Paul Kromhout

UBS Financial Services, Inc. is a registered investment advisor and wealth management firm headquartered in Weehawken, New Jersey. The firm is a wholly-owned subsidiary of UBS Americas Inc., ultimately held by UBS Group AG (SWX: UBSG; NYSE: UBS) in Switzerland. Founded in 1969, UBS Financial Services provides investment advisory services to individuals, banks, thrift institutions, mutual funds and other investment companies, pension and employee benefit plans, trusts, estates, charities, corporations and other business and government entities.

Founded in 1988, Sterne Agee Asset Management, Inc. (SAAM) is a registered investment advisor located in Birmingham, Alabama. The firm is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sterne Agee Group, Inc., a privately held financial holding company. Their ultimate parent is Stifel Financial Corp. (NYSE: SF). Affiliates of SAAM include, but are not limited to, Sterne, Agee & Leach, Inc. and Sterne Agee Financial Services, Inc. (each a registered broker-dealer), Sterne Agee Investment Advisor Services, Inc. (an SEC-registered investment advisor), The Trust Company of Sterne Agee, Inc. (an Alabama-chartered non-depository trust company), and FBC Mortgage LLC, a retail mortgage banker. SAAM provides investment advisory services to individuals, corporations, institutions, pension or profit sharing plans, employee benefit plans, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, other business and government entities, educational institutions, and banks or thrift institutions. In addition, the firm may serve as general partner and/or provide investment advice to certain private investment funds.

Based in St. Louis, Missouri, A.G. Edwards Capital, Inc. serves as general partner to private equity partnerships. The firm is a subsidiary of A.G. Edwards, Inc. (NYSE: AGE)

Kidder, Peabody & Co., Inc. provides security brokerage services. The private company is based in Buffalo, NY and has subsidiaries in Switzerland. The company was founded by Thomas W. Ostrander.