Andrew Alper

Lazard Freres & Co. LLC provides corporate advisory, capital market, and asset management services. The company was founded on April 13, 1992 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (GS&Co.) is a securities brokerage firm headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1927, the firm is a subsidiary of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS). GS&Co. provides services to help hedge funds manage risk, monitor portfolios, maintain liquidity and build their businesses. They offer clients access to global equity and derivatives markets, as well as foreign exchange, commodities, European Lefts, rates and credit across the Americas, Europe and Asia. The firm proactively monitors capital markets, searching for pockets of liquidity and news that may require changes to those strategies. Integration with the Goldman Sachs network gives clients access to the firm's sectored block trades and their insights into price discovery. Their electronic trading program provides clients with tools to manage their trades from pre-trade analytics to post-trade analysis.

The University of Chicago Medical Center includes a primary adult care hospital, a children's hospital, a women's health and maternity facility, an outpatient care center, a network of area physicians and a home health care organization. The company was founded in 1927 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Founded in 1989, FBR Capital Markets & Co., formerly Friedman, Billings, Ramsey & Co., is a broker/dealer headquartered in Arlington, Virginia with additional offices throughout the US. The firm is a subsidiary of FBR Capital Markets Holdings, Inc.. and their ultimate parent is FBR & Co. (NASDAQ: FBRC). In 2007, FBR Capital Markets Corp. was spun out from FBR Group as an independent investment bank, of which FBR Group retained majority ownership. FBR Capital Markets is registered with the SEC and is a member of FINRA, Nasdaq and the SIPC. FBR Capital Markets' Equity Sales & Trading Group provides institutional sales and trading services to over 1300 institutional accounts in the US, Canada, Europe, Australia and Asia. Their clients include mutual funds, hedge funds, money managers, endowments, foundations, banks, insurance companies and pension and profit sharing plans. They actively trade on behalf of clients and make markets in almost 1000 stocks traded on the NYSE, listed and OTC markets and trade more than $100 billion of securities on a per annum basis. In 2009, FBR Capital Markets began making markets in selected stocks traded on the London Stock Exchange and Euronext. In addition to agency trading in listed securities markets, they act as market-maker in Nasdaq and other OTC securities. They are one of the largest distributors of the shares of small- and mid-cap companies in public and private securities offerings and have deep trading expertise in the vertical industry groups in which the firm's investment banking and research teams specialize. These sectors include: (1) consumer (2) diversified industrials (3) energy and natural resources (4) financial institutions (5) healthcare (6) insurance (7) real estate (8) Washington policy analysis and (0) technology, media and telecommunications. The firm's analytical coverage includes a large number of small- and mid-cap companies in addition to large companies. Research is provided by FBR Capital Markets' research department, which is independent from the firm's investment banking department and has the sole authority to determine which companies receive research coverage and the recommendation contained in the coverage.

Lazard Group LLC provides financial advisory, asset management, and other financial services. The firm offers services related to mergers and acquisitions, strategic advisory, middle market advisory, capital markets and capital structure advisory, sovereign advisory, restructuring, and private fund advisory. The company was founded in 1840 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

FBR & Co. provides investment banking, merger and acquisition advisory, institutional brokerage and research services through its subsidiaries. The company operates through two segments: Capital Markets and Principal Investing. The Capital Markets segment includes investment banking, institutional brokerage and research. It also provides investment banking services, including capital raising and financial advisory services for its corporate issuer clients, and institutional brokerage services including sales, trading, research, and securities lending services to its institutional investor clients. The Principal Investing segment activities consist primarily of investments in merchant banking and other equity investments, investment funds and corporate debt investments. The company was founded in June 2006 and is headquartered in Arlington, VA.

New York City Economic Development Corp. provides economic assistance and financial incentives for large businesses. Its services include financing and incentives, strategic investments group, programs for entrepreneurs, programs for business recovery and resiliency, programs for nonprofits, workforce and local business programs, incubators and workspace resources, international programs, portnyc and central business districts. The company was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in New York, NY.