Jeff Schollaert

Adams Natural Resources Fund, Inc. is a closed-end equity investment fund, which specializes in energy and natural resources stocks. Its objectives include the preservation of capital, attainment of reasonable income from investments, and an opportunity for capital appreciation. The company was founded in 1929 and is headquartered in Baltimore, MD.

Founded in 1981, Wall Street Access, formerly Wall Street Clearing Corp., is a broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm is a subsidiary of Wall Street Access Corp.. They offer a full array of investment services to corporations, hedge funds, pension funds, trust banks, investment advisors, money managers, mutual funds and high net-worth individuals. They focus on healthcare, mergers & acquisitions, oil & gas, electricity, natural gas, machinery/agribusiness, small-cap equities and special situations sectors. The firm's merger arbitrage research platform enables investors to track both historic and real-time deal information. Wall Street Access offers best-in-class execution through their fixed-income trading platform that creates aggressive, two-sided markets on a large inventory of fixed-income securities. The firm also provides their clients with traditional sales coverage. They provide execution services for investment grade corporate bonds, U.S. Treasuries and U.S. Agencies to a network of over 2,000 global customers. Wall Street Access' approach creates both market transparency and liquidity in a marketplace that has historically not been served with these essentials. The firm seeks to provide best-in-class trade execution and generation of trading ideas. They actively assess and manage risk while executing innovative transactions in a fast-paced and constantly changing global market. Wall Street Access provides superior service, expertise and speedy execution in equities, options, bonds and currencies. The firm seeks to achieve superior execution through electronic connectivity to multiple exchanges combined with their access to significant pools of liquidity. Wall Street Access is an agent, managing trading volumes and finding liquidity in a discrete manner for their institutional clients. The firm's Prime Brokerage division serves small and medium sized hedge fund clients. Wall Street Access maintains a large institutional equity and options desk, as well as a 35-person fixed-income desk. The firm acts as an introducing broker to Goldman Sachs Execution & Clearing LP. , L.P., so your investors can be confident their assets are safe and secure at a leading custodian. Wall Street Access is a member of NYSE, ISE and NASDAQ OMX, as well as other exchanges.

Wilmington Trust Investment Advisors, Inc. (WTIA) is a mutual fund manager and registered investment advisor headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware. The firm was founded as MTB Investment Advisors, Inc. in 1995 as the result of a merger between Allied Investment Advisors and M&T Asset Management. In 2012, their name was changed to WTIA. The firm is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Manufacturers and Traders Trust Co. (M&T Bank), which is owned by M&T Bank Corp. (NYSE: MTB). WTIA principally provides investment management services to institutional clients. They also serve as sub-advisor to the Wilmington Funds, a family of mutual funds.

Wachovia Securities LLC offered equity, fixed income, and structured products. It was founded in 2001 and was headquartered in St. Louis, MO.

American Capital Asset Management LLC (American Capital) is a private equity firm founded in 1986 by Malon Wilkus. The firm is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland.

Adams Natural Resources Funds, Inc. (Invt Mgmt) (dba Adams Funds) is the investment management division of Adams Natural Resources Funds, Inc. (NYSE: PEO), a closed-end investment company headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland. The firm was founded in 1929 under the name Petroleum Corp. of America. Their name was changed to Petroleum & Resources Corp. in 1977 and it was renamed Adams Natural Resources Fund, Inc. in 2015. Adams Funds manages a closed-end equity fund for various types of investors.

The Adams Diversified Equity Fund, Inc. (Mutual Fund Manager) (dba Adams Express) is the mutual fund management division of the Adams Diversified Equity Fund, Inc. (NYSE: ADX), an investment company headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland. The firm was founded in 1929 and formerly known as Adams Express Co. Adams Express manages a closed-end equity fund for various types of investors.