Robert Jay Kaufman

Founded in 1995, Kaufman Bros. LP is a broker/dealer headquartered in New York City with an additional office in San Francisco. The firm is a member of the NASD, the SIPC and FINRA. Kaufman Bros. provides investment banking, equity research and institutional sales and trading. The firm provides fundamental research on the following sectors: (1) cable, satellite and interactive media (2) communications equipment (3) digital media software (4) green technology (5) information technology hardware and storage (6) information technology services and software (7) semiconductors and (8) telecommunications & data services.

National Alliance Capital Markets is a broker/dealer located in New York City. They are the institutional broker/dealer division National Allegiance Securities Corp. The firm's team of sales and trading professionals serve the needs of hedge funds, money managers, banks and other lending institutions, trust departments, insurance companies and other institutional investors. They deal in most types of fixed-income securities ranging from U.S. Government and agency debt obligations to corporate securities to taxable and tax-free municipals and equities. National Allegiance also helps arrange private placements of certain fixed-income securities and works with institutions and investors to coordinate these transactions. National Allegiance Capital Markets is primarily a mortgage and asset backed specialty firm. The firm specializes in analyzing, structuring, marketing, and trading the full range of these related securities: (1) mortgage collateral (2) fixed rate collateralized mortgage obligations (CMO) (3) other mortgage derivatives such as inverse floating rate products, interest-only and principal-only strips, investment whole loan securities and RMBS, CMBS and ABS. National Alliance Securities Corp. maintains a clearing arrangement with First Southwest Securities.

Silicon Valley Bank provides commercial banking services. It offers banking services to the hardware and infrastructure, software and internet, life science and healthcare, energy and resource innovation, private equity and venture capital, and premium wine industries. The company was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.