Clay C. Border

Bear, Stearns & Co., Inc. is a global investment banking, securities trading and brokerage firm located in New York City with additional offices in Dallas, Boston and San Francisco. The firm is a subsidiary Bear Sterns Cos., Inc. (NYSE: BSC). Their equity research team consists of senior analysts located throughout the world. In addition to domestic coverage, they have research teams focusing on Latin America, Asia and Europe. The analysts use a bottom-up approach to stock selection. The Bear Stearns fixed-income research department provides coverage of every sector of the fixed-income universe. The financial analytics and structured transactions group (F.A.S.T) provides investment research, fixed-income portfolio management and analytical systems, trading technology and general financial expertise. The group also provides a broad range of services to financial institutions including asset-liability management, balance sheet restructuring, receivables-based financing analysis, security and portfolio analysis, peer analysis, and historical and real-time market-based information.

A subsidiary of Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc., Lehman Brothers, Inc. is a broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. They provide global equity and fixed research. The equity research department covers more than 100 sectors. They use a fundamental, quantitative, strategic and tactical research approach. In addition to these Lehman has also developed special products, such as 10 uncommon values and 10 uncommon eurovalues.

Reliance Electric Co. supplies industrial automation solutions. Its products include mechanical drives, couplings, bushings, clutches, and motor brakes. The company was founded by John Lincoln and Peter Hitchcock in 1904 and is located in Greenville, SC.

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.

Founded in 2000 by Thomas Pritchard, Pritchard Capital Partners LLC is a broker/dealer located in Covington, Louisiana with additional offices in Atlanta, Houston, New York City and Falls Church, Virginia. They are a subsidiary of Glacier Partners Corp. The firm provides independent research to institutional investors. They focus on all segments of the energy industry including oil, natural gas and power. Pritchard Capital Partners is a member of the NASD and the SIPC.

Oxane Materials, Inc. manufactures and markets ceramic proppants. It offers products in the areas of sour gas abatement technologies, PEM fuel cell membranes, and composite agents. The firm’s advanced ceramic proppants, travel more deeply and more uniformly into oil and gas formations than conventional proppants while also affording a more conductive channel for oil and gas to flow to the wellbore. The company was founded by Mark Wiesner, Christopher E. Coker, Gregory P. William and Andrew Barron in 2002 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co. Securities LLC (TPH) is a broker/dealer headquartered in Houston, Texas. The firm was founded in 2007 by Robert Tudor III. They are a subsidiary of Perella Weinberg Partners Group LP, which is ultimately owned by Perella Weinberg Partners (NASDAQ: PWP). TPH provides a full array of trading and execution services for their institutional and corporate clients in the energy sector. They focus on the upstream, midstream and oilfield service sectors.

Part of Donovan Ventures Asset Management LP, Donovan Ventures LLC is a company that provides lower middle market growth capital through their dedicated private equity fund and advises larger clients seeking up to $500 million in institutional capital. Donovan Ventures is based in Houston, TX and has a long-term track record of success in the oil and gas industry. The company specializes in asset management, investment banking, structured credit, floating income, and M & A/capital markets. The company recently closed the largest ever oil & gas securitization and selected Alternative Investment Exchange (AIX) to power their oil & gas private equity investment offerings. The company was founded in 2007 to create strategic value for entrepreneurs across the energy value chain.