Darren E. Robinson

Founded by Alfred Newton Wolverton in 1910, Wolverton Securities Ltd. is a full-service, independent, Canadian-owned investment bank and brokerage firm headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia. The firm provides a wide range of financial services to both corporate and retail clients. They are connected with every principal stock exchange in North America as a member or through trading agreements. Wolverton Securities is the oldest member of the Toronto Stock Exchange Group. To serve the U.S. market, the firm owns and manages Wolverton Securities (USA) Ltd., a fully-licensed U.S. brokerage subsidiary. Wolverton Securities' investment products and services include: (1) Canadian, U.S. and foreign equities and options (2) Government and corporate bonds (3) money market instruments (4) RRSP eligible investments (5) public offerings (6) tax deferred investments (7) mutual funds and (8) wealth management services.

Founded in 2000, MGI Securities, Inc., formerly McFarlane Gordon, Inc., is a broker/dealer headquartered in Toronto with an additional office in Calgary. The firm is a subsidiary of Jovian Capital Corp. (TSX: JVN). They provide a range of specialized services for institutional investors and professional private wealth management solutions for individual investors. MGI Securities does not provide any internal research. MGI Securities is a member of the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC) and the Canadian Investor Protection Fund (CIPF). The firm is a participating organization in the Toronto Stock Exchange, the TSX Venture Exchange and the Canadian Trading and Quotation System Inc. (CNQ) through their PURE Trading Facility, Alpha Trading Systems, Omega ATS and Chi-X Canada.

CIBC Securities, Inc. is a fund distributor located in Toronto, Ontario. The firm is a subsidiary of the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (NYSE: CM). The firm is the principal distributor of the CIBC Mutual Funds and the CIBC Family of Managed Portfolios. The CIBC Family of Managed Portfolios consists of CIBC Managed Portfolios and CIBC U.S. Dollar Managed Portfolios, which are mutual funds that invest primarily in CIBC Mutual Funds.

Founded in 1996, Investrend, Inc. is a research firm headquartered in Forest Hills, New York. The firm specializes in an integrated, interdependent approach, pulling together research, broadcast, forums and information platforms as needed to create a cohesive platform to enhance events, conferences, research, publications and information distributions worldwide with services skewed toward shareholder empowerment.