Robert E. Garrison

SMH Capital, Inc. (SMH) is the primary broker subsidiary of Sander Morris Harris Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: SMHG). The firm is headquartered in Houston, Texas with additional offices in Los Angeles and San Francisco. SMH provides a full range of asset and wealth management and investment banking services. The firm also offers institutional equity sales, trading, and research, as well as prime brokerage services for hedge funds and fixed-income securities sales and trading. SMH's research effort is attuned to the Southwest, yet takes a broad, global perspective. The analysts cover companies in six broad sectors, including business services, energy, entertainment and media, financial services, specialty retail-softlines, and technology. They look at industries in a bottom-up way, and get to know company managements in depth, to understand their growth philosophy and their views of how their company fits within their group. SMH's growth strategy is to expand asset management and fiduciary activities and related business by increasing assets under management through acquisitions, internal growth and better coordination between their subsidiaries.

Pinnacle Summer Investments, Inc. provides wealth management services. It services include investment advice, investment management and financial planning. The company was founded by Don A. Sanders in January 2000 and is headquartered in Fairfax, VA.

FirstCity Financial Corp. provides financial services to banks, credit unions and insurance companies with investments in non-performing loans. The company was founded in 1950 and is headquartered in Waco, TX.

Crown Castle International Corp. owns, operates and leases shared wireless infrastructure, including towers and other structures such as rooftops, distributed antenna systems and interests in land under third party towers in various forms. The company's core business is to provide access, including space or capacity, to its towers, and to a lesser extent, to its small cells and third party land interests via long-term contracts in various forms, including license, sublease and lease agreements. It operates its business through two segments: Crown Castle United States of America and Crown Castle Australia. The Crown Castle United States of America segment provides access to wireless carriers under long-term contracts for their antennas which transmit a variety of signals related to wireless voice and data. The Crown Castle Australia segment provides access to antenna space on towers to its customers. This segment also provides a range of services, including site maintenance and property management services for towers owned by third parties. Crown Castle International was founded by Edward C. Hutcheson Jr. and Ted B. Miller Jr. in 1994 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Sanders Morris Harris LLC (SMH) is an SEC-registered broker-dealer and member FINRA, SIPC, located in Houston, Texas. The firm is also an SEC-registered investment advisor. SMH was formed in January 2000 as the result of a merger between Sanders Morris Mundy, Inc. and Harris Webb & Garrison, Inc. The firm is now wholly-owned by Summer Wealth Management LLC. The ultimate principal owners of Summer Wealth Management, LLC are Lee Equity Partners LLC and The Edelman Financial Center, Inc. through intermediaries. SMH provides provides brokerage, asset management and similar services to individuals, high net-worth individuals, pension and profit sharing plans, trusts, estates, and corporations and other business entities.

Salient Capital Management LLC provides asset and wealth management services. It offers services to high net worth and affluent individuals and smaller institutions including financial and estate planning, trusts and custody services. The company was founded on May 28, 2003 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Prosperity Bank (www.prosperitybank.com) is a $1 Billion community bank with 18 banking offices located in Bay, Clay, Columbia, Duval, Flagler, Nassau, Putnam, St. Johns and Volusia counties. Prosperity Bank offers a complete line of banking and other related financial services to commercial and retail customers. Prosperity is the 20th largest bank chartered in Florida, named Outstanding Corporation by the Association of Fundraising Professionals for National Philanthropy Day, one of the 25 Companies That Care by Jacksonville Magazine ('04-'05, '07-'10), voted 'Best Bank' for the eleventh year in a row by the St. Augustine Record, a recipient of a Jefferson Award from HandsOn Jacksonville, a recipient of the Florida Governor's Business Partner Award for Excellence for its partnership with the Flagler County School District, and selected as the Clay County Business Excellence Award recipient by the Clay County Chamber of Commerce.