Eric Appell

Founded in 1986, Merriman Capital, Inc. is an SEC-registered broker/dealer and investment banking firm headquartered in San Francisco. The firm is a subsidiary of Merriman Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: MERR), a financial services firm that focuses on fast-growing companies and their institutional investors. Merriman provides advisory and investment banking, equity research, institutional services, corporate services and venture services primarily to corporate clients. Merriman Capital provides research, brokerage and trading services primarily to institutional clients. The firm offers a full range of specialized and integrated services including: equity research, specialized trade execution, equity capital markets, corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, sales and trading, market making, corporate and venture services, restructurings and strategic advisory services. Merriman Capital employs bottom-up, fundamental analysis of small-cap companies in select industries including clean technology, healthcare, technology and consumer/Internet/media. The firm also has expertise in emerging markets, with emphasis on emerging markets in China. Merriman Capital is known to engage in shareholder activist investment strategies. Merriman Capital is a member of the NASD, the SIPC and FINRA. The firm serves as an introducing broker/dealer for Pershing LLC. They do not hold or maintain funds or securities or provide clearing services for other broker/dealers.

Seidler Capital is an investment banking firm and broker/dealer located in Los Angeles with an additional office in Irvine, California. The firm is a division of the Seidler Cos., Inc., a Los Angeles-based independent investment banking and financial services firms that was founded in 1969. The Seidler Cos. is a member firm of the NYSE, NASD and SIPC. Seidler Capital provides investment banking services to middle-market corporate and institutional clients. They offer capital raising, shareholder liquidity, merger and acquisition and strategic advisory services. Seidler Capital also provides fairness opinions, financial advisory, quantitative analysis and transactions review services

Part of Imperial Capital Group Holdings LLC, Dabney/Resnick/Imperial LLC is a full-service investment bank, brokerage firm, and asset manager. The company is based in Beverly Hills, CA. Dabney/Resnick/Imperial was acquired by Imperial Capital LLC on August 14, 1996.