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Founded in 2003 by Cliff Rodman and Charles Renshaw, Rodman & Renshaw LLC is a full-service investment bank and broker/dealer located in New York City with an additional office in Boston. The firm is a subsidiary of Rodman & Renshaw Capital Group (NasdaqGM: RODM). The firm provides corporate finance, strategic advisory and related services to public and private companies across multiple sectors and regions. They also provide research and sales and trading services to institutional investors. Rodman & Renshaw is a leader in the PIPE and RD (registered direct offering) transaction markets. The firm's research focuses on Asia, clean technology, community & regional banks, energy, industrial and commercial services, life science/healthcare and metals and mining. Rodman & Renshaw is a member of the NASD and the SIPC.

FTN Equity Capital Markets Corp., formerly FTN Midwest Securities Corp., is an institutional equity research, sales and trading firm headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio. They provide institutional investors with bottom-up, fundamental research on domestic companies in a broad array of industries including consumer, health care, manufacturing, business services, technology and financial services. The firm is also a full-service investment banking firm offering equity and debt underwriting and mergers and acquisition services. FTN Equity Capital Markets Corp is a registered broker/dealer and a wholly-owned subsidiary of First Tennessee Bank NA, which is owned by First Horizon National Corp. (NYSE: FHN). The firm is a member of the NASD and the SIPC.

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.

Founded in 1998 by Avi Cohen, Avian Securities LLC is a broker/dealer headquartered in Boston with an additional office in New York City. The firm is a member of FINRA, NQX, ARCA BATS and the SIPC. Avian Securities specializes in providing brokerage services and information technology research for institutional investors. Their clients range from very large mutual fund families to smaller hedge funds and cross-over funds. Avian Securities focuses on the following sectors: enterprise software, storage, telecommunications, semiconductors and PCs, LCD, RFID and special situations. The firm's research coverage universe includes companies located primarily in the U.S. and Asia.

Boston-based Adams Harkness Asset Management (AH) is a registered investment advisor and division of Adams Harkness, Inc.

Founded in 1984, Hudson Securities, Inc. is a registered broker/dealer located in Jersey City, New Jersey. Hudson Securities is a market maker, providing their clients with quality order execution and liquidity with an emphasis on smaller capitalized issues. They make markets in over 9,000 stocks including NMS equities, NASDAQ small caps, NYSE listed securities, OTCBB's, Pink Sheets, Foreign ADR and ordinary securities. Hudson Securities also accommodates clients' interest in bidding for or offering gray market stocks. They provide a full array of trading and execution services for their clients. The firm does not perform any internal research. Hudson Securities was founded in 1984 and operated as Wien Securities, Inc. until 2004. They are a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hudson Holding Corp.