Matthew Joseph McCormack

Founded in 1999, BGB Securities, Inc. is a broker/dealer located in Arlington, Virginia. They are a subsidiary of Aegis Financial Corp. and their ultimate parent is Vesta Insurance Group, Inc. (OTC: VTAIQ.PK). The firm clears equity transactions through National Financial, a subsidiary of Fidelity Investments Company. BGB securities in a member of FINRA and the SIPC. BGB Securities specializes in researching inefficiently priced securities that are misunderstood or insufficiently covered by the marketplace. As contrarians, they seek to identify investments that are temporarily out of favor. The firm seeks to identify mispriced assets that are capable of producing significant future cash flows and looks for near term catalysts that may cause intrinsic values to be realized. BGB Securities favors companies trading at discounted levels with tangible assets that can be readily valued within a margin of safety. They also seek to identify mispriced companies with competitive advantages that allow for sustainable profit margins. The firm focuses on special situations across industries, favoring a fundamental-driven, analytical approach. BGB securities' research focuses on the following sectors: housing finance, homebuilders, REITs, consumer and diversified. In addition to executing equity trades for their clients, BGB Securities also assists clients with trades in a select number of fixed-income products.

Founded by Louis Miscioscia, Brigantine Advisors is an independent equity research firm located in New York City. The firm seeks to provide timely analysis of market trends by identifying major technology shifts. Within the macro environment, they seek to identify profitable investment opportunities with a focus on both the financial and technical capabilities of the companies they analyze. Brigantine Advisors follows the technology, healthcare, information technology services, business services, supply chain, enterprise infrastructure, Internet/entertainment and semiconductors sectors. Within the enterprise infrastructure sector, they focus on storage and managed services, hardware/EMS and communications industries. Within the semiconductors sector, the firm focuses on the analog, solar and communications IC industries. In the area of the Internet and entertainment, most of their research is on the digital media industry and within the healthcare sector, they tend to focus on medical devices.

Aegis Financial Corp. (Aegis Financial) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in McLean, Virginia. The firm was founded in 1994 and formerly known as Berno, Gambal & Barbee, Inc. Aegis Financial offers institutional and private client investment management services through separately managed accounts.

Founded in 1989, FBR Capital Markets & Co., formerly Friedman, Billings, Ramsey & Co., is a broker/dealer headquartered in Arlington, Virginia with additional offices throughout the US. The firm is a subsidiary of FBR Capital Markets Holdings, Inc.. and their ultimate parent is FBR & Co. (NASDAQ: FBRC). In 2007, FBR Capital Markets Corp. was spun out from FBR Group as an independent investment bank, of which FBR Group retained majority ownership. FBR Capital Markets is registered with the SEC and is a member of FINRA, Nasdaq and the SIPC. FBR Capital Markets' Equity Sales & Trading Group provides institutional sales and trading services to over 1300 institutional accounts in the US, Canada, Europe, Australia and Asia. Their clients include mutual funds, hedge funds, money managers, endowments, foundations, banks, insurance companies and pension and profit sharing plans. They actively trade on behalf of clients and make markets in almost 1000 stocks traded on the NYSE, listed and OTC markets and trade more than $100 billion of securities on a per annum basis. In 2009, FBR Capital Markets began making markets in selected stocks traded on the London Stock Exchange and Euronext. In addition to agency trading in listed securities markets, they act as market-maker in Nasdaq and other OTC securities. They are one of the largest distributors of the shares of small- and mid-cap companies in public and private securities offerings and have deep trading expertise in the vertical industry groups in which the firm's investment banking and research teams specialize. These sectors include: (1) consumer (2) diversified industrials (3) energy and natural resources (4) financial institutions (5) healthcare (6) insurance (7) real estate (8) Washington policy analysis and (0) technology, media and telecommunications. The firm's analytical coverage includes a large number of small- and mid-cap companies in addition to large companies. Research is provided by FBR Capital Markets' research department, which is independent from the firm's investment banking department and has the sole authority to determine which companies receive research coverage and the recommendation contained in the coverage.