Kate Winkler

Founded in 2001, Global Crown Capital Securities is a broker/dealer located San Francisco. The firm is a subsidiary of a subsidiary of Global Crown Capital LLC. They offer a full array of investment services. Global Crown Capital provides global fundamental and technical research, as well as global macro and micro investing strategies. Their research is primarily focused on the following sectors: semiconductors, semiconductor equipment and materials, nanotechnology and MEMS, oil, oil drilling and gas, biotechnology, medical technology, telecommunications (wireless and wireline), electronic manufacturing services (EMS), software/Internet, financial services, retail and industrials. Global Crown Capital Securities is a member of the NASD and the SIPC.

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.