Jim Sanderson

Founded in 2008, Northcoast Research Partners LLC is an independent, full-service, institutional equity research firm located in Cleveland, Ohio. The firm is a subsidiary of Northcoast Research Holdings LLC. Their research coverage include: business services, consumer, healthcare, industrial/basic materials and accounting/tax policy.

Detwiler Fenton & Co., formerly Detwiler, Mitchell, Fenton & Graves, Inc. is a broker/dealer headquartered in Boston. The firm traces its origins to 1962 with the founding of Fechtor, Detwiler & Co., which merged with JMC Group in August 1999. Detwiler Fenton & Co. is a subsidiary of Detwiler Fenton Group, Inc. (DMCD.PK). The firm's 2 major divisions are the capital markets group and the private client group. Detwiler Fenton Capital Markets provides insightful, timely and focused research across a variety of technology and consumer industry verticals. All of the firm's research is published by licensed analysts. Their research team seeks to generate value-added investment ideas through in-depth research, using a mosaic approach to identify, analyze and understand changing business and market dynamics that can be translated into investment strategy. The firm's research notes are distributed daily to clients. Detwiler Fenton Capital Markets provides investment and brokerage services to institutional investors. Detwiler Fenton & Co.'s private client group provides wealth management services to high net-worth individuals. Their services include: portfolio management, brokerage services, alternative investments, retirement planning, mutual funds and corporate trustee services through NFS.

Farmhouse Equity Research LLC is an independent equity research firm headquartered in Fair Oaks, California. The firm was founded by J.P. Mark in 2002 and they provide Custom Channel Check Research to institutional investors on a wide range of consumer goods, retail, technology, biotech, health care, and industrial companies.