Charles Strauzer

Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC (Credit Suisse Securities USA) is the broker/dealer division of Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, an investment banking company headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1998 and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Credit Suisse (USA), Inc., ultimately owned by Credit Suisse Group AG (SWX: CSGN) in Switzerland. Credit Suisse Securities USA offers a suite of equities, solutions and credit products and services which includes global securities sales, trading and execution, prime brokerage and comprehensive investment research. Their clients include financial institutions, corporations, governments, institutional investors, such as pension funds and hedge funds, and private individuals around the world.

Carnegie Mellon University is an American school that operates as a college or university. It is located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Cowen & Co. LLC is a SEC-registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2004 and is a subsidiary of Cowen Holdings, Inc., ultimately owned by The Toronto-Dominion Bank (TSE: TD) in Canada. Cowen & Co. offers industry-focused investment banking for growth-oriented companies, domain knowledge-driven research and a sales and trading platform for institutional investors. Their institutional sales and trading business serves both equity and fixed-income clients. Sales and trading execution platform is structured around the following key verticals: (1) healthcare (2) technology, telecommunications and media (TMT) (3) REITs and financials (4) aerospace and defense (5) consumer and (6) alternative energy.

Condor Capital Management, dba Condor Capital Wealth Management (Condor Capital), is an employee-owned, SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Martinsville, New Jersey. The firm was founded by Kenneth Schapiro in 1988. Condor Capital provides discretionary and/or non-discretionary investment advisory services on a fee-only basis to individuals, business entities, trusts, pension and profit-sharing plans, estates and charitable organizations.

Raymond James & Associates, Inc. (RJA) is a registered broker-dealer headquartered in St. Petersburg, Florida. The firm was founded in 1962 and is a subsidiary of Raymond James Financial, Inc. (NYSE: RJF), a diversified holding company. RJA offers a full array of capital markets services, strategic advice and planning for institutional investors.

Markston International LLC (Markston) is an independent, employee-owned registered investment advisor headquartered in White Plains, New York. The firm was founded in 1999 and is the successor to Markston Investment Management, which was established in 1981. Markston provides discretionary investment management services to institutional and high net worth clients and investors through separately managed accounts and a domestic mutual fund in a sub-advisory capacity.

TimesSquare Capital Management LLC (TimesSquare) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2000 by Grant Babyak, Ian Rosenthal, and Stephen Green. They are a subsidiary of TimesSquare Manager Member LLC, which is owned by Affiliated Managers Group, Inc. (NYSE: AMG). TimesSquare provides investment advisory services to various types of institutional investors as well as certain high net-worth individuals and in limited instances to modeled portfolios.

Founded in 1990 by Alan Donenfeld, Bristol Investment Group, Inc. is a private investment firm that focuses on investing in and raising capital for high growth and special situation public and private companies, in industries such as communications, information technology, healthcare, manufacturing and other technology based businesses. They provide a full array of trading and execution services for their clients. They do not provide any internal research. Bristol is located in New York City.

Guggenheim Securities LLC is a SEC-registered broker-dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1999 and is a subsidiary of Links Holdings LLC, ultimately held by Guggenheim Partners LLC. Guggenheim Securities’ specializations include the sales and trading of fixed-income securities and sophisticated structured products. The firm offers in-depth analysis and expert execution of trading opportunities to large institutional investors and asset originators. They offer sales and trading services relating to a wide range of instruments.

Founded in 2000 by Glenn Grossman, Dinosaur Financial Group LLC is an institutional broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm is a subsidiary of Dinosaur Group Holdings LLC and is a member of FINRA, SIPC, MSRB and NFA. They were formerly known as Dinosaur Securities LLC. The firm provides international institutional brokering services that focus on equities, bonds, structured products, financial futures, commodities and foreign exchange. Dinosaur Financial Group Securities also provides economic consulting and investment banking, trade and structured finance, fairness opinions, debt and equity capital raising and deal negotiation services.

ACK Asset Management LLC (ACK) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut. The firm was founded by Richard Meisenberg and John Reilly in 2005. ACK serves as the investment adviser to several private funds.

Founded in 2008, Odeon Capital Group LLC is an independent full-service broker/dealer located in New York City. The firm provides advice and execution on fundamental value and catalyst-driven situations through sales and trading, research, investment banking and asset management services. Odeon Capital Group provides services related to fixed-income securities including corporate securities, ABS, RMBS, Auction Rate securities and other structured products. The firm serves institutional clients. Odeon Capital Group is a member of FINRA, the SIPC and the MSRB. Odeon Capital Group has expertise in both traditional and esoteric assets. The firm has placed both large and small volume transactions in every asset class. They seek to maximize value for their clients through in-depth analyses of sectors, asset classes and individual securities that are hard to value or trade. The firm's Structured Products and Corporate Groups focus on institutional sales, trading and analytics of secondary structured products, esoteric assets and special situations.

Founded in 2008, Northcoast Research Partners LLC is an independent, full-service, institutional equity research firm located in Cleveland, Ohio. The firm is a subsidiary of Northcoast Research Holdings LLC. Their research coverage include: business services, consumer, healthcare, industrial/basic materials and accounting/tax policy.

Berenberg Capital Markets LLC (BCM) is a broker-dealer firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2011 and is a subsidiary of Berenberg Americas LLC, ultimately held by Joh. Berenberg, Gossler & Co. KG in Germany. BCM provides equity execution services to institutional and corporate clients.

Needham & Co. LLC (Needham) is a registered investment advisor and broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1985 and is a wholly-owned indirect subsidiary of The Needham Group, Inc. Needham provides corporate and institutional clients with high quality research, corporate access, capital markets and trading execution services in both the public and private markets, with an emphasis on growth companies.

Deloitte & Touche LLP engages in the provision of audit, advisory, financial advisory, tax, and consulting services. The company was founded on March 7, 1995 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Fordham University provides college and university. It offers undergraduate colleges and graduate & professional schools. The company was founded in 1841 and is headquartered in Bronx, NY.

K&F Industries, Inc. engages in the design, development, manufacture, and distribution of aircraft wheels, brakes, brake control systems, and flexible bladder fuel tanks for commercial transport, general aviation, and military aircraft worldwide. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in White Plains, NY.

CIBC Capital Partners Venture Group (CIBC Capital Partners) is a private equity & venture capital arm of Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce founded in 1989. The firm is headquartered in Toronto, Canada with offices across the globe.

Epoch Investment Partners, Inc. (dba TD Epoch) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded by Bill Priest and David Pearl in 2004. They are a subsidiary of TD Bank US Holding Co., ultimately owned by The Toronto-Dominion Bank (NYSE; TSX: TD) in Canada. TD Epoch provides US, non-US and global investment strategies to institutional and intermediary clients.

Barclays Capital, Inc. is a registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1997 and is a subsidiary of Barclays Group US, Inc., ultimately owned by Barclays plc (LON: BARC) in Great Britain. Barclays Capital provides large corporate, government and institutional clients a full spectrum of prime brokerage services which includes equities and fixed income financing, OTC Clearing, Futures and Foreign Exchange Prime Brokerage and access to industry insights and analytics from their Strategic Consulting team.

Haidar Capital Management LLC (Haidar) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in Pearl River, New York. The firm was founded in 1997 and is owned, indirectly, by Said N. Haidar and a related family trust through Cantabrigian Partnership LP, the sole member. Haidar manages and provides discretionary investment advisory services to the Haidar Funds.

J. Safra Asset Management Corp. (JSAM) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and wealth management firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2004 and is a subsidiary of Safra New York Corp., which is owned by SNBNY Holdings Ltd. in Gibraltar. JSAM provides portfolio management services to high-net-worth individuals, corporations and other business entities, private pooled investment vehicles and other US and international institutions.