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Bel Air Investment Advisors LLC (Bel Air) is a wealth management firm headquartered in Los Angeles, California. The firm was founded in 1997 and is a subsidiary of HighTower Holding LLC. Bel Air serves the specific needs and interests of wealthy individuals, families, and foundations.

Founded in 1972, Robert L. Bender, Inc. is a registered investment advisor located in Pasadena, California. The firm provides investment management services to high net-worth individuals and small institutions.

Seaport Global Securities LLC is a full service investment bank, capital markets advisory and research platform headquartered in New York City with offices across the US and in Europe. They are a subsidiary of Seaport Global Holdings LLC. The firm offers access to a broad selection of fixed income and equity products, as well as the market intelligence to provide insight to dynamic opportunities for its clients. Seaport Global Securities provides clients access to innovative trading solutions, competitive rates, quality execution, and superior service. Their equity trading team focuses on identifying liquidity in US, Canadian and European markets. The fixed income distribution platform covers all areas of the credit spectrum.

Covington Capital Management (Covington) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and wealth management firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2004 by Gary Arakawa, Rebecca Dutka, Kim Wilkinson, Franklin Ulf and Robert Raney. They were acquired by Cerity Partners Equity Holding LLC in 2022. Covington primarily manages portfolios for high-net-worth individuals and families, trusts, retirement accounts (IRAs, corporate pensions and profit-sharing plans), and charitable organizations (foundations and endowments).

Boustead Securities LLC is an investment banking firm that was established in 2006 to assist lower middle market private and public companies in all areas of capital markets formation. The private company is based in Irvine, CA and has subsidiaries in the United States. Today, it provides a full array of corporate finance, third party research, and sales and trading to a diversified client base that includes fast-growing companies, companies facing financial or other challenges, financial institutions, and high net worth clients. Boustead Securities executes and advises on IPOs, mergers and acquisitions, capital raises, and restructuring assignments in a wide array of industries, geographies, and transactions, for a broad client base. The company was founded in 2006 by David Allen Walters and Keith Charles Moore. Keith Charles Moore has been the CEO since 2006.

ROTH Capital Partners LLC is a broker/dealer headquartered in Newport Beach, California. The firm was founded in 2001 and is a subsidiary of CR Financial Holdings, Inc. They offer institutional sales and trading services. Their broad institutional coverage includes investors in North America, Canada, UK, Europe and other international territories.

Susquehanna International Group LLP engages in the provision of investment and other financial services. It offers institutional brokerage, trading, research, and market making services for equities. The company was founded by Lon Taylor and Gordon Apple in 1987 and is headquartered in Bala Cynwyd, PA.

University of Southern California is a private research university that mainly offers undergraduate, graduate & other higher education. The university was founded in 1880 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

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.

B. Riley Securities, Inc. is a registered broker/dealer headquartered in Los Angeles, California. The firm is a subsidiary of B. Riley Securities Holdings LLC, ultimately owned by B. Riley Financial, Inc. (NASDAQ: RILY). The firm was formed in 2017, when B. Riley Financial, Inc. merged two of their brokers, B. Riley & Co. (founded in 1997) and FBR Capital Markets & Co. (founded in 1989), under the name of B. Riley FBR, Inc. B. Riley Securities provides research and trading ideas to institutional clients and high net-worth individuals. They provide investment banking services to a wide range of middle-market private and public companies.

JANAS Associates engages in the provision of investment banking and advisory services. It offers buy side and sell side merger and acquisitions, corporate finance, crisis management, due diligence, and management consulting services. The firm specializes in aerospace and defense, agriculture, consumer products and services, distribution and supply chain, electronics and technology, and environmental and real estate. The company was founded by R. Carter Freeman in 1989 and is headquartered in Pasadena, CA.

Unidym, Inc. manufactures, develops, and applies carbon nanotubes. It also provides bulk materials to customers and business partners. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Founded in 2008, AlphaOne Investment Services LLC (AOIS) is a registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager located in Villanova, Pennsylvania. The firm is a wholly-owned subsidiary of AlphaOne Capital Partners LLC (AOCP). AOCP Holdings LLC is a wholly-owned subsidiary of AlphaOne Holdings LLC, a private company owned by Paul J. Hondros. AOCP acquired Redstone Investment Management LP in 2009. AOIS’ clients consist of a registered investment company (AlphaOne Micro Cap Equity Fund), private unregistered funds, individually managed accounts, and UMA clients.

Ampstar, LLC manufactures aluminum conductors.

Gsl Healthcare, Inc. is a pharmaceutical and nutraceutical company. The company is headquartered in NV.