Ronald A. Rimer

Novus Merchant Partners, Inc. is a merchant and investment bank based in Canada, established in 2016. Novus focuses on various sectors, including real estate, technology, agriculture, cannabis, manufacturing, consumer products, healthcare, aviation, and cleantech. The private company is located at 130 King Street West, Exchange Tower, Suite 1205, Toronto, ON M5X 1A9, Canada. The Canadian company invests its own capital and provides capital markets, managerial, and boardroom expertise to enhance value for its clients. The company takes advantage of its deep sector awareness and longstanding, diversified international capital market relationships. Novus has proven expertise in corporate finance, merchant banking, and mergers and acquisitions, which speaks to its demonstrated ability to create continued success for its partners and clients. Novus Merchant Partners was founded by Justin Barragan, Charles Shin, and Ronald A. Rimer, and Ronald A. Rimer has been the CEO since incorporation.

BMO Capital Markets Corp. (Canada) (BMO Capital Markets-Canada) is the Canadian brokerage arm of BMO Capital Markets Corp., a full-service financial services provider in the US. The firm was founded in 1817 and is a subsidiary of BMO Asset Management, Inc., which is owned by Bank of Montreal (NYSE, TSX: BMO) in Canada. Headquartered in Toronto, BMO Capital Markets-Canada provides full-service, institutional brokerage services to corporate, institutional and government clients around the world.

Founded in 2007, Macquarie Capital Markets Canada Ltd. is a broker located in Toronto with additional offices located in Montreal, Vancouver and Calgary. They are a subsidiary of Macquarie Capital Markets North America Ltd. and their ultimate parent is Macquarie Group Ltd. (OTC: MQBKF.PK). Macquarie Capital Markets Canada follows the following sectors: mining, energy, utilities, infrastructure, consumer, technology, financials and real estate. The firm focuses primarily on Canadian-based stocks.