Daniele M. Seitz

Dudack Research Group LLC is a research firm located in New York City. They are a subsidiary of Wellington Shields & Co. LLC and their ultimate parent is Wellington Shields Holdings LLC. The firm provides economic, fundamental, quantitative and technical strategy and tools for institutional money managers, hedge funds, mutual funds and pension plans in the U.S. and abroad.

Founded in 2004, Cowen Securities is an investment banking firm and broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm is a subsidiary of the Cowen Group. They were formerly known as Dahlman Rose & Co. Cowen Securities provides value-added research, trading and advisory services to clients in the US and abroad. The firm focuses on growth industries that are the direct beneficiaries of global trade, infrastructure development and urbanization. Their research focuses on various distinct verticals within the global natural resources supply chain including: metals/mining, agriculture, chemicals, oil & gas exploration and production, electric utilities and surface transportation. Cowen Securities follows a variety of companies across geographies, market-caps and strategies. The firm employs a top-down approach that focuses on global themes and macro trends within these sectors. They look for drivers that create opportunities for well-positioned companies.

Maxcor Financial, Inc. is a broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. They provide research and execution to the institutional money management community, corporations with publicly-traded securities and other institutional clients. They specialize in municipal securities, corporate bonds (including high grade and high yield), convertible securities and equities. Their analysts provide trading ideas and market insights to the client base. Maxcor is a subsidiary of Maxcor Financial Group, Inc.

UBS Securities LLC is an investment bank and registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1998 as UBS Warburg LLC. They are a subsidiary of UBS Americas Holding LLC, ultimately held by UBS Group AG (SWX: UBSG, NYSE: UBS) in Switzerland. UBS Securities is a primary dealer in US Government securities and provides a full range of investment banking services which includes corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, trading and sales, fixed-income, equity research, private banking, underwriting and prime brokerage operations. The firm also provides advisory services and access to capital markets for corporate, institutional, intermediary and alternative asset management clients.