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Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc. (DBSI) is a SEC-registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1971 and is a wholly-owned investment banking and brokerage arm of DB U.S. Financial Markets Holding Corp., ultimately held by Deutsche Bank AG (NYSE: DB, FRA: DBK) in Germany. DBSI provides securities brokerage and investment advisory services to domestic and international private clients and institutions. They are also a primary dealer in US government securities as designated by the Federal Reserve.

Part of LPL Financial Holdings, Inc., IFMG Securities, Inc. provides securities brokerage services. The company is based in Purchase, NY.

Westmount Asset Management LLC (Westmount) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Los Angeles, California. The firm was founded by Robert A. Berliner and James E. Berliner in 1990. Westmount provides various investment advisory services to pension and profit-sharing plans, non-profits, estates and trusts, corporations, partnerships and individuals.

Founded in 2001, Scottsdale Capital Advisors Corp. is an independent SEC-registered investment advisor and broker/dealer headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona. The firm is a subsidiary of Scottsdale Capital Advisors Holdings LLC. They provide a full array of trading and execution services for their clients. They do not provide any internal research. Scottsdale Capital Advisors Corp. is a member of FINRA. Scottsdale Capital Advisors Corp. primarily employs technical analysis methods in developing investment strategies for their clients. Research and analysis is derived from numerous sources, including financial media companies, third-party research materials, Internet sources and the review of company activities, including annual reports, prospectuses, press releases and research prepared by others.

Scholastic, Inc. engages in publishing books. The company was incorporated on October 13, 1955 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Pindrop Security, Inc. provides enterprise solutions that help prevent phone-based fraud. Its products include phone reputation service, fraud detection system, call forward protection, and phone fraud solutions for high risk industries. The firm?s solution combines authentication and anti-fraud detection technology to verify legitimate callers while detecting malicious callers. Its Phoneprinting technology is the first of its kind to analyze and fingerprint individual phone calls, providing the caller?s true location and calling device. It operates through its offices located in Atlanta and Toronto. The company was founded by Vijay A. Balasubramaniyan, Mustaque Ahamad, Patrick Traynor and Paul Q. Judge in 2011 and is headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

Cowen Prime Services LLC (CPS) is a broker-dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm is directly owned by Cowen PB Holdings LLC, which, in turn, is primarily owned by Cowen Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: COWN). CPS is registered as a broker-dealer with the SEC and FINRA, and as a an introducing broker with the Commodities Futures Trading Commission and the National Futures Association. CPS was formed in 2015 following Cowen Group’s acquisition of Concept Capital Markets LLC. Concept Capital was established in 2010 following the spin-off of the Concept Capital division of Sanders Morris Harris Inc., whose origins date back to 1995. CPS' offering includes world-class custody and clearing options, multi asset class capabilities, leading execution and order management systems, a seasoned execution desk, a range of financing options, a highly professional operations and customer support team, comprehensive portfolio reporting capabilities, capital introduction, and live, intraday and post-trade risk and performance analytics.

New York State Bar Association is a non-profit organization, which provides legal services and offers a membership program for lawyers. It also publishes an array of books, bar journals, law digest, and State Bar news. The company was founded in 1876 and is headquartered in Alban, NY.

The Phi Beta Kappa Society operates as an organization for liberal arts and science education. The non-profit company is based in Washington.

Founded in 1986, Merriman Capital, Inc. is an SEC-registered broker/dealer and investment banking firm headquartered in San Francisco. The firm is a subsidiary of Merriman Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: MERR), a financial services firm that focuses on fast-growing companies and their institutional investors. Merriman provides advisory and investment banking, equity research, institutional services, corporate services and venture services primarily to corporate clients. Merriman Capital provides research, brokerage and trading services primarily to institutional clients. The firm offers a full range of specialized and integrated services including: equity research, specialized trade execution, equity capital markets, corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, sales and trading, market making, corporate and venture services, restructurings and strategic advisory services. Merriman Capital employs bottom-up, fundamental analysis of small-cap companies in select industries including clean technology, healthcare, technology and consumer/Internet/media. The firm also has expertise in emerging markets, with emphasis on emerging markets in China. Merriman Capital is known to engage in shareholder activist investment strategies. Merriman Capital is a member of the NASD, the SIPC and FINRA. The firm serves as an introducing broker/dealer for Pershing LLC. They do not hold or maintain funds or securities or provide clearing services for other broker/dealers.

Codoxo, Inc. provides automated intelligence software platform for detecting healthcare fraud. It offers sophisticated adaptive technology, comprehensive claims investigation platform and integrated case management system services. The company was founded by Musheer Ahmed and Mustaque Ahamed and is headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

Hartford Hospital provides health care services. Its services include behavioral and health care, bone and joint, cancer care, cardiology and heart care, centers for surgical weight loss, diabetes and endocrinology, emergency services, neurosciences, physical rehabilitation, senior services, and women’s health. The company was founded in 1854 and is headquartered in Hartford, CT.

Griffin Financial Group LLC is an investment bank that offers merger and acquisition advisory, financing, and strategic consulting services to both healthy and financially challenged businesses. The private company is based in King of Prussia, PA. The CEOs of the company are Matthew T. O'Leary, Scott Abercrombie.

Top Tier Capital Partners LLC (TTCP) is a venture capital firm founded in 1999 by Philip Paul and David York. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California with additional office in London.

Founded in 1991 by Philip Paul, Paul Capital Partners LP is a private equity firm located in San Francisco with additional offices in New York City, Hong Kong, London, Paris and São Paulo.