Juan Jarrah

Founded in 2002, Thomas Weisel Partners Canada, Inc., formerly Westwind Partners, Inc., is an institutional investment bank, investment advisor and broker/dealer headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. The firm is a subsidiary of Thomas Weisel Partners Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: TWPG), a San Francisco-based investment banking firm. Their ultimate parent is Stifel Financial Corp. (NYSE: SF). Thomas Weisel Partners Canada specializes in the growth sectors of the economy with a particular focus on the consumer, energy, healthcare, Internet, media, telecommunications, metals/mining and technology sectors. They provide equity research on US, Canadian and UK-listed companies, equity trading capabilities and advice to corporations on M&A, financing and restructuring transactions. Thomas Weisel Partners Canada is a member of the CIPF/FCPE and the IIROC.

TD Securities, Inc. is a Canadian broker/dealer headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. The firm is a subsidiary of The Toronto-Dominion Bank (NYSE, TSE: TD). TD Securities provides a wide range of capital market products and services to corporate, government and institutional clients. Their services also include the underwriting and distribution of new debt and equity issues, providing advice on strategic acquisitions and divestitures and executing daily trading and investment needs. The firm’s equity group provides research coverage of various sectors. Their fixed-income group provides a full range of underwriting sales and trading products for Canadian, US and European debt issuers and investors.

Lafarge SA engaged in the production and marketing of building materials. It produces and sells cement, aggregates and ready-mix concrete. The company's building products and solutions were used to construct and renovate homes, buildings and infrastructures. It provided its services under the brand name Lafarge. The company operated through the following divisions: Cement, and Aggregates and Concrete. The Cement division produced and sold a wide range of cement and hydraulic binders adapted to the needs of the construction industry. It also offered specialty cements suitable for use in a variety of environmental conditions and specific applications, natural lime hydraulic binders, masonry cements, and ground blast furnace slag. The Aggregates and Concrete division produced and sold aggregates, ready mix concrete, and products relating to paving activities. It also offered plaster based products which include plaster plate, plaster squares, coatings, metal framework and industrial plaster. Lafarge was founded by Joseph-Auguste Pavin de Lafarge in 1833 and was headquartered in Toulouse, France.

Novotech (Australia) Pty Ltd. operates as a contract research organization. It provides clinical development services across all clinical trial phases and therapeutic areas including: feasibility assessments; ethics committee and regulatory submissions, data management, statistical analysis, medical monitoring, safety services and central lab services. The firm offers patient recruitment and site selection, clinical operations and project management, medical and regulatory consulting, biometrics and data management solutions. The company was founded by Alek Safarian in 1996 and is headquartered in Sydney, Australia.