Michael Lacovara

Founded in 1988, Sandler O'Neill & Partners LP is a broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm is a subsidiary of Sandler O'Neill & Partners Corp. and their ultimate parent is SOP Holdings LLC. Sandler O'Neill & Partners' Equity Sales & Trading team seeks to enhance liquidity, execute complex transactions, distribute securities and provide institutional investor exposure for hundreds of financial institutions. Sandler O'Neill is a market maker for over 425 NASDAQ financial stocks and trades equities on all active exchanges including the NYSE, NASDAQ, OTC Bulletin Board and Pink Sheets. They work with CEOs, CFOs and management teams on corporate buybacks, portfolio valuations, rebalancings and liquidations. Sandler O'Neill publishes detailed equity research on approximately 270 financial services companies. They primarily cover small- and mid-sized companies that are not widely followed by large Wall Street firms. Their research coverage focuses on the following industries: (1) banks and thrifts (2) specialty finance and credit card companies (3) asset management (4) e-Finance (5) investment banking firms and broker/dealers (6) REITS (7) mortgage REITs and (8) insurance.

Sullivan & Cromwell LLP provides legal services. It specializes in the areas of corporate law, securities, corporate, litigation, mergers, real estate, pro bono, investment management and taxation. Their clients include industrial, commercial, financial, private funds, governmental, educational, charitable and cultural enterprises and entities. The company was founded by Algernon Sydney Sullivan and William Nelson Cromwell in 1879 and is headquartered in New York City, NY.

Founded in 2003 by Cliff Rodman and Charles Renshaw, Rodman & Renshaw LLC is a full-service investment bank and broker/dealer located in New York City with an additional office in Boston. The firm is a subsidiary of Rodman & Renshaw Capital Group (NasdaqGM: RODM). The firm provides corporate finance, strategic advisory and related services to public and private companies across multiple sectors and regions. They also provide research and sales and trading services to institutional investors. Rodman & Renshaw is a leader in the PIPE and RD (registered direct offering) transaction markets. The firm's research focuses on Asia, clean technology, community & regional banks, energy, industrial and commercial services, life science/healthcare and metals and mining. Rodman & Renshaw is a member of the NASD and the SIPC.

Direct Markets Holdings Corp. provides investment banking services through its subsidiaries. It provides corporate finance, strategic advisory, research and sales and trading services to institutional investors. The company was founded on December 20, 2006 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Cambridge in America provides alumni network relations services. They help build a community of Cambridge University alumni and friends throughout the United States. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Cortview Capital Holdings, Inc. provides financial and brokerage services. It operates through its subsidiary Cortview Capital Securities LLC. The company is headquartered in Richmond, VA.

Cortview Capital Securities LLC (Member FINRA, SIPC) offers relationship-driven, client-focused service across the full-suite of fixed income products. Regionally focused but national in scope, Cortview's professionals serve their middle-market customers by deploying both deep knowledge of the financial and capital markets and their substantial trading capital to facilitate its customers' portfolio and trading strategies and needs. Cortview was founded by seasoned industry professionals and is backed by a $125 million capital commitment from leading global private equity firm Warburg Pincus. They use that capital for customer-driven trading, to pursue their expansion to recognized centers of middle-market expertise, and to deepen their product and service offerings across not only sales and trading, but also to origination, securitization and advisory services. They are headquartered in Richmond, VA, and presently have offices in New York, Charlotte, NC, and Boca Raton, FL. They shall open additional offices across the country as they attract additional experienced middle-markets sales and trading, securitization and advisory talent to serve their growing customer base. Cortview Capital Securities LLC is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Cortview Capital Holdings Inc.