Samantha E. Shevins

Lord Abbett & Co. LLC (Lord Abbett) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor and mutual fund manager headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey. Founded in 1929, Lord Abbett provides advisory services to a variety of institutional clients, the Lord Abbett Funds and other registered investment companies sponsored by third parties, the Lord Abbett UCITS Funds, the Lord Abbett Luxembourg Fund, other foreign funds, privately offered commingled funds and various separately managed accounts.

A subsidiary of Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc., Lehman Brothers, Inc. is a broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. They provide global equity and fixed research. The equity research department covers more than 100 sectors. They use a fundamental, quantitative, strategic and tactical research approach. In addition to these Lehman has also developed special products, such as 10 uncommon values and 10 uncommon eurovalues.

Visium Asset Management LP is an independent hedge fund management firm founded by Jacob Gottlieb in 2005. Headquartered in New York City, the firm provides discretionary investment advisory services and sub-advisory services for various long/short equity, credit, event-driven and multi-strategy private investment funds, registered investment companies, an undertaking for collective investment in transferable securities organized under European Union Directors, and separately managed accounts.

Trellus Management Co. LLC is an independent hedge fund management firm headquartered in Delray Beach, Florida. The firm was founded by Adam Usdan in 1994 to manage assets of high net-worth investors.