Irving Kau

KW Capital Partners LP is an American real estate company that prioritizes making the process of buying or selling a home a pleasant and rewarding experience for their clients. The private company is based in Columbus, OH. The company has a team of 8+ members with specialized skills and a focus on building lifetime partnerships with their clients.

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.

Founded in 2012, Umbrella Research LLC is an independent investment research firm located in New York City. The firm seeks to fill a growing information vacuum in the equity universe as diminishing investment banking prospects has resulted in the underinvestment of traditional sell side research support for small-cap and emerging growth companies. The result has been a growing universe of underfollowed or orphaned companies for which investor exposure and education is essentially non-existent. Umbrella Research & Advisory's efforts focus exclusively on lesser known companies where their research, whitepapers and investor outreach can create greater incremental value to both their subject companies and investors. While the universe of orphaned companies is large, the firm's resources remain focused on a limited number of companies to ensure quality and depth of coverage.