Dan S. Wilford

Security Bank Corp. provides a wide variety of community banking services through its six banking subsidiaries in the northern metropolitan area of Atlanta in the State of Georgia. The company's subsidiary banks include Security Bank of Bibb County, Security Bank of Jones County, Security Bank of Gwinnett County, Security Bank of Houston County, Security Bank of North Metro and Security Bank of North Fulton. It offers construction, land development loans, real estate mortgage loans and commercial, financial, and agricultural loans. The company was founded on June 18, 1951 and is headquartered in Macon, GA.

LHC Group, Inc. engages in the provision of post-acute health care services to patients through its home nursing agencies, hospitals, and long-term acute care hospitals. It operates through the following segments: Home Health, Hospice, Home and Community-based, Facility-based, and HCI. The Home Based segment offers services through nursing, medically-oriented social services, and physical, occupational and speech therapy. The Hospice includes pain and symptom management, emotional and spiritual support, inpatient and respite care, homemaker services, and counseling. The Home and Community-based involves in providing assistance to elderly, chronically ill, and disabled patients with activities of daily living. The Facility-based segments operates LTACH. The HCI segment reports developmental activities outside its other business segments. The company was founded by Keith G. Myers in September 1994 and is headquartered in Lafayette, LA.

Memorial Hermann Healthcare System is a not-for-profit organization that provces healthcare services. It specializes in cancer, children's health, digestive health, emergency services, heart and vascular care, neurosurgery, orthopedics, rehab and physical therapy, and sleep medicine. The firm also offer imaging and diagnostic services. The company was founded 1907 and is located in Houston, TX.

HRTI LLC is a real estate investment trust. It owns, leases, manages, acquires, finances, develops, and redevelops income-producing real estate properties associated primarily with the delivery of outpatient healthcare services throughout the United States of America. The company was founded by David R. Emery in 1992 and is headquartered in Nashville, TN.

SMH Capital, Inc. (SMH) is the primary broker subsidiary of Sander Morris Harris Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: SMHG). The firm is headquartered in Houston, Texas with additional offices in Los Angeles and San Francisco. SMH provides a full range of asset and wealth management and investment banking services. The firm also offers institutional equity sales, trading, and research, as well as prime brokerage services for hedge funds and fixed-income securities sales and trading. SMH's research effort is attuned to the Southwest, yet takes a broad, global perspective. The analysts cover companies in six broad sectors, including business services, energy, entertainment and media, financial services, specialty retail-softlines, and technology. They look at industries in a bottom-up way, and get to know company managements in depth, to understand their growth philosophy and their views of how their company fits within their group. SMH's growth strategy is to expand asset management and fiduciary activities and related business by increasing assets under management through acquisitions, internal growth and better coordination between their subsidiaries.

MedServe, Inc. provides medical waste treatment services. The firm offers mobile medical waste treatment services, waste liability management, waste minimization programs, sharps tracking and retrieval, medical waste collection, transport, treatment and disposal services. The company was founded by Michael Fields, Roger A. Ramsey, Steven W. Fields and James C. Hazlewood in 2004 and is headquartered in Lake Forest, IL.

Pinnacle Summer Investments, Inc. provides wealth management services. It services include investment advice, investment management and financial planning. The company was founded by Don A. Sanders in January 2000 and is headquartered in Fairfax, VA.

North Mississippi Health Services, Inc. provides health care services. The firm offers cardiothoracic surgery, digestive health, community health, critical care, diabetes treatment, emergency, family medicine, heart care, home health and hospice, joint replacement and medical imaging services. The company was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Tupelo, MS.