Eugene Leow

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.

DBS Bank Ltd. engages in the provision of commercial banking and financial services. It operates through the following segments: Consumer Banking and Wealth Management, Institutional Banking, Treasury Markets, and Others. The Consumer Banking and Wealth Management segment offers individual customers a current and savings accounts, fixed deposits, loans and home finance, cards, payments, investment, and insurance products. The Institutional Banking segment includes financial services and products to institutional clients including bank and non-bank financial institutions, government-linked companies, large corporates, and small and medium-sized businesses. The Treasury Markets segment consists of structuring, market-making, and trading across treasury products. The Others segment encompasses activities from corporate decisions, capital and balance sheet management, funding, and liquidity. The company was founded in July1968 and is headquartered in Singapore.

The World Business Council for Sustainable Development operates as a business development association. The non-profit company is based in Geneva, Switzerland and has subsidiaries in Taiwan. The Swiss company was founded in 1995 by Bertrand P. Collomb and Stephan Schmidheiny. M. Peter Bakker has been the CEO of the company since 2012.

Part of China Development Financial Holding Corp., KGI Securities (Singapore) Pte. Ltd is a brokerage firm based in Singapore, Singapore. KGI Securities (Singapore) Pte. on January 30, 2015 for $33.95 million. The CEO of the Singaporean company is Cheng Hoe Teo. Ltd was acquired by KGI Asia (Holdings) Pte Ltd. from AMMB Holdings Bhd.

PT DBS Vickers Securities Indonesia (DBSVI) is a broker/dealer headquartered in Jakarta, Indonesia. The firm is a subsidiary of DBS Vickers Securities Holdings Pte Ltd., ultimately held by DBS Group Holdings Ltd. (SGX: D05) in Singapore. DBSVI provides both individual and institutional investors with stock trading services, equity research, underwriting for debt and equity capital market and financial advisory services including restructuring and M&A.

DBS Vickers (Hong Kong) Ltd. (DBS-HK) is a broker/dealer firm headquartered in Hong Kong. The firm is a subsidiary of DBS Vickers Securities Holdings Pte Ltd., ultimately held by DBS Group Holdings Ltd. (SGX: D05) in Singapore. DBS-HK provides a comprehensive blend of brokerage services.

Nomura Financial Investment (Korea) Co., Ltd. provides brokerage services. It offers wealth management, asset management, retail, merchant and investment banking services. The company was founded on November 26, 2009 and is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.

CGS-CIMB Research Pte Ltd. (CGS-CIMB-Research) is the Singapore-based research subsidiary of CIMB Bank Bhd., ultimately owned by CIMB Group Holdings Bhd. (KL: 1023) in Malaysia. The CIMB-GK group consists of several firms operating in close relationship to provide investment research, brokerage, corporate finance services, wealth management and online trading. In addition to Singapore, the CIMB-GK group has offices in London, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Thailand and the US. The firm was formerly known as G. K. Goh Research, established in Singapore in the 1980s. They became CIMB Research Pte Ltd. in 2005 when CIMB acquired G. K. Goh Stockbrokers Pte Ltd. CGS-CIMB-Research is primarily a research and analysis operation which focuses on equity, fixed-income and economic trends in South-East Asia. The firm specializes in regional market predictions, advising the parent group's subsidiaries as well as domestic and foreign fund managers.

Wells Fargo Securities LLC (WFS) is the broker/dealer subsidiary of EVEREN Capital Corp., ultimately owned by Wells Fargo & Co. (NYSE: WFC). Headquartered in New York, WFS delivers a comprehensive suite of banking, capital markets and advisory solutions, such as a full complement of sales, trading and research capabilities, to corporate, government and institutional clients.