Valerie Sharice Grant

AllianceBernstein LP (AB) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and mutual fund manager headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee. Founded in 2000, the firm is owned by Equitable Financial Life Insurance Co., ultimately held by Equitable Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: EQH). AB provides investment advice to investment companies, pension and profit-sharing plans, banks and thrift institutions, trusts, estates, government agencies, charitable organizations, individuals, corporations and other business entities.

Abyssinian Development Corp. provides family support and business consulting services. It offers services to the community through programs like affordable housing development, family services and economic revitalization. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Ben & Jerry's Homemade, Inc. produces ice cream using dairy products from a Vermont dairy cooperative. Its products include ice cream, frozen yoghurt and novelties. The company was founded by Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield in 1978 and is headquartered in South Burlington, VT.

TL Ventures Inc (TL Ventures) is a venture capital subsidiary of Safeguard Scientifics, Inc. founded in 1988 by Robert Keith. The firm is headquartered in Wayne, Pennsylvania.

McKinsey & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It specializes in design, marketing and sales, analytics, operations, transformation and restructuring, risk, strategy and corporate finance, and sustainability and resource productivity. The company was founded by James O. McKinsey in 1926 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Jazz at Lincoln Center, Inc. develops programs for jazz appreciation. The firm’s productions include concerts, national and international tours, residencies, a jazz hall of fame and concert series, weekly national radio programs, television broadcasts, recordings, publications, an annual high school jazz band competition and festival, a band director academy, jazz appreciation curriculum for students, music publishing, children’s concerts and classes, lectures, adult education courses, student and educator workshops and interactive websites. The company was resisted on March 13, 1996 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Nuveen Asset Management LLC (NAM) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The firm was founded in 2011 and is a subsidiary of Nuveen Fund Advisors LLC, which is ultimately owned by TIAA Board of Governors. NAM provides investment advisory and sub-advisory services to a broad range of individual and institutional clients, such as open-end and closed-end investment companies and other pooled investment vehicles.