David Eric Archibald

Ford Motor Credit Co. LLC is an automotive finance company. The company provides dealer and customer finance to support the sale of Ford Motor Co.'s products. Its primary business is to finance Ford vehicles and supporting Ford's dealers. It offers automotive financing products to and through automotive dealers. The firm operates through the following segments: Consumer and Non-Consumer. The Consumer segment engages in products offering to individuals and businesses that finance the acquisition of vehicles from dealers for personal and commercial use. The Non-Consumer segment engages primarily to products offered to automotive dealers, like loans to dealers to finance the purchase of vehicle inventory, improvements to dealership facilities, working capital, and the purchase of dealership real estate. The company was founded in 1959 and is headquartered in Dearborn, MI.

Zacks Investment Management, Inc. (ZIM) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The firm was founded by Ben Zacks in 1992 and they are a subsidiary of Zacks Investment Research, Inc., which in turn is owned by The Greenwood Trust. ZIM manages separate accounts, public and private pooled investment vehicles, and is an adviser to a number of wrap-fee programs.

Founded in 1972 by Candace King, C.L. King & Associates, Inc. is a self-clearing, service-oriented broker/dealer and investment bank located in Albany, New York with additional offices in Boston and New York City. The firm delivers investment research, equity and fixed-income sales and trading, prime brokerage, investment advisor and clearing services to institutional and high net-worth clients and to other broker/dealers. For corporations, they underwrite securities and provide strategic advice in connection with mergers, acquisitions, strategic alternatives and valuation. C.L. King & Associates is a member of FINRA and the SIPC. C.L. King & Associates follows 120 names in 9 sectors. They seek to discover uncovered investment opportunities by seeking out companies that may be ignored by other Wall Street research providers and by identifying value and growth that may be unrecognized by institutional equity investors. The firm provides comprehensive trading services including capital commitment, market making and listed block positioning for their institutional equity clients. C.L. King & Associates' fixed-income group focuses on trading fixed-income securities, primarily in the secondary market. They offer a broad cross section of agencies, convertibles, investment-grade corporates, mortgage-backed securities, municipals, CDs and preferred stock to other broker/Dealers and institutional investors. The firm's investment banking group provides strategic M&A advice and capital raising services to emerging and mid-cap companies, both public and private. In addition, they act as a WBE underwriter in stock and bond offerings by large corporate issuers. C.L. King & Associates' corporate services group offers specialized services to assist corporate clients and their executives in handling delicate stock holding matters. Their services include guiding clients through restricted stock/rule 144 transactions, developing customized rule 10b5-1 trading plans and managing corporate share repurchase programs. The firm's equity research is based on a fundamental, value-oriented approach that focuses on small- and mid-cap companies. The firm offers research on the following sectors: special situations, building materials companies, specialty retail/apparel/footwear, industrials/cyclicals, restaurants/franchising, business services/staffing companies, telecommunications equipment and medical technology/devices/supplies.

Founded in 1999 by Gregory Berlacher, Emerging Growth Equities Ltd. is a full service investment banking and brokerage firm located in located in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. The firm focuses on small-cap, emerging technology companies in high growth industries including: medical technology, healthcare services, semiconductor design and engineering, software products and consulting services and special situations. Emerging Growth Equities is a member of the NASD and the SIPC.

Accredited Home Lenders Holding Co. provides mortgage banking services. The firm also engages in acquiring, holding, and managing real estate assets. It originates finances, sells, securitizes and services nonprime mortgage loans secured by single-family residence Flaherty. The company was founded by James A. Konrath and Ray Walton McKewon in September 1990 and is headquartered in Solano Beach, CA.

Harvard University engages in the provision of teaching and research. It has twelve degree-granting Schools in addition to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, offering a global education. The university was founded in 1636 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (GS&Co.) is a securities brokerage firm headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1927, the firm is a subsidiary of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS). GS&Co. provides services to help hedge funds manage risk, monitor portfolios, maintain liquidity and build their businesses. They offer clients access to global equity and derivatives markets, as well as foreign exchange, commodities, European Lefts, rates and credit across the Americas, Europe and Asia. The firm proactively monitors capital markets, searching for pockets of liquidity and news that may require changes to those strategies. Integration with the Goldman Sachs network gives clients access to the firm's sectored block trades and their insights into price discovery. Their electronic trading program provides clients with tools to manage their trades from pre-trade analytics to post-trade analysis.

Founded in 1986, Merriman Capital, Inc. is an SEC-registered broker/dealer and investment banking firm headquartered in San Francisco. The firm is a subsidiary of Merriman Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: MERR), a financial services firm that focuses on fast-growing companies and their institutional investors. Merriman provides advisory and investment banking, equity research, institutional services, corporate services and venture services primarily to corporate clients. Merriman Capital provides research, brokerage and trading services primarily to institutional clients. The firm offers a full range of specialized and integrated services including: equity research, specialized trade execution, equity capital markets, corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, sales and trading, market making, corporate and venture services, restructurings and strategic advisory services. Merriman Capital employs bottom-up, fundamental analysis of small-cap companies in select industries including clean technology, healthcare, technology and consumer/Internet/media. The firm also has expertise in emerging markets, with emphasis on emerging markets in China. Merriman Capital is known to engage in shareholder activist investment strategies. Merriman Capital is a member of the NASD, the SIPC and FINRA. The firm serves as an introducing broker/dealer for Pershing LLC. They do not hold or maintain funds or securities or provide clearing services for other broker/dealers.

Founded in 1996, Investrend, Inc. is a research firm headquartered in Forest Hills, New York. The firm specializes in an integrated, interdependent approach, pulling together research, broadcast, forums and information platforms as needed to create a cohesive platform to enhance events, conferences, research, publications and information distributions worldwide with services skewed toward shareholder empowerment.

Klein, DeNatale, Goldner, Cooper, Rosenlieb & Kimball LLP provides legal services. The firm's practice areas include agriculture, business, commercial litigation, employment counseling, litigation, estate, tax planning, oil, gas, and real estate. The company is headquartered in Bakersfield, CA.

The State Bar of California operates as an official attorney licensing agency. The non-profit company is based in San Francisco, CA. Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker has been the CEO of the company since 2015.

RedChip Independent is an investment research firm located in Maitland, Florida. The firm is a division of RedChip Companies, Inc. and their ultimate parent is ProManage, Inc., an advanced software development process management and consulting firm located in Burlingame, Massachusetts. RedChip provides fundamental research on small-cap companies. They seek to identify undervalued and underfollowed small-cap companies that are profitable or near term profitable and have effective management teams, mass appeal, growing sales and improving margins. After considering these factors and looking at expectations implied by the stock's current price, RedChip issues a strong buy, buy, speculative buy, hold or sell rating. The rating combines the firm's projection of the stock's performance, their assessment of the company's financial strength, their confidence in the company's management team and their confidence in their forecast.

Founded in 1995 by Steven Bathgate, GVC Capital LLC, formerly Bathgate Capital Partners LLC, is an investment banking firm and broker/dealer located Greenwood Village, Colorado. The firm focuses primarily on providing comprehensive investment banking services to underexposed and undervalued micro-cap companies. GVC Capital's brokerage services include retail investment sales, institutional equity and fixed-income securities. The firm is a member of FINRA and the SIPC. GVC Capital seeks to provide their retail clients with greater exposure to institutional investors as efficient means to raising capital in the form of institutional private placement financings and a variety of other investment products including municipal bonds, government securities, mutual funds, annuities, options and equities. The firm also offers accredited investors periodic opportunities to participate in private placements (Regulation D) and IPOs for select emerging growth companies. GVC Capital's accounts are maintained and cleared by First Southwest Company. The firm's fixed-income group seeks to provide their clients with best execution. They provide independent advisory services and research focusing on a diverse universe of fixed-income securities including corporate, government and municipal bonds, convertible and mortgage-backed securities and preferred stocks. GVC Capital's equity trading group focuses on efficient trade execution of micro-cap companies and identifying and creating liquidity in illiquid markets.

Part of Citigroup, Inc., Security Pacific Capital Markets Group, Inc. is a company that provides consumer lending services. The company is based in West Covina, CA. Security Pacific Capital Markets Group was acquired by Commercial Credit Co. from BankAmerica Corp. on July 31, 1997 for $1,600 million.

Part of Century City International Holdings Ltd., Aircoa Hotels Partners LP operates hotels. The company is based in Englewood, CO.

Check Point Software Technologies, Inc. engages in the design and development of cyber security solutions to corporate enterprises and governments. The firm offers cloud compliance and governance, branch virtual security, endpoint security, and enterprise mobile security. The company is headquartered in San Carlos, CA.

Established in 1977, Neidiger Tucker Bruner, Inc. (NTB) is a Denver-based brokerage and investment banking firm. NTB offers range of investment banking services include raising capital through the underwriting of Initial public offerings, secondary offerings and private placements. Primary department services include obtaining capital necessary to finance emerging growth and middle-market company's clients on a continuing basis. The corporate finance department seeks to tailor client needs, objectives and financial requirements to appropriate capitalization methods. NTB makes an underwriting commitment when the corporate finance department identifies a company which demonstrates growth potential, has experienced management and a financing can be structured which is equitable and attractive to both the company and investors. The firm is a member of FINRA and SPIC.