John B. Kleinheinz

Kleinheinz Capital Partners, Inc. (Kleinheinz Capital) is an independent hedge fund manager headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas. The firm was founded by John B. Kleinheinz in 1996. Kleinheinz Capital provides investment advice to high net worth clients.

Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. provided wealth management, securities trading and sales, corporate finance and investment banking services. Merrill Lynch was a global trader and underwriter of securities and derivatives across a range of asset classes and serve as a strategic advisor to governments, institutions and individuals worldwide. The company was founded in 1913 and was headquartered in Charlotte, NC.

Bravo Equity Partners is a private equity firm founded in 2000 by Rafael G. Garza and Hugo Del Pozzo. The firm is headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas.

Nomura Securities International, Inc. (NSI) is a registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City and was founded in 1969. The firm is a division of Nomura Holding America, Inc. and their ultimate parent is Nomura Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: NMR, TYO: 8604, AMS: 8604). NSI provides securities brokerage services, as well as asset management, domestic retail, global markets, global investment banking and global merchant banking services. The firm's fixed-income business consists of bond sales and trading, origination and product supply for securitization deals and real estate-focused asset finance operations (in cooperation with Investment Banking). In the equity markets, NSI offers sales and trading of domestic and foreign stocks on a global basis, primarily for institutional investors.