Michael A. Plodwick

Bessemer Investment Management LLC (BIM) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2001 and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bessemer Trust Co., NA (BTNA), a national banking association, which in turn, is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Bessemer Group, Inc. (BGI). BIM provides advisory services to investment companies and banking institutions.

UBS Securities LLC is an investment bank and registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1998 as UBS Warburg LLC. They are a subsidiary of UBS Americas Holding LLC, ultimately held by UBS Group AG (SWX: UBSG, NYSE: UBS) in Switzerland. UBS Securities is a primary dealer in US Government securities and provides a full range of investment banking services which includes corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, trading and sales, fixed-income, equity research, private banking, underwriting and prime brokerage operations. The firm also provides advisory services and access to capital markets for corporate, institutional, intermediary and alternative asset management clients.

A subsidiary of Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc., Lehman Brothers, Inc. is a broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. They provide global equity and fixed research. The equity research department covers more than 100 sectors. They use a fundamental, quantitative, strategic and tactical research approach. In addition to these Lehman has also developed special products, such as 10 uncommon values and 10 uncommon eurovalues.

Citigroup Global Markets, Inc. (Broker) (CGMI-Broker) is the broker/dealer division of Citigroup Global Markets, Inc., an investment bank headquartered in New York City with additional offices across the US. The firm was founded in 2004 and is a subsidiary of Citigroup Financial Products, Inc., ultimately held by Citigroup, Inc. (NYSE: C). CGMI-Broker covers all market capitalizations of the major global indices and provides macro and quantitative analysis of global markets and sector trends. Their core focus of the group is to help investing clients make informed decisions by providing value-added, independent, insightful analysis.

Blaylock & Co., Inc. is a full-service institutional securities firm providing investment banking, capital markets, sales and trading and other related services to large-cap and emerging growth to middle-market corporations and sponsors. Blaylock's Debt Capital Markets group is responsible for soliciting, structuring and executing debt and related product businesses, including new issues of both public and private debt. In both debt and equity, they provide clients with a multi-tiered distribution platform that specializes in Tier II and III investor relationships in addition to large Tier I accounts. The Equity Capital Markets group undertakes the origination, structuring, marketing and pricing of public offerings and private placements of equity and equity-related securities. They also advise institutional clients on financing strategies in the context of merger and acquisition activity and public market restructurings and monetization programs. Blaylock was founded in 1993 by Ronald E. Blaylock and was incorporated as Blaylock & Co. in April 2005. Headquartered in New York City, Blaylock is a member of the NASD and the SIPC.