David K. Schaible

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.

Highline Media LLC was formed in October 2003 to acquire The National Underwriter Company, the leading publisher and reference provider to the insurance and financial industries. Magazine brands include the National Underwriter Property, Casualty and Life, Health weeklies, Claims, Tech Decisions, Insurance Advocate and Florida Underwriter, the reference tools Tax Facts and Fire, Casualty & Surety Bulletins, along with 150 other books and electronic products, and three conference events. In May 2004, the company added insurance and banking data assets, including regulatory, M&A and publicly traded data, from The Thomson Corporation. In the fall of 2005, Highline acquired Wealth Manager Magazine from Bloomberg and Research and Futures magazines from Adams Business Media. The company has 250 employees and revenues of $50 million. The company is backed by Spire Capital, a private equity firm whose current fund is making investments totaling $260 million, and the banks Harris Nesbitt, Brown Brothers Harriman and Wells Fargo.

Just Marketing, Inc. operates as a motorsports marketing firm. It provides strategic marketing solutions, program management, and advertising services to the motorsports and car entertainment industry. The company was founded by Zakary C. Brown in 1995 and is headquartered in Zionsville, IN.

Professional Bull Riders LLC operates and organizes bull riding events. It conducts bull riding events and tours in the U.S., Australia, Brazil, Canada, and Mexico. The company was founded by Ted Nuce,Jim Sharp, Hedeman Tuff, Adam Carrillo, David Bailey, Aaron Semas, Gilbert Carrillo, Daryl Mills, Clint Branger, Bobby Delvecchio, Mark Cain, Cody Lambert, Jerome Davis, Mike Erikson, David Fournier, Brent Thurman, Ty M. Murray, Cody Custer, Scott R. Mendes and Randy Bernard in 1992 and is headquartered in Pueblo, CO.

Spire Capital Partners LLC (Spire Capital Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 2000 by Andy J. Armstrong, Bruce M. Hernandez and Richard H. Patterson. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Ariston Global LLC acquires, develops, make investments and operates communications services companies. The firm provides software products and services to a global, diversified set of communication service providers, DOD/Federal Agencies, large municipalities and select enterprise customers. The company was founded by Kevin Dickens and Steve M. Dubnik in 2006 and is headquartered in Pittsford, NY.

NetFortris, Inc. provides VoIP services to small and medium size businesses. It offers voice services, such as hosted VoIP and session initiation protocol trunking, as well as FlexSmart, a way to streamline communications needs by combining voice and data services onto one single connection via a private network. It also provides broadband solutions which include managed Ethernet, multiprotocol label switching, and T1 Internet access. The company was founded by Brandon Chaney, Anthony Zabit and John Cruz in 1994 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA and Plano, TX.

Advocate Networks LLC provides information technology and network consulting services. It offers strategy, optimization, managed, and transformation services. The company was founded by Timothy Wise and Scott Fogle in 2001 and is headquartered in Norcross, GA.

Dynamic Quest, Inc. engages in the provision of information technology (IT)services. It offers hosted cloud services, disaster recovery, managed IT, service plans, application support, virtual Chief Information Officer, and security services. The company was founded by Javier Gomez, Jen Wong, and Dylan Ritter on January 1, 2000 and is headquartered in Greensboro, NC.