Brodie Cobb

SWS Group, Inc. is a diversified financial services holding company. The company delivers investment banking, commercial banking and related financial services to individual, corporate and institutional investors, broker/dealers, governmental entities and financial intermediaries. It operates through four segments: Clearing, Retail Brokerage, Institutional Brokerage and Banking. The Clearing segment provides clearing and execution services for general securities broker/dealers, for bank affiliated firms and firms specializing in high volume trading. The Retail Brokerage segment includes retail securities products and services, insurance products and managed accounts and encompasses the activities of its employee registered representatives and independent representatives. The Institutional Brokerage segment serves institutional customers in securities lending, investment banking and public finance, fixed income sales and trading, proprietary trading and agency execution services. The Banking segment offers traditional banking products and services and focuses on small business lending and short-term funding for mortgage bankers. SWS Group was founded by Donald A. Buchholz in 1972 and is headquartered in Dallas, TX.

Founded in 1997, Presidio Capital Advisors LLC is an independent broker/dealer located in San Francisco. They are a subsidiary of Presidio Financial Partners LLC. The firm provides a full array of trading and execution services for their clients. They do not provide any internal research.

Presidio Investors LLC (Presidio Investors) is private equity subsidiary of Presidio Group LLC founded in 2007 by Karl Schade. The firm is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Credit Suisse First Boston LLC provides global investment banking services in the United States. It provides private banking and financial advisory services and banking products. Its businesses include securities underwriting, sales & trading, investment banking, private equity, alternative assets, financial advisory services, investment research and asset management. It is headquartered in New York, NY.

Hilltop Securities, Inc. (dba HilltopSecurities) is a broker/dealer firm headquartered in Dallas, Texas. The firm was founded in 1946 as Southwest Securities, Inc. and they a subsidiary of Hilltop Securities Holdings LLC. Hilltop Securities provides a full array of trading and execution services for their clients.

Cobb Partners Ltd. provides financial services.

The Presidio Group LLC provides investment services. It offers wealth advisory and investment banking services. The company was founded by Jeffrey L. Zlot and Brodie Cobb in 1997 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.