Jackson E. Spears

Founded in 2003, Gar Wood Securities LLC is a full-service, institutional broker/dealer headquartered in Chicago with branch offices in New York City, Atlanta, Dallas, Mobile, Milwaukee and Vancouver, Washington. The firm has expertise in prime brokerage, trading and investment banking. Gar Wood Securities trades solely on an agency basis and provides clients with direct market access to all major global markets and ECNs covering equities, options and futures. The firm provides an array of trading and execution services for their clients. They do not provide any internal research

Founded by Marcus Robins in 1997, the Robins Group, LLC is a broker/dealer located in Portland, Oregon. The Robins Group provides professional investors with research and brokerage services on under-followed small- and micro-cap equities. The firm prefers well-managed companies that dominate their particular niches through superior service, products and technology. The Robins Group's research team employs fundamental analysis to measure value. Earnings power, cash flow, revenue growth, book value and financial strength are among the factors evaluated to determine investment potential. They target almost all industry sectors ranging from physical sciences and manufacturing, to services, technology and financial. The Robins Group clears through Wedbush Morgan Securities

Founded in 1995, Capstone Investments is a broker/dealer headquartered in San Diego, California with an additional office in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The firm provides a full range of institutional services including, investment banking, research, deal origination and capital introduction services. They provide fundamental research and investment opinions to their clients primarily on small- to mid-cap companies.

Cowen & Co. LLC is a SEC-registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2004 and is a subsidiary of Cowen Holdings, Inc., ultimately owned by The Toronto-Dominion Bank (TSE: TD) in Canada. Cowen & Co. offers industry-focused investment banking for growth-oriented companies, domain knowledge-driven research and a sales and trading platform for institutional investors. Their institutional sales and trading business serves both equity and fixed-income clients. Sales and trading execution platform is structured around the following key verticals: (1) healthcare (2) technology, telecommunications and media (TMT) (3) REITs and financials (4) aerospace and defense (5) consumer and (6) alternative energy.

Founded in 2008, ABN AMRO, Inc. is a broker/dealer located in New York City. They are a subsidiary of ABN AMRO North America, Inc. and their ultimate parent is Amsterdam-based RFS Holdings BV. ABN AMRO is an international bank with European roots. They focus on consumer and commercial clients in their local markets and focus globally on select multinational corporations and financial institutions, as well as private clients. ABN AMRO is active in four principal customer segments: Personal Banking, Private Banking, Business and Commercial and Corporate and Institutional. While they serve a broad range of clients, their strategic focus is on the mid-market segment