John Barnidge

Piper Sandler & Co. (Broker) (PSC-Broker) is the full-service brokerage division of Piper Sandler & Co., a financial service firm headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. They are a subsidiary of Piper Sandler Companies (NYSE: PIPR). The firm was founded in 1969 and previously known as Piper Jaffray & Co. They became Piper Sandler & Co. when Piper Jaffray Companies and Sandler O’Neill & Partners, L.P. merged to become Piper Sandler Companies in 2020. PSC-Broker provides brokerage and investment banking services to financial institutions, corporations and other financial investors. Their core focus sectors are Agriculture, renewables & cannabis, Business services, Chemicals & Materials, Consumer, Diversified industrials & services, Energy, Financial services, financial sponsors, Healthcare, and Technology.

Founded in 1988, Sandler O'Neill & Partners LP is a broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm is a subsidiary of Sandler O'Neill & Partners Corp. and their ultimate parent is SOP Holdings LLC. Sandler O'Neill & Partners' Equity Sales & Trading team seeks to enhance liquidity, execute complex transactions, distribute securities and provide institutional investor exposure for hundreds of financial institutions. Sandler O'Neill is a market maker for over 425 NASDAQ financial stocks and trades equities on all active exchanges including the NYSE, NASDAQ, OTC Bulletin Board and Pink Sheets. They work with CEOs, CFOs and management teams on corporate buybacks, portfolio valuations, rebalancings and liquidations. Sandler O'Neill publishes detailed equity research on approximately 270 financial services companies. They primarily cover small- and mid-sized companies that are not widely followed by large Wall Street firms. Their research coverage focuses on the following industries: (1) banks and thrifts (2) specialty finance and credit card companies (3) asset management (4) e-Finance (5) investment banking firms and broker/dealers (6) REITS (7) mortgage REITs and (8) insurance.

Seymour Pierce Ltd. (SP) is an independent Great Britain-based brokerage firm which was established in 1998. SP advises growing privately-owned businesses and publicly quoted UK companies, with a focus on AIM-listed companies. They provide stockbroking, corporate finance, private equity and M&A advisory services and specialize in raising funds for small- and medium-sized UK companies, either facilitating private equity investing or issuing securities. The firm provides sellside analysis to asset managers in Great Britain and internationally, including fund managers, hedge funds and private equity firms. Their research covers a range of sectors including retail, real estate, healthcare, media and entertainment, resources, software, telecommunications, financials, business services and special situations. SP also advises private clients and provides administrative support. They manage equity portfolios on a discretionary basis and provide equity trading accounts, both advisory and execution-only.

Banker's Toolbox, Inc. engages in the provision of bank secrecy act and anti-money laundering compliance solutions. It solutions include AML (anti-money laundering) compliance software, fraud prevention, CRE (commercial real estate) loan stress testing, secure wire transfer automation, suspicious activity monitoring services. The company was founded by Daniel Cho in 2000 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.