John J. Barry

LaSalle National Bank is headquartered in Chicago and serves individuals, small businesses, middle market companies and institutions. Their parent company, LaSalle Bank Corporation, is a subsidiary of Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC).

AK Capital LLC provides investment advisory services. The private company is based in New York, NY.

Founded in 1993, Amherst Securities Group LP is an SEC-registered broker/dealer headquartered in Austin, Texas. The firm is a subsidiary of Amherst Pierpont Securities LLC. Amherst Securities is a leading dealer and market maker in mortgage-backed securities, agency securities and select fixed-income investments. The firm focuses on mortgage-related investments for institutional customers including large federal agencies, private asset managers and mid-size depositories. Amherst Securities provides an array of trading and execution services for their clients. They do not provide any internal research.

Founded in 2008, ABN AMRO, Inc. is a broker/dealer located in New York City. They are a subsidiary of ABN AMRO North America, Inc. and their ultimate parent is Amsterdam-based RFS Holdings BV. ABN AMRO is an international bank with European roots. They focus on consumer and commercial clients in their local markets and focus globally on select multinational corporations and financial institutions, as well as private clients. ABN AMRO is active in four principal customer segments: Personal Banking, Private Banking, Business and Commercial and Corporate and Institutional. While they serve a broad range of clients, their strategic focus is on the mid-market segment

Bonds.com, Inc. operated as a trading platform serving institutional fixed income investors. The company was headquartered in Boca Raton, FL.

Sovereign Bank provides banking services. Its services include retail banking, business and corporate banking, cash management, capital markets, wealth management, and insurance. The company was founded in 1907 and is headquartered in Reading, PA.

Bonds.com Group, Inc. operates through its indirect, wholly-owned subsidiary Bonds.com, Inc. The company operates an electronic trading platform under the name BondsPRO. This platform offers large institutional investors an alternative trading system to trade odd-lot fixed-income securities. It provides fixed income trading platform that allows traders to access liquidity and improve prices in the highly-fragmented, inefficient fixed income markets. The company also offers live, executable bids and offers in corporate, agencies, municipals, U.S. treasuries, CDs, mortgage backed securities, emerging market debt and structured products and brokerage and investment advisory services. It also provides news, financial, and other content services to assist the clients in their investment decisions and offers general market information. The company was founded on October 18, 2005 and is headquartered in New York, NY.