Bill Gibson

ROTH Capital Partners LLC is a broker/dealer headquartered in Newport Beach, California. The firm was founded in 2001 and is a subsidiary of CR Financial Holdings, Inc. They offer institutional sales and trading services. Their broad institutional coverage includes investors in North America, Canada, UK, Europe and other international territories.

Part of Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc., Shearson Lehman Bros., Inc. provides security broker services. The company is based in New York, NY.

Founded in 1948, Anderson & Strudwick, Inc. is a full-service investment firm located in Richmond, Virginia. They have offices in Charleston, South Carolina, Charlotte, North Carolina, Charlottesville, Virginia, Columbia, South Carolina, Fredericksburg, Virginia, Knoxville, Tennessee and Norfolk, Virginia. The firm focuses on identifying securities with positive market strength and earnings acceleration which are undervalued on an asset basis. They follow the utilities, consumer durables and consumer specialties sectors. Anderson & Strudwick also tracks Virginia companies, including community banks.

Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, Banc of America Securities (BAS) is the investment banking subsidiary of Bank of America Corp (NYSE: BAC). The firm provides both the domestic and international equity and investment banking markets, and pursues a strategy pioneered by Citigroup that combines corporate lending with investment banking advice and services. They provide high-yield debt underwriting and leveraged finance, in addition to industry coverage groups such as healthcare, media and telecom, financial institutions, real estate and gaming. BAS also does a significant amount of work for Financial Sponsors, or private equity firms, often financing leveraged transactions. Following the strategy of Goldman Sachs, the firm lacks a standalone mergers and acquisitions department, instead employing mergers and acquisitions senior bankers throughout the industry coverage groups. The firm is registered as a broker/dealer with the SEC, is a member of the NYSE, and the NASD. The use of Banc in the BAS's name is indicative of the fact that the company is not a bank, and their deposits and other holdings are not insured by the FDIC.

Nollenberger Capital Partners, Inc. offers securities brokerage, asset management, equity research and fixed income trading to institutional and wealthy individual investors. Founded in 2002 by Chief Executive Officer Bruce Nollenberger, Nollenberger Capital Partners, Inc. is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Newport Beach, California, San Jose, California and New York City.