Tom Higgins

James Capel, Inc. offers stock broking services. The company is based in New York, NY.

HSBC Continental Europe provides banking and asset management services. The firm offers corporate finance, treasury, capital markets, new issues and origination, and security services. The company was founded in 1894 and is headquartered in Paris, France.

Founded in 2002, Ardour Capital Investments LLC is a broker/dealer located in New York City. They provide a wide range of financial services for both public and private growth companies. They focus primarily on several sectors including alternative energy resources, distributed generation, environmental, energy efficiency and enabling technology. They provide independent research compiled by their network of industry specialists. They also maintain coverage of the sector's key publicly-traded companies

Founded in 2002, Maxim Group LLC is a registered broker/dealer located in New York City. The firm provides an array of financial services including: investment banking, equity research, private wealth management, structured products and global institutional equity, fixed-income and derivative sales and trading to a diverse range of corporate clients, institutional investors and high net-worth individuals. Maxim Group's niche is emerging-growth companies in a variety of sectors including healthcare, technology, retail and others. They utilize a fundamental, bottom-up approach to investment recommendations. The firm combines rigorous financial analysis of specific companies and industries with due diligence that includes frequent consults with suppliers, customers, competitors and senior management. The firm focuses on under-covered, small- to-mid-cap companies where valuation levels may be out of sync with fundamental trends. Maxim's coverage universe often represents attractive niche industries where stocks tend to be inefficient. This research coverage fills a void created by the downsized research ranks and shrinking coverage of small- to mid-cap stocks by large investment banks. Maxim Group is a member of FINRA, the MSRB, the SIPC, the ISE, NASDAQ and NYSE Arca.

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.