Adams Street Partners is a global private markets investment manager with investments in more than thirty countries across five continents. Drawing on over 50 years of private markets experience, proprietary intelligence, and trusted relationships, Adams Street strives to generate actionable investment insights across market cycles. Adams Street is 100% employee-owned and manages $58 billion in assets under management. Adams Street has offices in Austin, Beijing, Boston, Chicago, London, Menlo Park, Munich, New York, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, and Tokyo.

Calamos Investments is a diversified global investment firm offering innovative investment strategies including alternatives, multi-asset, convertible, fixed income, equity, and sustainable equity. The firm offers strategies through separately managed portfolios, mutual funds, closed-end funds, private funds, and UCITS funds. Clients include major corporations, pension funds, endowments, foundations and individuals, as well as the financial advisors and consultants who serve them. Headquartered in Naperville, Illinois, Calamos Investments has offices in Chicago, New York, San Francisco, Milwaukee, Portland, and the Miami area. Important disclosures: http://bit.ly/39ExSuR

Hightower is a wealth management firm that provides investment, financial and retirement planning services to individuals, foundations and family offices, as well as 401K consulting and cash management services to corporations. Hightower’s capital solutions, operational support services, size and scale empower its vibrant community of independent-minded wealth advisors to grow their businesses and help their clients achieve their vision of “well-th. rebalanced.” Based in Chicago with advisors across the U.S., the firm operates as a registered investment advisor (RIA). Learn more about Hightower’s collaborative business model at www.hightoweradvisors.com.

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Amount's unified platform helps financial institutions modernize their operations, creating a seamless and intuitive banking experience for both customers and employees. Supporting both SMB and consumer lending, we streamline processes like loan origination and deposit account opening while integrating security and compliance. With innovative tools like our AI Policy Optimizer to refine credit strategies, Amount enables banks and credit unions to deliver the digital-first experiences today's customers expect. Power new and unique digital banking experiences in just months--not years.

𝐖𝐡𝐨 𝐖𝐞 𝐀𝐫𝐞: Magnetar Capital is a leading alternative asset manager with offices in Evanston, Ill., New York and London. Founded in 2005, Magnetar was built on the belief that new opportunities existed for a firm specifically structured to remove common barriers among various investment styles – like quantitative and qualitative, short and long duration, and beyond. Our core businesses – Alternative Credit & Fixed Income, Healthcare and Systematic Investing – enable us to cater to a wide-range of investor needs. We foster a collaborative work environment and supportive culture based on three key values: insight, integrity and passion. Philanthropically, we’re on a mission to ensure all high school students have access to a quality financial education course. 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐖𝐞 𝐃𝐨: At Magnetar, we are innovators, dissatisfied with the status quo. We seek to generate tomorrow’s diversifying return streams by challenging today’s investment norms. We embrace the creative challenge of building novel structures that produce positive outcomes for our investors. We work to identify differentiated opportunities where we believe we can create a strategic advantage by engineering and scaling our processes and attempting to structure our investments to be profitable across a wide array of outcomes. We are purposeful in how we source, analyze, structure and manage the risks of our investments as we seek to achieve quantifiable, repeatable results. As part of our mission to deliver diversifying returns to investors, we invest growth capital in businesses that drive the real economy. We invest across geographies, in both public and private transactions.

In March of 2002, Belvedere Trading emerged as Chicago’s newest market makers, soon to join the ranks of the Windy City’s elite proprietary trading firms. Armed with printouts of Excel workbooks and a team of eager minds, Belvedere established their place in the SPX pit on the floor of the Chicago Board Options Exchange. From the beginning, we began iteratively investing in our proprietary technology, first building our options model, then adapting it to work on a handheld computer, then committing to building our software systems from the ground up. Due to our ultramodern proprietary technology and risk management capabilities, Belvedere is able to quickly capitalize on inefficiencies in the marketplace. Our trading models and software systems are continually re-engineered, optimized, and maintained to stay on top of the industry. Belvedere Trading’s success and rapid growth are the direct results of our market experience, commitment to our mission and values, and relentless focus on the training and development of our team members. We attract an amazing caliber of diverse people; our team is comprised of over 200 individuals and we are actively expanding year over year. Since our inception, Team Belvedere has enjoyed low turnover and high referral rates due to our distinctive working atmosphere, well defined company culture, and high levels of entrepreneurship and empowerment. Our aggressive drive for efficiency, unique trading techniques, use of cutting edge technology, and most importantly, talented people, make us confident of our continued growth and success. Belvedere Trading continually looks forward to further expansion and facing the opportunities and challenges that the evolving financial markets will bring.

Gelber Group, a Chicago-based global proprietary trading company, has set the bar as one of the industry’s most innovative and enduring firms. Our success is driven by our relentless pursuit of new trading ideas and our emphasis on technological innovation. Established in 1982, Gelber Group is privately funded and trades on major exchanges in the United States and worldwide, operating in a variety of asset classes including foreign exchange, fixed income, equities, and commodities. Gelber has over 200 employees and offices located in Chicago, IL (headquarters); White Plains, NY; and Amsterdam/Gelber Coöperatief U.A.

At SPINS, we believe there’s more than meets the eye to data. As the leading provider of retail consumer insights, analytics and consulting for the Natural, Organic and Specialty Products Industry, we strive to transform raw data into intelligent and actionable business solutions. Our mission is to maximize the value of information for growing the natural products industry. We carry out our mission by providing information, insight and a common language for the industry with which to understand and analyze consumer, retail and broad marketplace dynamics.

In 1978, our founder discovered the power of earnings estimate revisions to enable profitable investment decisions. Today, that discovery is still the heart of the Zacks Rank. A wealth of resources for individual investors is available at www.zacks.com. For LinkedIN job seekers, Zacks.com is a good place to research prospective publicly traded employers for financial stability and growth prospects.

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Duraco is a leading manufacturer of specialty tapes, which are sold into highly attractive end markets including Point-of Purchase displays, appliances, transit packaging, construction, signage, and HVAC. Duraco’s application-specific tapes are strong alternatives to mechanical fasteners and traditional glues offering longevity, strength, efficiencies in customer’s assembly operations and breadth of substrates.