Christopher Gardner

International Rescue Committee, Inc. provides rescue and emergency services. It provides services like emergency relief, rehabilitation, protection of human rights, post-conflict development, resettlement services, and oppression. The company was founded in 1933 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Bear, Stearns & Co., Inc. is a global investment banking, securities trading and brokerage firm located in New York City with additional offices in Dallas, Boston and San Francisco. The firm is a subsidiary Bear Sterns Cos., Inc. (NYSE: BSC). Their equity research team consists of senior analysts located throughout the world. In addition to domestic coverage, they have research teams focusing on Latin America, Asia and Europe. The analysts use a bottom-up approach to stock selection. The Bear Stearns fixed-income research department provides coverage of every sector of the fixed-income universe. The financial analytics and structured transactions group (F.A.S.T) provides investment research, fixed-income portfolio management and analytical systems, trading technology and general financial expertise. The group also provides a broad range of services to financial institutions including asset-liability management, balance sheet restructuring, receivables-based financing analysis, security and portfolio analysis, peer analysis, and historical and real-time market-based information.

Founded by Chris Gardner in 1987, Gardner Rich LLC, formerly Gardner Rich & Co., is an NASD-registered broker/dealer located in Chicago. The firm's core business is institutional securities brokerage services, but they also participate in corporate underwriting. Their brokerage services include trading in global markets through both ordinary and ADR form. Gardner Rich specializes in providing services to public pension funds and Taft-Hartley plans. The firm provides a full array of trading and execution services for their clients. They do not provide any internal research.