Thomas Hakel

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.

Kuwait Airways Corp. provides airline transportation services. It has a fleet of 17 aircraft, three A320-200s, three A310-300s, five A300-605Rs, four A340-300s and two Boeing B777s. The company has established its network to reach more than 46 countries around the globe. Kuwait Airways was founded in 1954and is headquartered in Safat, Kuwait

Conviva, Inc. engages in the provision of online video optimization and online video analytics. The firm helps operators and broadcasters to meet audience expectations for video experience, across a multi-screen viewing environment. The company was founded by Hui Zhang and Ion Stoica in 2006 and is headquartered in Foster City, CA.

SPYRUS, Inc. develops, manufactures and markets hardware-based encryption, authentication and digital content security products. It offers products for government, financial and health care enterprises. The firm's products include Windows to go live drives, encrypting USB storage, rosetta hardware security modules and other security offerings. The company was founded by Sue Pontius in 1992 headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Nautilus Renewables LLC (Nautilus Renewables) is a private equity subsidiary of The Courtney Group, Inc. The firm is headquartered in Newport Beach, California.

SimpleRose, Inc. provides decision-making optimization platform. The platform enables clients to leverage algorithmic innovation for parallelism, differentiated numerical accuracy, and dynamic programming for continuous analysis updates for real-time variable changes. The company was founded by Carl Scotius Ledbetter, Jr., Xiao Lin Gong, and Marti L. Martindale in 2018 and is headquartered in St. Louis, MO.

Summit Bank (Oakland, California) operates as a state commercial banks. The company was founded by Shirley W. Nelson in 1982 and is headquartered in Oakland, CA.

Capita Corp. provides financial services. It offers investment management and advisory services. The company is headquartered in Livingston, NJ.

Misapplied Sciences, Inc. provides employment services. The company was founded by Paul Dietz, David Thompson, and Albert Ng on November 25, 2014 and is headquartered in Redmond, WA.

DriveScale, Inc. provides data center infrastructure solutions. It offers composable platform, cloud central and architecture. The company was founded by Jeffrey Duane Northcutt, Satya Nishtala, and Tom Lyon in 2013 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

OpenLogic, Inc. provides open source software and solutions for enterprises. It offers solutions for open source governance and to automate the integration and deployment of open source components - reducing the risk and maximizing the cost savings associated with using open source software. The firm provides provides enterprises with a certified library of open source software that encompasses hundreds of the most popular open source packages via OpenLogic Exchange (OLEX), a free web site where companies can find, research, and download certified, enterprise-ready open source packages on demand. The company was founded by Rod Cope in 1998 and is headquartered in Boulder, CO.

Pelion Venture Partners (Pelion Venture Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1986 by Jim C. Dreyfous and Joel D. Kellman. The firm is headquartered in Salt Lake City. Utah.

Part of Open Text Corp., Micro Focus Software, Inc. is a software company. The company is based in Provo, UT. The company's description states that Novell software is now a part of OpenText and all products and information previously on novell.com is now on opentext.com.

ETA Systems, Inc. develops global positioning system (GPS) fleet tracking solutions. It sells and supports GPS trackers and web-based GPS tracking systems. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Orlando, FL.

Brighton Jones LLC is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor and wealth management firm headquartered in Seattle, Washington. It was founded by Charles Brighton and Jon Jones in 1999. The firm provides investment management services to individuals, high net-worth individuals, pooled investment vehicles, pension and profit-sharing plans, charitable organizations, business entities, and trusts.