Michael Gary Ball

Jackson National Life Distributors, Inc. distributes life insurance products. It wholesales and distributes retail products including variable, fixed index annuities, and mutual funds to independent and regional broker-dealers, independent agents, and financial institutions. It is a subsidiary of Jackson National Life Insurance Co. The company is headquartered in Denver, CO.

Transamerica Corp. provides financial planning and insurance services. It offers life insurance, long term care, dental insurance, medicare solutions, commercial lending, retirement planning, leasing, annuities, and real estate services. The company was founded by Amadeo P. Giannini in 1904 and is headquartered in Cedar Rapids, IA.

Part of Western & Southern Mutual Holding Co., Constellation Investment Management Co., LP is a company that manages mutual funds in an employee-owned mutual fund company. The company is based in Berwyn, PA. Constellation Investment Management Co. was acquired by Touchstone Advisors, Inc. on March 08, 2006. The company was founded by Jason Frederick Michael Moede.

Founded in 1995 by Steven Bathgate, GVC Capital LLC, formerly Bathgate Capital Partners LLC, is an investment banking firm and broker/dealer located Greenwood Village, Colorado. The firm focuses primarily on providing comprehensive investment banking services to underexposed and undervalued micro-cap companies. GVC Capital's brokerage services include retail investment sales, institutional equity and fixed-income securities. The firm is a member of FINRA and the SIPC. GVC Capital seeks to provide their retail clients with greater exposure to institutional investors as efficient means to raising capital in the form of institutional private placement financings and a variety of other investment products including municipal bonds, government securities, mutual funds, annuities, options and equities. The firm also offers accredited investors periodic opportunities to participate in private placements (Regulation D) and IPOs for select emerging growth companies. GVC Capital's accounts are maintained and cleared by First Southwest Company. The firm's fixed-income group seeks to provide their clients with best execution. They provide independent advisory services and research focusing on a diverse universe of fixed-income securities including corporate, government and municipal bonds, convertible and mortgage-backed securities and preferred stocks. GVC Capital's equity trading group focuses on efficient trade execution of micro-cap companies and identifying and creating liquidity in illiquid markets.

AllianceBernstein LP (AB) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and mutual fund manager headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee. Founded in 2000, the firm is owned by Equitable Financial Life Insurance Co., ultimately held by Equitable Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: EQH). AB provides investment advice to investment companies, pension and profit-sharing plans, banks and thrift institutions, trusts, estates, government agencies, charitable organizations, individuals, corporations and other business entities.