John Christopher Howe

Old Hill Partners, Inc. is an alternative asset manager headquartered in Darien, Connecticut. The firm is a subsidiary of Spouting Rock Asset Management LLC, ultimately owned by Spouting Rock Financial Partners LLC. The firm was founded by John C. Howe in 1996. Old Hill Partners provides discretionary investment advisory services to private credit funds and managed accounts that serve private wealth, family offices, and institutional investors, with a focus on income generation.

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.

Nomura Securities International, Inc. (NSI) is a registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City and was founded in 1969. The firm is a division of Nomura Holding America, Inc. and their ultimate parent is Nomura Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: NMR, TYO: 8604, AMS: 8604). NSI provides securities brokerage services, as well as asset management, domestic retail, global markets, global investment banking and global merchant banking services. The firm's fixed-income business consists of bond sales and trading, origination and product supply for securitization deals and real estate-focused asset finance operations (in cooperation with Investment Banking). In the equity markets, NSI offers sales and trading of domestic and foreign stocks on a global basis, primarily for institutional investors.