Edward C. Mattes

Trusted Media Brands, Inc. operates as a multi-brand and multi-platform media and direct marketing company. The firm publishes magazines, books, music collections, and video products. It offers consumer goods and fitness products. The company was founded by DeWitt Wallace in 1922 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Distributed Energy Systems Corp. develops advanced technology related to hydrogen production and fuel cell applications. It operates through two subsidiaries, Proton Energy Systems, Inc. and Northern Power Systems, Inc. Proton is engaged in designing, developing, selling and manufacturing on-site hydrogen gas delivery systems. Northern has a range of businesses, including the design and sale of power generation equipment, engineering, procurement and construction of distributed power systems, the design and sale of direct drive wind turbines, and the servicing of fossil fuel power generation equipment. Distributed Energy Systems was founded on May 19, 2003 and is headquartered in Wallingford, CT.

Eating Well, Inc. produces healthy recipes magazines. The company was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in Shelburne, VT.

Frost Investment Advisors LLC is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in San Antonio, Texas. The firm was founded in 1868 and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Frost Bank, itself wholly owned by Cullen/Frost Bankers, Inc. (NYSE: CFR). Frost Investment Advisors offers a family of diversified mutual funds and provides investment advisory services designed to meet the goals of their institutional, family office and individual clients.

KPMG LLP engages in the provision of audit, tax, and advisory services. It serves the banking and capital markets, building, construction and real estate, consumer and retail, energy, natural resources and chemicals, financial services, government and public sector, healthcare and life sciences, industrial manufacturing, insurance, media and entertainment, private equity, technology, telecommunications, and venture capital industries. The company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Golf Digest Cos. publishes golf magazines. It offers golf digest shop, golf digest perks, and golf digest planner. The company was founded by John F. Barnett, William H. Davis, and Howard Gill in 1950 and is headquartered in Norwalk, CT.

Reed Smith LLP provides legal services. It also provides appellate advocacy, business immigration, class-action defense, commercial litigation, corporate and securities, financial, insurance recovery, employment, real estate, restructuring, bankruptcy and tax controversy services. The company was founded in 1877 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.

B. Riley Wealth Management, Inc. (B. Riley), formerly Wunderlich Securities, Inc., is a full-service brokerage firm headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee, founded in 1996. The firm is a subsidiary of Wunderlich Investment Co., Inc. B. Riley provides comprehensive wealth management and brokerage services to individuals and families, corporations and non-profit organizations, including qualified retirement plans, trusts, foundations and endowments. In 2001, they expanded their business to include investment advisory services. The firm is duly registered with the SEC.

Grassroots Capital Management Corp. (Grassroots Capital Management) is an independent investment management and advisory firm founded in 2003 by Paul Dileo. The firm is headquartered in Plainfield, Massachusetts.

Founded in 1990 by Liam Dalton, Axiom Capital Management, Inc. is a full-service broker/dealer located in New York City. The firm offers traditional fixed-income and equity services including separately managed accounts through mutual funds, hedge funds, fund of funds and exchange funds. They serve high net-worth individuals, pension plans, profit sharing plans and other institutions. Axiom Capital Management is member of FINRA/SIPC. Axiom assists start-up and transitional hedge funds in selecting the prime broker best suited for their funds. The firm's services include: soft dollar reimbursements, execution of foreign market derivatives, turnkey information technology infrastructure solutions. Axiom can meet the needs of hedge funds worth up to $1 billion. Axiom is an experienced soft-dollar broker. The firm works their large, diverse institutional customer base to arrange equitable and compliant soft-dollar agreements. The firm's trading desk adheres to the highest compliance standards combining state-of-the-art technology and experienced traders to deliver quality executions in most domestic and international products.

Northwestern University is a private institution founded in 1851 to serve the Northwest Territory, an area that now includes the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and parts of Minnesota. Northwestern has three campuses

Minor League Baseball owns and operates professional sports teams which include professional and amateur sports teams, clubs, leagues and associations. The company was founded in September 5, 1901 and is headquartered in St. Petersburg, FL.

B. Riley Securities, Inc. is a registered broker/dealer headquartered in Los Angeles, California. The firm is a subsidiary of B. Riley Securities Holdings LLC, ultimately owned by B. Riley Financial, Inc. (NASDAQ: RILY). The firm was formed in 2017, when B. Riley Financial, Inc. merged two of their brokers, B. Riley & Co. (founded in 1997) and FBR Capital Markets & Co. (founded in 1989), under the name of B. Riley FBR, Inc. B. Riley Securities provides research and trading ideas to institutional clients and high net-worth individuals. They provide investment banking services to a wide range of middle-market private and public companies.

VisionSpring, Inc. provides variety of eyeglasses and eye care services. The company was founded by Jordan S. Kassalow in 2001 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Mamava, Inc. designs mobile lactation suites for nursing mamas on the go. It specializes in consulting on design and furnishing of nursing lounges, mobile lactation suites, breastfeeding rights, breast pumping accommodations, compliance with breastfeeding laws. The company was founded by Christine Dodson and Sascha Mayer in 2008 and is headquartered in Burlington, VT.

Northern Power Systems, Inc. designs, manufactures and installs wind turbines. It offers project planning and installation, monitoring and maintenance, and feasibility studies and technical consultations services. The company was founded in 1974 and is headquartered in Barre, VT.

National Securities Corp., a subsidiary of National Holdings Corp., is an international, full-service, independent brokerage firm with a diverse base of retail and institutional clients. National Securities was founded in 1947 in Seattle, Washington with the goal of providing a full suite of financial products and services to its registered representatives and clients. The firm and their subsidiaries are headquartered in New York City and Seattle and have a multitude of domestic and international offices that provide a broad range of securities brokerage, financial planning, and investment services, as well as corporate finance and investment banking services to corporations and businesses. National Securities' representatives are primarily independent contractors who operate their business with freedom and flexibility in advising their clients. The firm is a member FINRA/SIPC.

National Financial Services is an operating division and the institutional trading arm of National Financial Services LLC. The firm is a broker/dealer headquartered in Boston. They execute equity and fixed-income securities trades on behalf of institutional clients as well as several Fidelity businesses. Their ultimate parent is FRM LLC. National Financial Services maintains a team of principal traders in New York that make markets in several hundred NASDAQ securities. The firm also has specialists on the Boston Stock Exchange. Their fixed-income operation is a principal dealer in a wide range of taxable and tax-exempt securities. They also underwrite municipal and government agency debt

B. Riley Wealth Management, Inc. (Investment Management) (BRWM-IM) is the asset management division of B. Riley Wealth Management, Inc., a brokerage firm headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee. The firm was founded in 1996 as Wunderlich Securities, Inc. They are ultimately held by B. Riley Financial, Inc. (NASDAQ: RILY). BRWM-IM provides investment advisory services to individuals, high net worth individuals, pension plans, profit-sharing plans, 401(k) plans, wrap programs, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, corporations, and other business entities.

Global Resource Options, Inc. provides solar energy solutions for commercial and residential applications. It offers turnkey engineering, procurement and construction of solar photovoltaic projects. The firm's solutions encompass design-build, development support, operations and maintenance, product procurement and financing. It serves developers, financial, commercial, government, utility and other institutional clients. The company was founded by Jeffery D. Wolfe and Dorothy M. Wolfe in 1998 and is headquartered in White River Junction. VT.

Algorithm Sciences, Inc. engages in the business of technology services. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Aerwave Medical, Inc. is a company that is developing a unique alternative to traditional medications used to treat pulmonary diseases such as asthma and COPD. The company is based in New York, NY, and the CEO of the company is Jeffrey Francis O'Donnell. These diseases are characterized by an unmet medical need, with up to 15% of asthma patients and 25% of COPD patients being unresponsive to treatment. Additionally, around 50% of long-term inhaler users discontinue use within the first year due to compliance issues and multiple side effects. Aerwave Medical's revolutionary approach involves an interventional method to treat these diseases.

Cingulate Works, Inc. is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company which operates drug delivery platform technology to build and advance a pipeline of next-generation pharmaceutical products. Its products designed to improve the lives of patients suffering from burdensome daily dosing regimens and suboptimal treatment outcomes. The company was founded by Shane J. Schaffer, Matthew N. Brams, Raul R. Silva & Craig Steven Gilgallon in 2013 and is headquartered in Kansas City, KS.

Voltron Therapeutics, Inc. develops the vaccine and immunotherapy center. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in New York, NY.