Anup Goswami

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.

Clinton Group, Inc. is a registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded by George E. Hall in 1991 and is a subsidiary of Madison Avenue Capital Holdings, Inc., which is owned by CGI Holdings, Inc. Clinton Group serves as investment manager primarily for an offshore private investment fund, as well as pools of collateralized debt obligations (CDOs), collateralized bond obligations (CBOs) and other structured products for which the the firm as collateral manager.

Vining Sparks IBG LLC is a registered broker/dealer headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee. The firm was founded in 1981 and is a subsidiary of Vining-Sparks Securities, Inc., which is owned by Stifel Financial Corp. (NYSE: SF). Vining Sparks IBG executes fixed income securities transactions for a variety of institutional investors.

Founded in 2008, Odeon Capital Group LLC is an independent full-service broker/dealer located in New York City. The firm provides advice and execution on fundamental value and catalyst-driven situations through sales and trading, research, investment banking and asset management services. Odeon Capital Group provides services related to fixed-income securities including corporate securities, ABS, RMBS, Auction Rate securities and other structured products. The firm serves institutional clients. Odeon Capital Group is a member of FINRA, the SIPC and the MSRB. Odeon Capital Group has expertise in both traditional and esoteric assets. The firm has placed both large and small volume transactions in every asset class. They seek to maximize value for their clients through in-depth analyses of sectors, asset classes and individual securities that are hard to value or trade. The firm's Structured Products and Corporate Groups focus on institutional sales, trading and analytics of secondary structured products, esoteric assets and special situations.

Founded in 1999 by the late Thomas Watson, Janney Montgomery Scott LLC (JMS) is a full-service financial services firm and registered broker/dealer headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The firm is a subsidiary of Independence Square Properties LLC, itself a subsidiary of Penn Mutual Insurance Co. Their ultimate parent is Harleysville Mutual Insurance Co. JMS is a member of the NYSE, the SIPC and FINRA. The firm provides comprehensive financial advice and services to individual, corporate and institutional investors. Their primary coverage verticals include the consumer, technology, financials and infrastructure sectors.

David R. Rahn & Associates, Inc., do-business-as Avalon Capital Management (Avalon), is a wealth management firm and registered investment advisor headquartered in Redwood City, California. The firm was founded in 1992 by David Rahn, Clara Basile and William Oberman. Avalon offers investment management services to their clients composed of individual clients and families, most of whom are high net-worth individuals.

Royal Bank of Canada (New York Branch) operates as national commercial bank. The company is headquartered in New York, NY.

Founded in 2009, Bonwick Capital Partners LLC is a full-service, SEC-registered broker/dealer located in New York City. The firm is dedicated to providing top tier service to clients across sales and trading, investment banking / corporate advisory, private equity and merchant banking. Bonwick Capital has extensive fixed-income expertise, specifically in mortgage-backed securities. The firm can tap into the vast network of their principals to help distribute and source various products in this space. For smaller deposit institutions, Bonwick Capital offers access to larger buy side and sell side institutions. Bonwick Capital distributes fixed-income products to small and medium sized firms that are below the typical asset size for larger institutions. The firm provides analytics, portfolio optimization, market color, as well as top to bottom solutions by combining their proficiencies in capital markets with their investment banking unit. Bonwick Capital's sales and trading group competes on the total value they bring to their clients, not simply on price.

VB Capital Management AG is a Swiss private investment firm that specializes in fixed income and equities portfolio management. The private company is based in Zurich, Switzerland and was founded in 2018. The Swiss company also provides operational support, managerial advisory, and corporate finance solutions to the companies they invest in. The company acts as an investment manager to a select number of elite clients and are regulated by SOFIT, a self-regulatory organization recognized and supervised by FINMA. Alejandro Gonzalez Ribadeneira has been the CEO of the company since 2019.