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Next Generation Equity Research LLC is an independent equity research firm located in Chicago. The firm is a subsidiary of Hudson Securities, Inc. and their ultimate parent is Hudson Holding Corp. Next Generation Equity Research provides research on high quality small- to mid-cap growth companies. They seek to identify companies that have high and sustainable earnings growth and offer the potential to become market leaders within their sectors. The firm's research tends to focus on the industrial and transportation sectors.

Oppenheimer & Co., Inc. (Broker) (Oppenheimer-Broker) is the global full-service brokerage division of Oppenheimer & Co., Inc., an investment boutique headquartered in New York City with additional offices nationwide. Founded in 1975, the firm is owned directly by Viner Finance Inc., an indirect subsidiary of Oppenheimer Holdings Inc. (NYSE: OPY). Oppenheimer-Broker offers a full array of brokerage services to retail, institutional, and corporate clients.

ThinkEquity LLC, formerly ThinkPanmure LLC, is a broker/dealer located in San Francisco with additional offices in New York City, Minneapolis and Chicago. The firm was formed as a result of the merger between Panmure Gordon & Co. and ThinkEquity Partners LLC. They are a member of FINRA and the SIPC. ThinkEquity focuses exclusively on the growth sectors of the economy. The firm offers targeted research, investment banking, institutional sales and trading, wealth management and asset management services for private clients, institutional investors, corporate and private clients, venture capitalists, entrepreneurs and financial sponsors. They specialize in identifying, analyzing and understanding the technological, macroeconomic and cultural trends that impact key growth verticals. ThinkEquity focuses on the following sectors: software, communications, Internet/media, semiconductors, green technology and healthcare. The firm provides advisory services including raising capital for public and private companies, institutional brokerage and trading, asset management, wealth management and mergers & acquisitions.

Founded in 1964, Sterne, Agee & Leach, Inc. is a full service investment firm and registered broker/dealer headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama. The firm's expertise includes retail and institutional brokerage services, investment banking and underwriting, secondary trading of corporate, municipal, and government securities and market making in over-the-counter stocks. The firm is a member of the NYSE and FINRA.

Piper Sandler & Co. (Broker) (PSC-Broker) is the full-service brokerage division of Piper Sandler & Co., a financial service firm headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. They are a subsidiary of Piper Sandler Companies (NYSE: PIPR). The firm was founded in 1969 and previously known as Piper Jaffray & Co. They became Piper Sandler & Co. when Piper Jaffray Companies and Sandler O’Neill & Partners, L.P. merged to become Piper Sandler Companies in 2020. PSC-Broker provides brokerage and investment banking services to financial institutions, corporations and other financial investors. Their core focus sectors are Agriculture, renewables & cannabis, Business services, Chemicals & Materials, Consumer, Diversified industrials & services, Energy, Financial services, financial sponsors, Healthcare, and Technology.

International Rectifier Corp. designs, manufactures and markets power management semiconductors. Its semiconductors are used in a variety of applications, such as Automotive, Networking, Industrial Motors, Display, Consumer Electronics, Servers, Personal Computers, Game Stations, Telecommunications, Household Appliance, Satellites and Renewable Energy. The company operates its business through six segments: Power Management Devices, Energy-Savings Products, Automotive Products, Enterprise Power, HiRel and Intellectual Property. The Power Management Devices segment provides power MOSFETs within the power management semiconductor industry for a range of applications, including power supply, data processing, telecommunications, industrial, and commercial battery-powered systems. Its key products include Trench HEXFET MOSFETs, Discrete HEXFET MOSFETs, Dual HEXFET MOSFETs, FETKYs and DirectFETs. The Energy-Savings Products segment provides integrated design platforms that enable its customers to add energy-conserving features. Its key products include analog HVICs and IGBT platforms, digital control ICs and IRAM integrated power modules. The Automotive Products segment provides energy saving solutions to automotive systems. It supplies products to various automotive applications ranging from AC and DC motor drives of all power classes, actuator drivers, automotive lighting and direct fuel injection for diesel and gasoline engines. The Enterprise Power segment is focused on data center applications such as servers, storage, routers and switches, notebooks, graphics cards, gaming consoles and other computing and consumer applications. Its products include DirectFET discrete products, CHil digital PWM controllers, power monitoring products, XPhase, SupIRBuckTM, iPOWIR voltage regulators, Low voltage ICs, and PowIRstagesTM. The HiRel segment provides high reliability power components and sub-assemblies designed to address power management requirements in mission critical applications such as satellites, launch vehicles, aircraft, ships and submarines. Its products include RadHard Discretes, Power Management Modules and DC-DC Converters. The Intellectual Property segment includes revenues from the sale of the company's technologies and manufacturing process know-how. International Rectifier was founded by Eric Lidow and Leon Lidow in August 1947 and is headquartered in El Segundo, CA.

Mizuho Securities USA LLC is the US-based securities broker/dealer and futures commission merchant arm of Mizuho Americas LLC, ultimately held by Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. (TYO: 8411, NYSE: MFG) in Japan. Headquartered in New York City, the firm was founded in 1994 and provides institutional and corporate clients access to commodity and financial markets around the world. Mizuho Securities USA covers the following industries: Consumer, Energy, Financial Institutions, Financial Sponsors, Healthcare, Industrial & Diversified Industries, Power, Utilities & Infrastructure, Real Estate, and Technology, Media & Telecom (TMT). The firm and their affiliates hold memberships on all major futures and options exchanges worldwide.