Brad Tuyn

Founded in 2002, Tidewater Capital Management, Inc. is a hedge fund manager located in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. They manage the Tidewater Opportunity Fund LP and the Tidewater Partners Fund LP.

Headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Newbridge Securities Corp. is a full-service securities brokerage and investment bank. They provide services to a broad based group of individuals and corporate clients. The core focus of their institutional research department is to identify companies with substantial, but realistic growth potential and whose shares are attractively valued. It is this attention to high-growth segments of the market that lead them to identify nanotechnology as an emerging trend that is spawning innovation in a range of industrial sectors. Newbridge is a member of the NASD and the SIPC. They are a subsidiary of Pershing LLC. Their ultimate parent is The Bank of New York Mellon Corp. (NYSE: BK).

The Boston Co. Holding LLC is a company that specializes in commercial banking. The company is based in Pittsburgh, PA.

Sterling Research Group, Inc. use to provide market research services for clients in industries such as advertising, financial services, hospitality and retail. Its services included survey research, service recovery management and comprehensive analysis and managerially oriented reports. It also involved in customer satisfaction research using focus groups and surveys conducted by phone, through the mail and on the web. The company was founded by Janice F. Haueisen and William D. Haueisen in 1987 and was headquartered in St. Petersburg, FL.

Harvard Management Co., Inc. (HMC) is the investment arm of President & Fellows of Harvard College, which is owned by Harvard University, a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The firm was founded in 1974 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. HMC manages Harvard’s endowment, a dedicated and permanent source of funding that maintains the teaching and research mission of the University. HMC invests these funds as a single entity, the revenue from which contributes more than one-third of the University's annual operating budget.