Ronald M. Stuart

Quadra Realty Trust, Inc. (Quadra Realty Trust) provides real estate financing services. The company invests in commercial mortgage investments and related products, including construction loans, mezzanine loans, B notes, bridge loans, fixed and floating rate whole loans, loan participations, preferred equity investments and equity in commercial real estate. The trust specializes in debt financing for commercial real estate throughout the United States. Quadra Realty Trust is headquartered in New York.

Daiwa Capital Markets America, Inc. (DCMA), formerly Daiwa Securities America, Inc., is an SEC-registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City and was founded in 1964. The firm is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Daiwa Capital Markets America Holdings, Inc., itself a wholly-owned subsidiary of Daiwa Securities Capital Markets Co. Ltd., which is a subsidiary of Daiwa Securities Group, Inc. (TK: 8601), a Tokyo-based investment bank and broker/dealer. DCMA provides high quality investment data, analysis and research products to major U.S. institutional investors.

Oppenheimer & Co., Inc. provides security brokerage services. It also offers investment banking and advice to high net worth investors, individuals, businesses and institutions. The company is headquartered in New York, NY.