Eli Kammerman

Cowen & Co. LLC is a SEC-registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2004 and is a subsidiary of Cowen Holdings, Inc., ultimately owned by The Toronto-Dominion Bank (TSE: TD) in Canada. Cowen & Co. offers industry-focused investment banking for growth-oriented companies, domain knowledge-driven research and a sales and trading platform for institutional investors. Their institutional sales and trading business serves both equity and fixed-income clients. Sales and trading execution platform is structured around the following key verticals: (1) healthcare (2) technology, telecommunications and media (TMT) (3) REITs and financials (4) aerospace and defense (5) consumer and (6) alternative energy.

Headquartered in New York City, Cathay Financial Corp. is an employee-owned independent research firm and institutional broker-dealer. Their product encompassed fundamental equity, (with an insistence on catalysts), special situations including spin-offs, orphan equities and mergers. They do not have a maintenance model. Cathay was founded in 1992 by Bernard Joei.