Todd A. Schwartzman

Sidoti & Co. LLC (S&C) is a registered broker and equity research firm headquartered in New York City. The firm is a subsidiary of Sidoti Holding Co. LLC and was founded in 1999. S&C provides research exclusively to institutional investors. The firm covers the following sectors: housing, retail, basic industries, technology, business services, capital goods, automotive, computer software, regional banking, telecommunications, entertainment, healthcare and consumer products. Their analysts conduct their own due diligence which includes visiting companies and meeting with operating and financial management. In addition, the firm's analysts focus on fundamentals, particularly cash flow from operations and EPS.

Headquartered in New York City, Cathay Financial Corp. is an employee-owned independent research firm and institutional broker-dealer. Their product encompassed fundamental equity, (with an insistence on catalysts), special situations including spin-offs, orphan equities and mergers. They do not have a maintenance model. Cathay was founded in 1992 by Bernard Joei.