Byron B. Thouret

Royal Bank Financial Group provides financial services, including issuing money in various forms, receiving deposits of money, lending money and processing transactions and the creating of credit. The company is headquartered in Langley, Canada.

BMO Nesbitt Burns Corp. Ltd. engages in providing security brokerage, underwriting and investment advisory services. The company is headquartered in Montreal, Canada.

HSBC Securities (Canada), Inc. is a full service broker/dealer located in Toronto, Ontario. The firm is a subsidiary of HSBC Holdings Plc (NYSE: HCS, NasdaqGS: HSBA). They are a member of the TMX Group, the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC) and the Canadian Investor Protection Fund (CIPF). The firm offers their clients advisory and execution products and services in the following areas: M&A advisory, equity and debt capital markets, leveraged and acquisition financing, foreign exchange, fixed-income, derivatives and structured products. HSBC Securities specializes in 4 global sectors: financial institutions, consumer/retail Resources, energy and diversified Industries.

Sherbrooke Street Capital, Inc. is an independent, full-service brokerage firm and investment dealer located in Montreal, Quebec. The firm was founded in 2004 by the late Sam Zacchia, when he acquired and renamed the former investment division of GGA, which he had formed and built over a number of years. Sherbrooke Street Capital is a member of the IIROC and the CIPF. Their 2 main business divisions are personal wealth management and capital markets. Sherbrooke Street Capital offers a full spectrum of personal wealth management services, ranging from investment management to retirement planning, estate and life insurance planning and tax planning. The firm's capital markets team acts on an agency basis to conduct transactions between institutional clients, such as governments and pension fund managers. They participate in the underwriting of new bond and equity issues and provide secondary market support to both institutional clients, as well as individual investors. Sherbrooke Street Capital specializes in the Canadian fixed-income primary and secondary markets. The firm transacts securities of all types of issuers including: (1) the Canadian federal government (2) crown corporations (3) provincial governments (4) cities and municipalities (5) publicly-listed companies (6) American and European governments and (7) foreign corporate issuers. Sherbrooke Street Capital offers services across the full spectrum of fixed-income securities including: (1) t-bills (2) bankers acceptance notes (3) corporate notes (4) straight bonds (5) zero-coupons (6) zero-interest residuals (7) callable bonds (8) puttable/extendible bonds (9) fixed floaters (10) floating rate securities and (11) step-up interest securities.