Ted L. Knetzger

Founded in 1985, NatWest Markets Securities, Inc. is a financial services and brokerage firm headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut. The firm is a subsidiary of RBS Holdings USA, Inc. and their ultimate parent is the Royal Bank of Scotland Plc (LSE: RBS). The firm was formerly known as RBS Securities, Inc., RBS Greenwich Capital, and Greenwich Capital Markets, Inc. NatWest is an institutional fixed-income firm that provides a full range of debt capital markets services to both those seeking to raise capital and those seeking to invest it. The firm is an industry leader in the U.S. Treasury, agency and MBS markets and in providing real estate and asset-backed financing to their clients. NatWest also provides futures brokerage services and trade strategies to select clients.

Morgans Hotel Group Co. operates, owns, acquires, develops, and redevelops boutique hotels. It also operates nightclubs, restaurants, bars, and other food and beverage venues in many of the hotels and casinos. The company was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Founded in 1993, Divco West Properties is a real estate investment firm located in San Francisco and Boston.

The Hole In The Wall Gang Fund, Inc. operates as a non-profit organization. It is dedicated to provide a different kind of healing to seriously ill children and their families. It is a community celebrates the spirit of childhood, the sound of laughter and the feeling of endless possibility. The company was founded by Paul Newman in June 1988 and is headquartered in New Haven, CT.

Bonds.com Group, Inc. operates through its indirect, wholly-owned subsidiary Bonds.com, Inc. The company operates an electronic trading platform under the name BondsPRO. This platform offers large institutional investors an alternative trading system to trade odd-lot fixed-income securities. It provides fixed income trading platform that allows traders to access liquidity and improve prices in the highly-fragmented, inefficient fixed income markets. The company also offers live, executable bids and offers in corporate, agencies, municipals, U.S. treasuries, CDs, mortgage backed securities, emerging market debt and structured products and brokerage and investment advisory services. It also provides news, financial, and other content services to assist the clients in their investment decisions and offers general market information. The company was founded on October 18, 2005 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Kidder, Peabody & Co., Inc. provides security brokerage services. The private company is based in Buffalo, NY and has subsidiaries in Switzerland. The company was founded by Thomas W. Ostrander.