Kyle M. Lauzon

C.K. Cooper & Co. is a full-service investment banking and broker/dealer headquartered in Irvine, California. The firm was founded in 1982 as a wholly-owned subsidiary of C & K Capital Corp., and a sister company to Paladin Capital Partners, Inc. The services provided by C.K. Cooper & Co. were expanded in 1996, when a management team led by Alexander G. Montano purchased the firm. In 2001, C.K. Cooper & Co. began to offer brokerage services to individual investors. The firm is a member of the NASD. C.K. Cooper & Co. focuses on the oil and gas sectors. Their primary focus within the oil and gas sectors is the exploration and production sub-sector. The core thesis of the firm's research is based on what they refer to as the feeding frenzy, suggesting that there are constant business cycles within the E&P sector. These cycles are predicated on the need for larger oil and gas companies to acquire smaller exploration and production companies to maintain rates of growth.

Founded in 2007, BioLogic Investment Research LLC is an independent research firm located in Tallahassee, Florida. They focus on companies in the biotechnology, life sciences and medical devices sectors. The firm provides proprietary and self-initiated research for leading institutional investors. They seek to help their clients exploit the pervasive and repetitive informational inefficiencies inherent in the life sciences and healthcare capital markets including those arising from questionable corporate PR, dubious science and suspect medical literature. While BioLogic covers the full spectrum of life sciences companies, they focus on high-alpha binary events such as regulatory action dates and clinical data releases. In addition, BioLogic writes extensively on companies and products tainted by deception to outright fraud.

Dawson James Securities, Inc. (Dawson James) is a full service investment firm and registered broker-dealer headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida. The firm was founded in 2002 and is a subsidiary of Ark Financial Services, Inc. Dawson James offers research, institutional & retail sales, and execution trading & corporate services to institutional money managers, mutual funds, registered investment advisors, corporations and insurance companies.

Founded in 1997, Sterling Financial Investment Group is an Hispanic-owned broker/dealer headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida. The firm focuses on private clients in Latin America and the US Hispanic market. They offer wealth management services, asset management and investment banking services. Additionally, their fixed-income sales and trading division service both institutional and retail clients. Sterling is a member of the NASD.