Cathy Harris Reese

Founded in 2006, Empire Asset Management Co. is a full service brokerage firm located in New York City. The firm is a subsidiary of Empire Investment Group Holdings LLC. They specialize in providing investment strategies for institutions, corporate clients and high net-worth individuals. The firm provides comprehensive solutions to their clients on mergers, acquisitions, restructuring, investment banking, and wealth management.

Founded in 1946, R.F. Lafferty & Co., Inc. is a brokerage firm and registered investment advisor located in New York City. The firm's research focuses on small- and mid-cap companies.

Founded in 2010 by James Giordano, Opus Group Financial is an independent, privately-owned, investment research and advisory firm located in New York City with an additional office in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. The firm provides in-depth, unbiased, equity research, financial advice and execution services to private, micro- and small-cap companies

Founded in 1989, Kern, Suslow Securities, Inc. is a full-service SEC-registered broker/dealer located in New York City. The firm offers a variety of services including institutional equity sales and trading services, investment banking, research analysis, options trading, fixed-income trading, mutual funds and insurance products. Kern, Suslow Securities clears their business on a fully-disclosed basis through Penson Financial Services, Inc. They are a member of FINRA and the SIPC.

Southridge Investment Group LLC is registered broker/dealer located in Ridgefield, Connecticut with an additional office in New York City. They are a subsidiary of Southridge Capital Management LLC and their ultimate parent is Sunodia Partners LP. The firm provides a full array of trading and execution services for their clients. They do not provide any internal research.

Founded by James Giordano in 1999, J. Giordano Securities Group, Inc. is an independent, privately-owned full-service investment banking and brokerage firm headquartered in New York City. The firm is also known as NewOak Capital Markets LLC. They provide a range of investment banking services for small-cap and middle-market companies including private capital, initial and follow-on public equity offerings, convertible debt and preferred stock offerings, high yield offerings and M&A advisory services. J. Giordano Securities Group also provides equity and fixed-income research to institutional clients. The firm's research focuses on the following sectors: (1) industrial services (2) conventional energy (3) regional and special situations (4) shipping (5) healthcare (6) homeland defense and (7) business services. J. Giordano Securities Group is a member of the NASD and SIPC.

Founded in 1995, Capital Growth Financial LLC a broker/dealer that provides investment and merchant banking, retail and institutional brokerage, alternative investments, insurance and annuities and proprietary research to corporate clients and individual investors. Headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida, they provide technical and fundamental research for their clients. They are a member of the NASD and SIPC.