Ernie J. Panos

Bariston Partners LLC (Bariston Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 1986 by David A. Barry. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

A.G. Edwards & Sons, Inc. is a full-service brokerage firm. A.G. Edwards equity research team covers a wide range of industries including: consumer discretionary, consumer staples, energy, financials, health care, industrials, information technology, material, telecommunication services and utilities. They also provide fixed-income research in the utility, auto, banking and finance, and telecom industries. A.G. Edwards was founded in 1887 by General Albert Gallatin Edwards and his son Benjamin Franklin Edwards. They are a broker/dealer subsidiary of A.G. Edwards, Inc. They are a member of the SIPC.

HighPoint Capital Management LLC (HighPoint Capital) is a private equity subsidiary of Crescent Capital Group Holdings LP founded in 2004 by John S. Bowman and Scott E. Carpenter. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Hercules Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 2003 by Scott Harvey, Manuel Henriquez, and Roy Liu. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Hercules Capital, Inc., is a traded business development company invests in middle market companies located in the United States. The fund targets companies operating in the fields of life sciences, technology, SaaS Finance and sustainable renewable. It provides equity, debt, loan & mezzanine financing for buyouts, growth capital, and acquisitions capital requirements.

First Eagle Private Credit LLC provides financial and investment services. It operates through the Commercial Lending and Asset Management segments. The company was founded by Timothy J. Conway in 2004 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Citizens Energy Corp. provides oil heating services. It offers assistance programs such as joe-4-oil, natural gas, homeless shelters and solar homes. The company was founded by Joseph P. Kennedy II in 1979 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.