Patrick J. Flam

Cowen & Co. LLC is a SEC-registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2004 and is a subsidiary of Cowen Holdings, Inc., ultimately owned by The Toronto-Dominion Bank (TSE: TD) in Canada. Cowen & Co. offers industry-focused investment banking for growth-oriented companies, domain knowledge-driven research and a sales and trading platform for institutional investors. Their institutional sales and trading business serves both equity and fixed-income clients. Sales and trading execution platform is structured around the following key verticals: (1) healthcare (2) technology, telecommunications and media (TMT) (3) REITs and financials (4) aerospace and defense (5) consumer and (6) alternative energy.

UBS Securities LLC is an investment bank and registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1998 as UBS Warburg LLC. They are a subsidiary of UBS Americas Holding LLC, ultimately held by UBS Group AG (SWX: UBSG, NYSE: UBS) in Switzerland. UBS Securities is a primary dealer in US Government securities and provides a full range of investment banking services which includes corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, trading and sales, fixed-income, equity research, private banking, underwriting and prime brokerage operations. The firm also provides advisory services and access to capital markets for corporate, institutional, intermediary and alternative asset management clients.

Capital One Bank (USA) NA provides banking services. It offers checking accounts; credit and debit cards; loans; insurance; payment protection; phone banking; bills payment; lending; and online banking services. It provides financial products and services to consumers, small businesses, and commercial clients. The company was founded by Richard D. Fairbank on November 1994 and is headquartered in McLean, VA.

JPMorgan Securities LLC (JPMS) is a securities brokerage firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1985 and is a subsidiary of JPMorgan Broker-Dealer Holdings, Inc., ultimately held by JPMorgan Chase & Co., Inc. (NYSE: JPM). JPMS provides research on fixed income, credit, derivatives, emerging markets, foreign exchange, structured finance, technical analysis and bond indices. Their equity analysts cover equities throughout North America, EMEA, Asia/Pacific and the emerging markets. The firm's fixed income team formulates trading and portfolio recommendations for investors in global bonds and other fixed-income markets based on valuations, analytics and market dynamics.

Founded in 2004, TD Securities (USA) LLC is a broker/dealer located in New York City with additional offices in Toronto, Montreal, Calgary, Vancouver, London, Singapore, Tokyo and Sydney. The firm is a subsidiary of Toronto Dominion Holdings (USA), Inc. and their ultimate parent is Toronto-Dominion Bank (NYSE: TD). TD Securities (USA) provides a wide range of capital market products and services to corporate, government and institutional clients in five areas of finance including: investment banking, debt capital markets, institutional equities, foreign exchange and money markets. Their services include the underwriting and distribution of new debt and equity issues, providing advice on strategic acquisitions and divestitures and executing daily trading and investment needs. The equity group provides research coverage of media and communications, technology, financial services, oil and gas, mining and metals, industrial products, forest products, technology, utilities and power, real estate, biotechnology, consumer products and merchandising and quantitative analysis strategy. The fixed-income group provides a full range of underwriting sales and trading products for Canadian, U.S. and European debt issuers and investors.

Redburn (USA) LLC is an independent institutional equities broker located in New York City. The firm was formerly known as Redburn Partners USA LLC. Redburn (USA) is the US arm of London-based Redburn (Europe) Ltd. The firm provides institutional investors with conflict-free research and agency execution in the Pan-European equity markets. They provide coverage of the following industries: alternative energy, automotive, banks, beverages, chemicals, food manufacturing, food retail, general retail, insurance, investment banks/diversified financials, luxury goods, medical equipment/services, metals/mining, pharmaceuticals, roving research, technology (software and hardware), telecommunications, transportation and utilities.

Founded in 1987, Johnson Rice & Co. LLC is an institutional research and brokerage firm located in New Orleans, Louisiana. In 1991, the firm began offering investment banking services. Johnson Rice & Co. focuses primarily on the energy and specialty retail sectors

Founded in 2001, Macquarie Capital (USA), Inc. is a registered broker/dealer located in New York City. The firm is a subsidiary of Macquarie Bank Ltd. (ASX: MBL). They provide coverage of the following industries: resources, healthcare, security/defense, transportation, financial services, retail/consumer products, TMET (telecommunications, media, entertainment and technology), oil & gas, diversified manufacturing/distribution and infrastructure/utilities. Macquarie Capital (USA), Inc. is a member of FINRA.

Thompson Street Capital Managers LLC (Thompson Street Capital) is a private equity subsidiary of Thompson Street Capital Partners LLC, founded in 2000 by James A. Cooper and Peter Finley. The firm is headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri.

Mount Yale Capital Group LLC (Mount Yale) is an investment management firm headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The firm was founded by Greg Anderson in 1999 and is a subsidiary of Dalton Capital LLC. Mount Yale provides individuals, families, endowments, and foundations with access to research, custom portfolio solutions and high-quality investment strategies.

Deloitte Tax LLP provides tax services. The firm offers corporate, management, and individual advisory. The company is headquartered in New York, NY.

BMO Capital Markets Corp. (Broker) is the broker/dealer division of BMO Capital Markets Corp., a full-service North American financial services provider headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1998 and is a subsidiary of BMO Financial Corp., which is owned by Bank of Montreal (NYSE, TSX: BMO) in Canada. BMO Capital Markets offers corporate, institutional and government clients access to a variety of products and services including equity and debt underwriting, corporate lending and project financing, merger and acquisitions advisory services, merchant banking, securitization, treasury and market risk management, debt and equity research and institutional sales and trading.

Plains Ventures (Plains Ventures) is a venture capital subsidiary of i2E Inc founded in 2002. The firm is headquartered in Oklahoma City.

Founded in 1958, Merrill Lynch Piece Fenner & Smith, Inc. is an SEC registered broker/dealer located in New York City. The firm is a subsidiary of BAC North America Holding Co. and their ultimate parent is Bank of America Corp. (NYSE BAC).

Evercore Group LLC is a SEC-registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1995 and is a subsidiary of Evercore BD Investco LLC, which is owned by Evercore, Inc. (NYSE: EVR). Evercore Group delivers equity research and equity sales and agency trading execution, in addition to providing wealth and investment management services to high net worth and institutional investors.

The Foundation Group LLC is a private company based in Timonium, MD that provides real estate services.

Wolfe Research LLC is a FINRA-registered sell-side research firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded by Edward Wolfe in 2008 and is a subsidiary of Wolfe Holdco LLC. Wolfe Research provides bespoke research of various stocks in every major GIC sector for institutional clients. The firm has established a reputation for macro research underpinning coverage in Industrials, Utilities/Energy, Consumer/Retail, Financials/REITS, Healthcare and TMT.

Part of Lamb Weston Holdings, Inc., ConAgra Foods Lamb Weston, Inc. is a company that manufactures and wholesales frozen potato products. The company is based in Park Rapids, MN.

BofA Securities, Inc. is a registered broker-dealer subsidiary of NB Holdings Corp., ultimately held by Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC). Headquartered in New York, the firm was founded in 2015 and offers trade execution, trading or brokerage services to institutional clients.

22V Research Group LLC is a research company founded in 2021 that focuses on rapidly changing markets, team collaboration, and passionate client service. The private company is based in New York, NY. The company provides the latest reports on various topics.

Hebei Titans Medical Supply Technology Group Co. Ltd. engages in the manufacture of personal hand protection products. Its products are disposable nitrile gloves and disposable vinyl gloves, which are widely used in medical care, clinical examination, chemical industry, electronics, food processing and other industries. The company was founded by Wen Xin Lu and Wei Dong Liu on February 23, 2011 and is headquartered in Xingtai, China.

Atento Capital LLC (Atento Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2020 by Michael Basch and William Gray. The firm is headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

GEC Advisors LLC (GEC Advisors) is a private equity firm founded in 2008 by Jonathan Fairbanks. The firm is headquartered in Houston, Texas.