David John McCaffrey

Advest Group, Inc. provides securities brokerage, investment banking and financial advisory services. Their services encompass equities, mutual funds, fixed income and insurance products for individual investors. The company is located in Hartford, CT.

Founded in 1972 by Candace King, C.L. King & Associates, Inc. is a self-clearing, service-oriented broker/dealer and investment bank located in Albany, New York with additional offices in Boston and New York City. The firm delivers investment research, equity and fixed-income sales and trading, prime brokerage, investment advisor and clearing services to institutional and high net-worth clients and to other broker/dealers. For corporations, they underwrite securities and provide strategic advice in connection with mergers, acquisitions, strategic alternatives and valuation. C.L. King & Associates is a member of FINRA and the SIPC. C.L. King & Associates follows 120 names in 9 sectors. They seek to discover uncovered investment opportunities by seeking out companies that may be ignored by other Wall Street research providers and by identifying value and growth that may be unrecognized by institutional equity investors. The firm provides comprehensive trading services including capital commitment, market making and listed block positioning for their institutional equity clients. C.L. King & Associates' fixed-income group focuses on trading fixed-income securities, primarily in the secondary market. They offer a broad cross section of agencies, convertibles, investment-grade corporates, mortgage-backed securities, municipals, CDs and preferred stock to other broker/Dealers and institutional investors. The firm's investment banking group provides strategic M&A advice and capital raising services to emerging and mid-cap companies, both public and private. In addition, they act as a WBE underwriter in stock and bond offerings by large corporate issuers. C.L. King & Associates' corporate services group offers specialized services to assist corporate clients and their executives in handling delicate stock holding matters. Their services include guiding clients through restricted stock/rule 144 transactions, developing customized rule 10b5-1 trading plans and managing corporate share repurchase programs. The firm's equity research is based on a fundamental, value-oriented approach that focuses on small- and mid-cap companies. The firm offers research on the following sectors: special situations, building materials companies, specialty retail/apparel/footwear, industrials/cyclicals, restaurants/franchising, business services/staffing companies, telecommunications equipment and medical technology/devices/supplies.

Founded in 2007, JP Marvel Investment Advisors LLC is a registered investment advisor located in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm provides customized investment supervisory services to individuals, trusts, estates, or charitable organizations, and corporations or business entities. They also sponsor the Captain Fund I LLC.

Founded in 1992 by Paul Christopherson, New Vernon Associates, Inc. is an independent investment research firm and SEC-registered broker/dealer located in Parsippany, New Jersey. The firm is affiliated with private equity firm New Vernon Capital LLC. New Vernon Associates provides services exclusively to institutional investors. Their research coverage focuses primarily on the chemicals, biotechnology and pharmaceutical sectors.

Burlington Capital Group LLC offers real estate development and management services, money management and agribusiness opportunities in the emerging markets. The company was founded by Michael B. Yanney in 1984 and is headquartered in Omaha, NE.

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.