Matrix Capital Management is an investment management firm which manages private investment funds in a concentrated portfolio of high conviction investments, primarily in public companies. Matrix Capital was co-founded in 1999 by David Goel and is based outside of Boston, Massachusetts.

Aurora Management Partners has grown to become one of the country's most professional and respected turnaround consulting firms. We specialize in Business Consulting Services, Creditor Services, Investor Services and Corporate Governance Advisory Services with a staff that is capable of handling assignments from the simple and straightforward to those involving public or private companies facing multi-faceted and complex financial, operational and strategic issues. From its start in Atlanta, Aurora now includes regional offices in Charlotte, Chicago, and Cleveland. Each office is staffed with senior level, seasoned executives and consultants who possess the knowledge, skills, vision and integrity to make an immediate and positive contribution to every client engagement. It’s our ability to RETHINK situations, REACT quickly and generate tangible RESULTS that truly sets us apart from other consulting firms. We encourage you to ask any of our clients, whether it's debtors, creditors or owners, what they think of our approach and our performance.

Thiel Capital is an investment firm founded by Peter Thiel. Located in West Hollywood, California, Thiel Capital provides strategic and operational support for Peter’s many investment initiatives and entrepreneurial endeavors. Related organizations include Clarium, Founders Fund, Mithril, Valar Ventures, and The Thiel Foundation.

Halbert Hargrove provides a proven, goals-directed planning process for wealthy families and individuals. Our wealth advisory and fiduciary investment services help our clients preserve and grow their wealth through access to preferred investment vehicles, extensive market experience, and proven strategies that we’ve continually refined since our founding in 1933. Halbert Hargrove is recognized as one of the top wealth advisory firms in the country; our successful client relationships are due in no small part to our commitment to transparency, fiduciary best practices, and innovative culture. We never compromise on our values or process, so our clients can be confident about maintaining their lifestyle, contributing to their community, and preparing the next generation for continued success. We believe in "Investing to integrate your money and your life℠"​. Halbert Hargrove achieved Investment Advisor Certification from the Centre for Fiduciary Excellence (CEFEX). CEFEX is an independent organization that works with investment advisory firms around the globe to assess their investment processes and systems—and their adherence to the highest standards of fiduciary best practices. Certification is a relatively rare distinction; we are the 50th investment advisory firm in the world to have earned it. CEFEX's mission is to improve risk management for both institutional and retail investors.

Founded in 2005, Karlin Asset Management, Inc. is a private investment firm that takes a long term, strategic focus towards investment opportunities and the management of evergreen fund structures. Karlin is a private investment firm headquartered in Los Angeles, California. We employ a multi-asset class framework to invest opportunistically across a variety of strategies including: - Value Securities, -Private Equity, -Real Estate, - Natural Resources, - Venture Capital, - Direct Lending. The company employs a multi-asset class framework to invest opportunistically across a variety of strategies, including value securities, distressed real estate, direct lending and natural resources. The company has received considerable recognition and awards as an innovator in the asset management and family office investing arenas including "Institutional Investor Family Office of the Year"​ and "Private Asset Management Family Office of the Year"​. Affiliates of Karlin Asset Management include: Karlin Ventures, an early-stage venture capital fund, Karlin Real Estate, an investment firm targeting opportunistic acquisitions and financing of commercial, hospitality and multi-family properties across the United States, Calmwater Capital (formerly Karlin Real Estate Lending), a real estate lending venture and Highview Capital, an opportunistic private equity investment vehicle. Karlin Asset Management is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

In LA, you have numerous wealth management firms to choose from. We’re quite different from most of them. Since we established Westmount in 1990, our vision has been clear. Be an incubator for innovative thinking, whether that’s being one of the earliest firms to adopt a business model that puts clients’ interests first, embracing alternative investments like real estate and private debt, or providing leading-edge financial planning. There’s something else: our people. Westmount strives to be a magnet for the top young talent in wealth management by providing thoughtful mentoring, a supportive environment for growth and the freedom to pursue fresh new ideas on behalf of our clients. That mindset has allowed us to assemble one of the sharpest, most dynamic advisory teams in LA. Ultimately, our goal is to be LA’s “go to” firm. So far, so good. Our clients represent a broad cross-section of the city’s most successful people. Our exceptional team continues to grow. If what we’re about speaks to you, we should talk.

Vance Street is a Los Angeles based private equity firm with $1bn AUM that acquires and builds engineered solutions companies in the medical, life science, industrial, and aerospace and defense markets. We partner with companies that solve difficult problems for blue chip customers and our passion helping transform excellent companies into a larger strategic players within their industry. Over the past three decades the partners at Vance have acquired and built more than 100 companies in these industry segments.

Founded in 1992, Seidler Equity Partners (SEP) is a private investment firm with offices in both the U.S. and Australia. The firm provides long-term equity capital to middle-market founder-owned and family-owned businesses, in partnership with business owners and management teams. For more information, please visit us at www.sepfunds.com

Index Fund Advisors, Inc. (IFA) is a fee-only advisory and wealth management firm that provides risk-appropriate, returns-optimized, globally-diversified and tax-managed investment strategies with a fiduciary standard of care. Founded in 1999, IFA is a Registered Investment Adviser with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that provides investment advice to individuals, trusts, corporations, non-profits, and public and private institutions. Based in Irvine, California, IFA manages individual and institutional accounts, including IRA, 401(k), 403(b), profit sharing, pensions, endowments and all other investment accounts. IFA also facilitates IRA rollovers from 401(k)s and 403(b)s. The value of IFA extends beyond superior investment advice. As a holistic financial partner, IFA helps guide investors through all life and retirement stages. Our Wealth Advisors take a personalized approach to matching people with portfolios while providing a full-range of wealth services for a better overall client experience. IFA avoids the futile, speculative, and unnecessary cost-generating activities of stock, time, manager, and style picking. Contrarily, IFA employs a disciplined, quantitative approach that emphasizes broad diversification and consistent exposure to the structural trends of global publicly-traded markets. IFA bases its investment strategy on the highly respected research indexes designed by Eugene Fama and Kenneth French, incorporating 87 years of IFA Index Portfolio risk and return data, third generation index fund designs and 30 years of refined passive trading techniques.

Pacific Income Advisers is an established and independent, employee-owned investment advisory firm, for institutional and private clients worldwide. Since PIA’s inception in 1986, the firm has managed traditional investment grade fixed income strategies utilizing a fundamental investment approach that has produced attractive “risk-adjusted” returns. As a core bond manager, PIA’s investment discipline is built on yield curve analysis. PIA’s “alpha thesis” is driven by the firm’s significant intellectual capital committed to risk measurement. Additionally, PIA benefits from strong analytical competencies in mortgage-backed securities as certain PIA investment professionals are also the senior management team of Anworth (NYSE: ANH), a publicly traded mortgage REIT.

Empyrean Capital Partners, LP is an event-oriented, multi-strategy investment manager founded in 2004. Empyrean is headquartered in Los Angeles, with an office in New York.