Bennett C. Weintraub

InThought Research Group provides analytical, forecasting, and competitive intelligence services that support strategic and tactical decisions of life science and financial firms. The firm offers competitive monitoring report, conference coverage plus, approvability index and revenue forecasts, and Ad Hoc projects services. The company is headquartered in Pacific Palisades, CA.

Founded in 1990, Capital One Southcoast, Inc., formerly Hibernia Southcoast Capital, is a full-service investment banking firm and broker/dealer located in New Orleans, Louisiana with an additional office in Houston, Texas. The firm is a subsidiary of Capital One Financial Corp. (NYSE: COF). They are provide corporate finance, equity research, institutional equity sales and trading services to private and mid-market public companies. The firm offers broad coverage of over 1,000 domestic and foreign institutional accounts for mutual funds, pension funds, hedge funds, insurance firms and other institutional investors. Capital One Southcoast's analysts provide coverage across the energy sector including energy infrastructure, oilfield services and oil & gas exploration and production.

Variant Trading Institutional Group, Inc. operates as a brokerage firm. It specializes in the business of buying and selling securities such as stocks, bonds, mutual funds and other investment products. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Boca Raton, FL.

Founded in 1984, Noble Financial Capital Markets is a broker/dealer headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida. The firm is a subsidiary of Noble Financial Group, Inc. Noble Financial Capital Markets' sales & trading team provides strategic insight and reliable solutions to nearly 500 of the dominant small-cap money managers in North America. They are members FINRA, SIPC and MSRB. Noble Financial Capital Markets offers a full array of investment services with a particular focus on under-followed, undervalued, out-of-favor small-cap emerging growth companies. Their research coverage universe includes healthcare, business services & software, defense/defense technology, energy, enterprise hardware, and media & entertainment.

Founded in 1989, PCS Securities, Inc. is an SEC-registered broker/dealer located in Edmonds, Washington. The firm is an introducing broker and clears securities transactions on a fully-disclosed basis with an independent clearing organization. PCS Securities provides independent research and directed brokerage arrangements for investment advisors, money managers and plan sponsors.