Ronald A. Casentini

Founded in 1986, Merriman Capital, Inc. is an SEC-registered broker/dealer and investment banking firm headquartered in San Francisco. The firm is a subsidiary of Merriman Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: MERR), a financial services firm that focuses on fast-growing companies and their institutional investors. Merriman provides advisory and investment banking, equity research, institutional services, corporate services and venture services primarily to corporate clients. Merriman Capital provides research, brokerage and trading services primarily to institutional clients. The firm offers a full range of specialized and integrated services including: equity research, specialized trade execution, equity capital markets, corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, sales and trading, market making, corporate and venture services, restructurings and strategic advisory services. Merriman Capital employs bottom-up, fundamental analysis of small-cap companies in select industries including clean technology, healthcare, technology and consumer/Internet/media. The firm also has expertise in emerging markets, with emphasis on emerging markets in China. Merriman Capital is known to engage in shareholder activist investment strategies. Merriman Capital is a member of the NASD, the SIPC and FINRA. The firm serves as an introducing broker/dealer for Pershing LLC. They do not hold or maintain funds or securities or provide clearing services for other broker/dealers.

Material Sciences Corp. provides metal processing, building products and supply chain management services. Its products include deco steel, MagnaDamp, MSC smart steel, quiet steel, replikote, and sound trap. The firm offers coil coatings, electrogalvanizing, laminates and strippable film, supply chain management, and value added processing services. The company was founded in 1951 and is headquartered in Canton, MI.

Arisdyne Systems, Inc. provides retrofit equipment for fuel ethanol and biodiesel producers. It specializes in designing small footprint devices that utilize its patented controlled flow hydrodynamic cavitations and applies to increase yield for ethanol production, reduce chemical consumption for vegetable oil degumming and neutralization and reduce catalyst consumption for biodiesel production. The company was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Middleburg, OH.

Wellman Products Group, Inc. manufactures and distributes friction materials and powder metals. The company is headquartered in Medina, OH.

TerraNova Capital Partners, Inc. focuses on mergers and acquisition advisory and merchant banking. Its services include investment and merchant banking, M&A, and representative transactions. The company was founded by John Steinmetz in 1999 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Symetrics Industries LLC manufactures electronic systems. It specializes in the design, manufacture and test of electronic systems for the Department of Defense, Department of State, and prime contractors. The firm’s product line include: AN and ALE-47 countermeasures dispenser system; AN and ALM-295 countermeasures dispenser tester; improved data modems; PRISM; AN and USQ-131B memory loader-verifier system, digital-video recorders, and the LVRS. The company was founded in 1962 and is headquartered in Melbourne, FL.

Case Western Reserve University provides educational services. It offers a variety of undergraduate degree courses and graduate and professional options such as arts and sciences, dentistry, engineering, law, management, medicine, nursing, social work, and more. The firm also offers dual-degree programs. The company was founded in 1826 and is headquartered in Cleveland, OH.

Saint-Gobain Ltd. manufactures and distributes construction material. It offers construction and renovation; infrastructure and civil engineering; and industrial services. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Coventry, the United Kingdom.

FEI EFA, Inc. designs and manufactures electronic semiconductors. The firm develops and sells circuit analysis and edit tool for wafer and package semiconductor products. It provides Meridian WaferScan for backside wafer-level analysis. The company was founded by Israel Niv in 2008 and is headquartered in Fremont, CA.