Mark Christopher McDonnell

Optimum Quantvest Corp. (OQC) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Dallas, Texas. The firm was founded in 1987 and is a subsidiary of Optimum Holdings, Inc., ultimately owned by Gampoti, Inc. OQC offers discretionary supervisory portfolio management of securities portfolio services to pensions, insurance companies, corporations, endowments, foundations, individual and high-net worth individuals.

Hillswick Asset Management LLC is a registered investment advisor located in Stamford, Connecticut. The firm was originally formed in 1987 as ABB Investment Management. In 1998, they were acquired by and became SEB Asset Management America, Inc. In 2004, the firm became Hillswick Asset Management, LLC as a result of the senior management buyout of the SEB fixed income business. Hillswick manages client funds held in separately managed accounts or invested in their private fund, or both. The firm offers portfolio management services to institutions and high net-worth individuals.

A member of the NASD and the SIPC, Baird, Patrick & Co., Inc. is a full-service investment firm headquartered Jersey City, New Jersey. The firm was founded in 1950 as an investment banking company. They service the needs of retail and institutional salesmen, traders and investment bankers. Over the years they have established numerous profit center partnerships with their employees. These profit centers, which are founded on solid business plans, are structured to maximize the income of the principals (partners) managing them, while at the same time minimizing overall business risk. Profit centers include, convertible arbitrage, brokers' broker in non-convertible preferred stock, institutional research and sales, municipal bond underwriting and sales, money management, investment banking, business consulting and over-the-counter trading. Baird, Patrick has over-the-counter market making capabilities and their traders make markets in hundreds of stocks. They clear trades through Pershing LLC. In an effort to avoid conflicts of interest, Baird, Patrick elects not to employ proprietary research analysts; instead they provide outside research from a variety of well regarded sources such as Argus, CS First Boston and Standard & Poors.