Jon Mabrey Plexico

Quidel Corp. engages in the development, manufacture and market of rapid diagnostic testing solutions. Its portfolio includes rapid immunoassays, cardiac immunoassays, specialized diagnostic solutions and molecular diagnostic solutions. The firm products are directly sold to end users and distributors and for professional use in physician offices, hospitals, clinical laboratories, reference laboratories, urgent care clinics, universities, retail clinics, pharmacies and wellness screening centers. The company was founded in 1979 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Zila, Inc., headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona and founded in 1988, is a diagnostic company that offers prevention, detection and treatment of oral cancer and periodontal disease. Zila manufactures and markets ViziLite Plus with TBlue (“ViziLite Plus”), the company’s product for the detection of oral abnormalities that could lead to cancer. ViziLite Plus is a medical device for use in a popilation risking for oral cancer. Zila designs, manufactures and markets products sold directly to dental professionals for periodontal disease, including the Rotadent Professional Powered Brush, the Pro-Select Platinum ultrasonic scaler and oral pharmaceutical products for both in-office and home-care use

Ventro Corp. provides e-commerce solutions.

Viveve, Inc. engages in the development of medical devices that promote personal health and wellness. It offers InControl products and Viveve system solutions. The company was founded by Jonathan B. Parmer in 2005 and is headquartered in Englewood, CO.

Stonepine Capital Management LLC (Stonepine) is an independent registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in Bend, Oregon. The firm was founded by Jon M. Plexico in 2006. Stonepine serves as the general partner and investment adviser to a private investment fund.

Founded in 1986, Merriman Capital, Inc. is an SEC-registered broker/dealer and investment banking firm headquartered in San Francisco. The firm is a subsidiary of Merriman Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: MERR), a financial services firm that focuses on fast-growing companies and their institutional investors. Merriman provides advisory and investment banking, equity research, institutional services, corporate services and venture services primarily to corporate clients. Merriman Capital provides research, brokerage and trading services primarily to institutional clients. The firm offers a full range of specialized and integrated services including: equity research, specialized trade execution, equity capital markets, corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, sales and trading, market making, corporate and venture services, restructurings and strategic advisory services. Merriman Capital employs bottom-up, fundamental analysis of small-cap companies in select industries including clean technology, healthcare, technology and consumer/Internet/media. The firm also has expertise in emerging markets, with emphasis on emerging markets in China. Merriman Capital is known to engage in shareholder activist investment strategies. Merriman Capital is a member of the NASD, the SIPC and FINRA. The firm serves as an introducing broker/dealer for Pershing LLC. They do not hold or maintain funds or securities or provide clearing services for other broker/dealers.

Immunetech, Inc. develops viral antigens and anti-viral antibodies for the diagnosis, monitoring, and treatment of significant viral infectious diseases. The private company is based in San Mateo.