Bob Ruland

Founded in 1982, Atalanta Sosnoff Management LLC (ASM) is a wealth management firm and registered investment advisor located in New York City. The firm is wholly-owned by Atalanta Sosnoff Capital LLC (ASC), a registered investment advisor retained by ASM as the sub advisor on all of their clients’ accounts. All investment decisions made on behalf of ASM's client accounts are made by members of ASC’s Investment Committee. ASM provides investment advisory services on a discretionary and non-discretionary basis to provides investment advisory services on a discretionary and non-discretionary basis to separately managed accounts including individuals, trusts, tax exempt funds (such as pension and profit sharing plans), charitable organizations (such as endowments and foundations), State and Municipal government entities and corporations.

Atalanta Sosnoff Capital LLC (ASC) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded by Martin T. Sosnoff in 1981. ASC provides investment advisory services on a discretionary basis to separately managed accounts which includes individuals, trusts, tax exempt funds (such as pension, annuity and profit-sharing plans), charitable organizations (such as endowments and foundations), State and Municipal government entities and corporations.

Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, Banc of America Securities (BAS) is the investment banking subsidiary of Bank of America Corp (NYSE: BAC). The firm provides both the domestic and international equity and investment banking markets, and pursues a strategy pioneered by Citigroup that combines corporate lending with investment banking advice and services. They provide high-yield debt underwriting and leveraged finance, in addition to industry coverage groups such as healthcare, media and telecom, financial institutions, real estate and gaming. BAS also does a significant amount of work for Financial Sponsors, or private equity firms, often financing leveraged transactions. Following the strategy of Goldman Sachs, the firm lacks a standalone mergers and acquisitions department, instead employing mergers and acquisitions senior bankers throughout the industry coverage groups. The firm is registered as a broker/dealer with the SEC, is a member of the NYSE, and the NASD. The use of Banc in the BAS's name is indicative of the fact that the company is not a bank, and their deposits and other holdings are not insured by the FDIC.

A subsidiary of Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc., Lehman Brothers, Inc. is a broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. They provide global equity and fixed research. The equity research department covers more than 100 sectors. They use a fundamental, quantitative, strategic and tactical research approach. In addition to these Lehman has also developed special products, such as 10 uncommon values and 10 uncommon eurovalues.