Deborah G. George

HSBC Global Asset Management (USA), Inc. (AMUS) is the US-based wholly-owned investment advisory and fund management subsidiary of HSBC USA, Inc., and is indirectly owned by HSBC Holdings Plc (LON: HSBA, NYSE: HBC) in Great Britain. The firm was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in New York City. AMUS provides discretionary and non-discretionary advisory services to clients in several major markets and is a multi-product provider of investment and fund management services. For institutions, the firm provides active and tailored portfolio management on a global, regional, asset-class and country specific basis. They also serve as investment adviser to US registered investment companies. AMUS is a signatory to the UN-supported Principles of responsible Investment (UNPRI).

Founded in 1989, Lombardia Capital Partners LLC is a employee and minority-owned registered investment advisor headquartered in Pasadena, California. The firm was formerly known as Valenzuela Capital Partners LLC. Lombardia Capital provides investment advisory services to institutional, public, corporate, and not-for-profit clients.

Blaylock & Co., Inc. is a full-service institutional securities firm providing investment banking, capital markets, sales and trading and other related services to large-cap and emerging growth to middle-market corporations and sponsors. Blaylock's Debt Capital Markets group is responsible for soliciting, structuring and executing debt and related product businesses, including new issues of both public and private debt. In both debt and equity, they provide clients with a multi-tiered distribution platform that specializes in Tier II and III investor relationships in addition to large Tier I accounts. The Equity Capital Markets group undertakes the origination, structuring, marketing and pricing of public offerings and private placements of equity and equity-related securities. They also advise institutional clients on financing strategies in the context of merger and acquisition activity and public market restructurings and monetization programs. Blaylock was founded in 1993 by Ronald E. Blaylock and was incorporated as Blaylock & Co. in April 2005. Headquartered in New York City, Blaylock is a member of the NASD and the SIPC.

FOURPOINTS Asset Management, Inc. (FOURPOINTS) is an independent wealth management firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded by Béatrice Philippe in 1981. FOURPOINTS provides long-only equity investment advisory services to US and European-based individuals and institutions.

Logan Capital Management, Inc. (Logan Capital) is employee-owned, SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania. The firm was founded in 1993 by Al Besse, Stephen S. Lee, and Dana H. Stewardson. Logan Capital provides investment supervisory services either on a discretionary or non-discretionary basis to institutions, individuals and high net-worth individuals, corporations or other business entities, registered investment companies (mutual funds), private comingled funds/pooled investment vehicles, endowments, foundations, and trusts, private pensions and profit sharing plans (ERISA), insurance companies, public funds, Taft-Hartley Plans, wrap programs, and sub-advisory relationships to RIAs and broker-dealers.