Kimberly Ann Opiatowski

Founded in 1947 by Oscar Gruss and Emanuel Gruss, Oscar Gruss & Son, Inc. is a full-service broker/dealer located in New York City. The firm offers focused independent research and trading and execution services focusing particularly on special situations and convertibles. They conduct business with major Israeli institutional clients who execute trades in U.S. equities and options. Oscar Gruss & Son also maintains a trading desk in New York solely dedicated to European investors. The firm is a member of the NYSE and the SIPC.

APB Financial Group LLC is a private company based in New York, NY. APB Financial Group LLC was founded in 1996 by Steven Holt Abernathy, who has been the CEO since its inception.

The Vertical Group LP (TVG) is a venture capital firm founded in 1988 by Richard B. Emmitt. The firm is headquartered in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey.

Founded in 1995, Pali Capital, Inc. is a full-service broker/dealer located in New York City with an additional office in Greenbrae, California. The firm is a subsidiary of Pali Holdings, Inc. Pali Capital leverages their core brokerage business for a predominantly specialty hedge fund client base to create an integrated blend of product lines including equity trading, options trading, hedge fund hosting, independent research and research analysts and investment banking. Their research covers US equities, European equities, European mergers and acquisitions and event-driven capital structure arbitrage and Asian equities.

Auriga USA is a broker/dealer located in New York City. Their research focuses on the semiconductors, information technology and health services sectors.

Part of John Wood Group Plc, Foster Wheeler, Inc. is a company that provides engineering and construction services. The company is based in Clinton, NJ.

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.