Brian Wong

Broadpoint.Gleacher Securities, formerly Broadpoint Capital, Inc. is an independent, institutional investment banking, sales and trading boutique headquartered in New York City. They were also previously known as First Albany Capital, Inc. The firm is a subsidiary of Broadpoint Securities Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: BPSG), formerly known as First Albany Cos., Inc. They have additional offices in Boston, Chicago, Denver, San Francisco, Bonita Springs, Florida, Glen Allen, Virginia, Roseland, New Jersey and St. Louis, Missouri. Broadpoint.Gleacher follows a range of fixed-income securities and provides proprietary views and analysis on credit fundamentals and trading dynamics. They focus on investment grade, high yield and convertible securities in the following sectors: consumer, building materials, financials, gaming / leisure, healthcare, homebuilding, industrials, mining, packaging, paper/forest products, power/energy, technology/media/telecommunications and transportation.

Next Generation Equity Research LLC is an independent equity research firm located in Chicago. The firm is a subsidiary of Hudson Securities, Inc. and their ultimate parent is Hudson Holding Corp. Next Generation Equity Research provides research on high quality small- to mid-cap growth companies. They seek to identify companies that have high and sustainable earnings growth and offer the potential to become market leaders within their sectors. The firm's research tends to focus on the industrial and transportation sectors.