Ken Billingsley

Compass Point Research & Trading LLC (Compass Point) is a registered broker-dealer and full-service investment banking firm headquartered in Washington, DC. The firm was founded by Scott Dreyer in 2007 and is owned by Sooner Holdings LLC. Compass Point provides investment banking, research, and sales and trading services to institutional investors. Their clients include investment advisors, mutual funds, hedge funds and other institutional accounts located in the US, Canada and Europe.

Founded in 1999, BGB Securities, Inc. is a broker/dealer located in Arlington, Virginia. They are a subsidiary of Aegis Financial Corp. and their ultimate parent is Vesta Insurance Group, Inc. (OTC: VTAIQ.PK). The firm clears equity transactions through National Financial, a subsidiary of Fidelity Investments Company. BGB securities in a member of FINRA and the SIPC. BGB Securities specializes in researching inefficiently priced securities that are misunderstood or insufficiently covered by the marketplace. As contrarians, they seek to identify investments that are temporarily out of favor. The firm seeks to identify mispriced assets that are capable of producing significant future cash flows and looks for near term catalysts that may cause intrinsic values to be realized. BGB Securities favors companies trading at discounted levels with tangible assets that can be readily valued within a margin of safety. They also seek to identify mispriced companies with competitive advantages that allow for sustainable profit margins. The firm focuses on special situations across industries, favoring a fundamental-driven, analytical approach. BGB securities' research focuses on the following sectors: housing finance, homebuilders, REITs, consumer and diversified. In addition to executing equity trades for their clients, BGB Securities also assists clients with trades in a select number of fixed-income products.

Signal Hill Capital Group LLC provides brokerage services. It offers mergers and acquisitions, fairness opinion, due diligence, valuation, divestiture, transaction structuring, negotiation, private placement, restructuring, and capital structuring advisory services. The company was founded by Scott Alan Wieler in 2002 and is headquartered in Baltimore, MD.

BB&T Securities LLC, doing business as BB&T Capital Markets, is the broker/dealer subsidiary of BB&T Corp. (NYSE: BBT). The firm is headquartered in Richmond, Virginia. They offer a full array of investment, trading and execution services to middle-market companies. BB&T Capital Markets' sales and trading arm is comprised of 2 groups: Debt Securities Sales & Trading and Equity Sales & Trading. The Debt Securities Sales & Trading group focuses on: (1) Government and agency securities (2) corporate bonds (3) municipal bonds (4) asset-backed securities (5) mortgage-backed securities (6) preferred securities and (7) money market desk (short-term securities including BB&T funding). The Equity Sales & Trading group focuses on: (1) institutional block execution services (2) institutional distribution of proprietary research (3) providing proprietary access to industry leading conferences and management teams (4) serving as a NASDAQ market maker for over 250 securities (5) stock buybacks including 10b-18 and 10b5-1 trading plans and (6) 144 stock sales, individual 10b5-1 trading plans (buy and sell) and employee cashless stock option programs. BB&T Capital Markets provides research coverage of the communications, defense and government services, energy, financial services, furnishings and consumer durables, healthcare, industrial services, retail/consumer durables and transportation services sectors.

SNL Financial LC provides financial and industry data, research, news and analytics to investment professionals, government agencies and corporations. Its products include SNL unlimited, news, SNLbanker, performance graph, support and training and SNL knowledge center. The firm provides news, financial data and analysis on business sectors, which includes, banking, insurance, financial services, real estate, energy and media and communications. SNL Financial was founded by Reid Nagle and Jessica Nagle in 1987 and is headquartered in Charlottesville, VA.

Founded in 1989, FBR Capital Markets & Co., formerly Friedman, Billings, Ramsey & Co., is a broker/dealer headquartered in Arlington, Virginia with additional offices throughout the US. The firm is a subsidiary of FBR Capital Markets Holdings, Inc.. and their ultimate parent is FBR & Co. (NASDAQ: FBRC). In 2007, FBR Capital Markets Corp. was spun out from FBR Group as an independent investment bank, of which FBR Group retained majority ownership. FBR Capital Markets is registered with the SEC and is a member of FINRA, Nasdaq and the SIPC. FBR Capital Markets' Equity Sales & Trading Group provides institutional sales and trading services to over 1300 institutional accounts in the US, Canada, Europe, Australia and Asia. Their clients include mutual funds, hedge funds, money managers, endowments, foundations, banks, insurance companies and pension and profit sharing plans. They actively trade on behalf of clients and make markets in almost 1000 stocks traded on the NYSE, listed and OTC markets and trade more than $100 billion of securities on a per annum basis. In 2009, FBR Capital Markets began making markets in selected stocks traded on the London Stock Exchange and Euronext. In addition to agency trading in listed securities markets, they act as market-maker in Nasdaq and other OTC securities. They are one of the largest distributors of the shares of small- and mid-cap companies in public and private securities offerings and have deep trading expertise in the vertical industry groups in which the firm's investment banking and research teams specialize. These sectors include: (1) consumer (2) diversified industrials (3) energy and natural resources (4) financial institutions (5) healthcare (6) insurance (7) real estate (8) Washington policy analysis and (0) technology, media and telecommunications. The firm's analytical coverage includes a large number of small- and mid-cap companies in addition to large companies. Research is provided by FBR Capital Markets' research department, which is independent from the firm's investment banking department and has the sole authority to determine which companies receive research coverage and the recommendation contained in the coverage.