Patrick Forkin

Tejas Securities Group, Inc. is a wholly-owned subsidiary and a primary business operating unit of Tejas, Inc. (OTC BB: TEJS). Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Tejas is a registered broker/dealer offering full-service brokerage and investment banking services. They were founded in 1994. The firm's core services include: proprietary research on distressed debt, emerging growth equities and special situation securities, trading and other brokerage services to value-based institutional and retail investors active in fixed-income and equity instruments and corporate finance and strategic advisory services to middle-market companies within the target industries. Tejas offers a broad product offering specializing in yield-oriented and value securities. Their product offering includes, equities, corporate bonds, bank debt issued by distressed companies, MBS, ABS, government and government agency securities, municipal securities, options and mutual funds. The research group analyzes many industries including the wireless and wire-line telecommunications, cable, satellite, transportation, energy and municipal securities sectors. Tejas is a member of the NASD and the SIPC.

Deloitte & Touche LLP engages in the provision of audit, advisory, financial advisory, tax, and consulting services. The company was founded on March 7, 1995 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

DayStar Technologies, Inc. is a development stage enterprise. It develops a proprietary thin film deposition technology for solar photovoltaic products, utilizes a proprietary one step sputter deposition process and has manufactured a commercial scale deposition tool to apply efficiency copper indium gallium diselenide material over large area glass substrates in a continuous fashion. The company was founded in February 1997 and is headquartered in Kelowna, Canada.

Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. LP (KKR) is a private equity subsidiary of KKR & Co. Inc founded in 1976 by Henry Kravis, George Roberts and Jerome Kohlberg. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Forstmann Little & Co. (Forstmann Little) is an independent private equity firm founded in 1978. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Arq Ltd. refines coal and coal waste into pure hydrocarbon. Its product portfolio include Arq Fuel Oil which is a micro-fine purified hydrocarbon product for blending with residual fuel oil for the utility market; Arq Marine is a micro-fine purified hydrocarbon product for blending with bunker fuel for the marine market; Arq Crude is a micronized hydrocarbon product for blending with crude oil to maximize profitability for oil refineries; Arq Met is a solid refined hydrocarbon pellet for blending with metallurgical coals to enhance product performance in the steel-making process and Arq Thermal is a solid purified hydrocarbon pellet for blending with thermal coals. The company was founded by Julian Alexander McIntyre and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.