Imaru Beatriz Casanova

Van Eck Associates Corp. (VanEck) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor and mutual fund management firm founded in 1955 by John van Eck to manage an international equity fund. In 1968, the firm began offering investments in gold shares and other hard assets. Headquartered in New York City, VanEck provides investment advisory services to registered investment companies and other pooled investment vehicles.

Founded in 2010, MLV & Co. LLC is a broker/dealer located in New York City. The firm is a direct subsidiary of FBR Capital Markets Holdings, Inc. and their ultimate parent is FBR & Co. (NASDAQ: FBRC), which acquired the firm in 2015. Their research focuses on small to mid-sized companies with disruptive technologies that have the potential to drive significant market changes. MLV & Co.'s coverage universe includes the life sciences, oil & gas and metals & mining sectors.

Barnard Jacobs Mellet (USA) LLC is a broker/dealer located in Stamford, Connecticut. The firm is a subsidiary of Religare Enterprises Ltd. They specialize in sales and trading of all listed South African securities. Barnard Jacobs Mellet was founded in 1991 and has established a presence in the US institutional market as a gateway to both bonds and equities. Together with their sister companies in the UK and South Africa, a professional execution service is available in all US, European and South African markets. The firm provides research sales and trading service to US institutional investors in South African equities and fixed-income securities. They also cater to a wide array of clients in other emerging markets as well as in developed markets.

BMO Capital Markets Corp. (Broker) is the broker/dealer division of BMO Capital Markets Corp., a full-service North American financial services provider headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1998 and is a subsidiary of BMO Financial Corp., which is owned by Bank of Montreal (NYSE, TSX: BMO) in Canada. BMO Capital Markets offers corporate, institutional and government clients access to a variety of products and services including equity and debt underwriting, corporate lending and project financing, merger and acquisitions advisory services, merchant banking, securitization, treasury and market risk management, debt and equity research and institutional sales and trading.