Emanuel Wilkes

Jackson Securities LLC is a full-service investment bank and broker/dealer headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. The firm was founded by Maynard H. Jackson in 1987 and they are a subsidiary of Atlanta Life Financial Group. In 2005, Jackson Securities merged with Chicago-based Berean Capital, Inc. The firm provides investment banking and brokerage services to institutional and retail clients. Their services include public finance, tax-exempt underwriting sales and trading, corporate syndication and wealth management.

Founded by Chris Gardner in 1987, Gardner Rich LLC, formerly Gardner Rich & Co., is an NASD-registered broker/dealer located in Chicago. The firm's core business is institutional securities brokerage services, but they also participate in corporate underwriting. Their brokerage services include trading in global markets through both ordinary and ADR form. Gardner Rich specializes in providing services to public pension funds and Taft-Hartley plans. The firm provides a full array of trading and execution services for their clients. They do not provide any internal research.