Stephen Loukas

Founded in 2002, Pirate Capital LLC is a hedge fund manager located in Norwalk, Connecticut. The firm provides their services to pooled investment vehicles.

Founded in 1939, Scotia Capital, Inc. is a full-service financial services firm headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. The firm is a subsidiary of the Bank of Nova Scotia (NYSE: BNS) Their global operations are divided into two primary business units: (1) global corporate and investment banking and (2) global capital markets.

Zolfo Cooper LLC provides financial advisory and interim management services. Its services include turnaround & restructuring advisory, interim management, performance improvement, creditor advisory, forensic & litigation consulting and transaction advisory services. The company is headquartered in New York, NY.

Xinergy Ltd. operates as a mineral exploration company, which produces metallurgical and thermal coal with mineral reserves, mining operations and coal properties in the Central Appalachian regions of West Virginia and Virginia. It also sells high quality thermal and metallurgical coal to electric utilities, steelmakers, energy trading firms and marketers of coal and industrial companies. The company was founded on February 11, 2005 and is headquartered in Knoxville, TN.

FrontFour Capital Group LLC (FrontFour Capital) is an independent hedge fund manager headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut. The firm was founded in 2006 by Zachary George, David Lorber and Stephen Loukas. FrontFour Capital provides to investment advisory services to private investment funds and separately managed accounts.

Credit Suisse Securities (Canada) Inc. is a broker/dealer headquartered in Toronto, Ontario with offices worldwide. The firm is a subsidiary of Credit Suisse Group (NYSE: CS). Their equity research equity group engages in a broad range of activities for investors including sales, trading, financing, prime brokerage and market-making in U.S. and international equity and equity related securities, options, futures, risk management and hedging products. Their activities cover both exchange-traded and over-the-counter traded securities, including American depositary receipts, restricted stocks, equity repurchases, block trade executions, program trading executions, equity derivatives and convertible securities. The fixed-income franchise operates as a single, unified platform that handles all fixed-income cash and derivative products. Products and services range from securitization and liability management transactions to sales and trading and superior research.