Steve L. Handley

Headquartered in El Dorado Hills, California, J. M. Dutton & Associates is a broker/dealer. The firm offers a full array of investment services with a focus on small-cap public companies. They provide issuer-paid research and widely distribute their research to institutions and individuals, both domestic and international.

Founded in 2009, Beardsley Research is an independent investment research firm located in Oakland, California. The firm's analysts provide equity research coverage for public companies which operate in high growth sectors including Communications Technology, Internet, Clean Technology, Alternative Energy, Water, Health Care, Industrial, and Special Situations. In general, the firm focuses on relatively underfollowed small-cap stocks with market-cap of $50 million to $1 billion. The majority of companies they follow are US-based; however, they expect an increasing percentage of companies under research coverage will be headquartered in Asia and Europe.