Matthew P. Laing

Avondale Partners LLC is an independent broker/dealer headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee with additional offices across the US. The firm was founded by Robert Shepherd and Philip Krebs in 2001. Avondale Partners provides financial advisory services as well as equity and fixed income underwriting and private placement services to public and private companies throughout the US, Canada and Europe. They focus on middle-market companies in the healthcare sector.

Founded in 2007, IronOak Advisors LLC is a registered investment advisor located in Richmond, Virginia. The firm manages investments for endowments, foundations, not-for-profit organizations, Taft-Hartley plans, pension plans and sub-advised mutual funds, common trust funds, collective investment trusts and variable investment trusts. IronOak Advisors is an independently-managed subsidiary of RidgeWorth Capital Management, Inc. Prior to 2008, IronOak Advisors was known as the Core Equity Division of Trusco Capital Management Inc., which became RidgeWorth in 2008. IronOak Advisors' ultimate parent is SunTrust Banks, Inc. (NYSE: STI).

Jefferies LLC is a global investment bank and institutional securities firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1962 and is a subsidiary of Jefferies Group LLC, ultimately held by Jefferies Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: JEF). Jefferies provides corporate clients with research and execution services in equity, fixed income, and foreign exchange markets, as well as a full range of investment banking services such as underwriting, mergers and acquisitions, restructuring and recapitalization, and other advisory services, with all businesses operating in the Americas, Europe and Asia.