William H. Gibbs

Hatteras Financial Corp. operates as a mortgage real estate investment trust. It owns and manages a portfolio of residential mortgage investments, primarily in residential mortgage securities, with a focus on those secured by adjustable-rate mortgage loans on single-family residences. The company was founded on September 19, 2007 and is headquartered in Winston-Salem, NC.

ACM Financial Trust, Inc. operates a mortgage finance REIT. It specializes in government guaranteed residential adjustable-rate mortgage backed security management. The company was founded by William H. Gibbs Jr, Michael R. Hough, and Benjamin M. Hough in 1998 is headquartered in Winston-Salem, NC.

BB&T Securities LLC, doing business as BB&T Capital Markets, is the broker/dealer subsidiary of BB&T Corp. (NYSE: BBT). The firm is headquartered in Richmond, Virginia. They offer a full array of investment, trading and execution services to middle-market companies. BB&T Capital Markets' sales and trading arm is comprised of 2 groups: Debt Securities Sales & Trading and Equity Sales & Trading. The Debt Securities Sales & Trading group focuses on: (1) Government and agency securities (2) corporate bonds (3) municipal bonds (4) asset-backed securities (5) mortgage-backed securities (6) preferred securities and (7) money market desk (short-term securities including BB&T funding). The Equity Sales & Trading group focuses on: (1) institutional block execution services (2) institutional distribution of proprietary research (3) providing proprietary access to industry leading conferences and management teams (4) serving as a NASDAQ market maker for over 250 securities (5) stock buybacks including 10b-18 and 10b5-1 trading plans and (6) 144 stock sales, individual 10b5-1 trading plans (buy and sell) and employee cashless stock option programs. BB&T Capital Markets provides research coverage of the communications, defense and government services, energy, financial services, furnishings and consumer durables, healthcare, industrial services, retail/consumer durables and transportation services sectors.