Richard Verdi

Ladenburg Thalmann & Co., Inc. (Broker) is the broker/dealer division of Ladenburg Thalmann & Co., Inc., ultimately held by Advisor Group Holdings, Inc. Headquartered in New York City, the firm was founded in 1876 and offers a full suite of capital markets products and services, including proprietary equity research and a fixed-income trading desk. For institutional asset management clients, the firm provides liquidity, execution, high-quality idea-generating research, and access to corporate management teams. Their institutional coverage includes relationships with over asset management companies all over the world. To corporate clients, they bring access to investor capital, broad distribution capabilities and financial markets advisory. Ladenburg Thalmann is a leader in financing growing middle-market public companies across various industry verticals, including Healthcare & Life Sciences, Yield-Oriented Securities (BDCs, REITs, MLPs), Energy, Power & Infrastructure, and Telecom, Media & Technology.

Boenning & Scattergood, Inc. (Broker) (Boenning & Scattergood-Broker) is the registered broker-dealer division of Boenning & Scattergood, Inc., a financial services firm headquartered in West Conshohocken, Pennsylvania. The firm was founded by Henry D. Boenning in 1914. Boenning & Scattergood-Broker provides retail investors, municipal clients, and institutions a full complement of financial services, including retail brokerage, investment advisory, equity research, equity and fixed income sales and trading, investment banking, public finance, and option strategy.

Founded in 1988, Sturdivant & Co., Inc. is a full service brokerage firm located in Mt. Laurel, New Jersey. Sturdivant & Co. The firm's trading department utilizes the latest technologies to provide clients with maximum efficiency and overall execution excellence for both listed and NASDAQ orders. Sturdivant is connected to many of the major FIX order routing networks including Bloomberg, ITG RouteNet, MacGregor, TradeWare and TNS, as well as the major ECNs. With electronic order routing, traders benefit from seamless and efficient connectivity to Sturdivant directly from their existing systems. The firm strives to tap as many sources of liquidity to ensure that their clients' orders are executed as efficiently as possible. For clients who want their orders executed with a Volume Weighted Average Price (VWAP) strategy, Sturdivant's trading systems allow them to enter orders in multiple ways such as slicing the order into the market on a percentage basis, as a percentage of volume, or slicing it into the market at various times during the day. The firm brings their clients closer to the market through their relationship with a premier, independent Direct Access broker allowing them to provide point-of-sale execution and real-time information. Sturdivant is a member of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange. They can execute client orders on all the worldwide exchanges through their relationship with BNY ConvergEx Group and HSBC Securities (USA), Inc.

Coker & Palmer, Inc. is an independent registered broker/dealer and financial advisor headquartered in Jackson, Mississippi. The firm was founded by James D. Coker and James Y. Palmer in 1991. Coker & Palmer offers professional services in traditional securities brokerage to individuals and institutions as well as fee based asset management services.

Atwater Thornton LLC provides investment research. The private company is based in Mount Laurel, NJ. The company was founded by Richard Verdi.

Founded in 2010, MLV & Co. LLC is a broker/dealer located in New York City. The firm is a direct subsidiary of FBR Capital Markets Holdings, Inc. and their ultimate parent is FBR & Co. (NASDAQ: FBRC), which acquired the firm in 2015. Their research focuses on small to mid-sized companies with disruptive technologies that have the potential to drive significant market changes. MLV & Co.'s coverage universe includes the life sciences, oil & gas and metals & mining sectors.