Philip J. Ippolito

Founded in 2006, CastleOak Securities LP is a minority-owned broker/dealer located in New York City with additional offices in Atlanta and Chicago. CastleOak engages in sales and trading, capital markets and financial advisory services. The firm offers expertise in primary and secondary market transactions and is structured to handle mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, valuations and general strategic assessments. Their clients range from Fortune 500 to middle-market corporations, institutional investors and financial sponsors. CastleOak is in partnership with Cantor Fitzgerald. They do not provide any internal research.

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.