Carole Murko

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.

The Christian Science Monitor is an independent international news organization.It provides a credible and constructive counter-narrative to the hopelessness, anger, and fear.The company is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Founded by Kathryn I. Thompson in 2009, Thompson Research Group LLC (TRG) is an equity research firm located in Nashville, Tennessee. The firm offers original, fundamental research and analysis in the industrial and construction materials sectors. Specific industries in their coverage universe include, but aren't limited to building materials, building products, construction equipment, engineering & construction, household goods & services, industrial distribution, diversified industrials and recreation vehicles. TRG provides services to institutional investor and private equity clients. The firm does not provide equity trading or investment banking services.

Eaton Vance Management (EVM) is a SEC-registered mutual fund manager headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm was founded in 1979 when Eaton & Howard merged with Vance, Sanders & Co. Prior to March 2021, they were a wholly-owned subsidiary of Eaton Vance Corp. Their direct owner is Morgan Stanley Domestic Holdings, Inc., ultimately held by Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS). EVM offers advisory services in a variety of equity, income, mixed-asset and alternative strategies to institutional clients, mutual funds, other pooled investment vehicles, and retail separately managed accounts.

Boston Globe Media Partners LLC prints and publishes newspapers. The company is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Dow Jones & Co., Inc publishes financial information and news. It offers news through newspapers, newswires, websites, apps, newsletters, magazines, proprietary databases, conferences and more. The firm?s premier brands include The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones Newswires, Factiva, Barron's, MarketWatch and SmartMoney. The company was founded by Edward Davis Jones, Charles Henry Dow and Charles Milford Bergstresser in 1882 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

NetMovies, Inc. is an American company that offers online streaming of movies and TV series. Users can access the service from various devices such as Android, iPad, Smart TVs from Philips and Samsung, computers (PC and MAC), and XBOX360 and XBOX ONE.

TandemSeven, Inc. provides design and development services and tools which specialize in complex multi-channel experiences and digital solutions. It architects and builds business applications and portals. The company was founded by David Clark and Steve Wyman and is headquartered in Plymouth, MA.

NewStore, Inc. provides software services. The firm provides mobile retail platform that boosts conversion, promotes engagement, unifies online and offline, and modernizes fulfillment. Its solutions include conversion, omni channel, fulfillment, and loyalty. The company was founded by Stephan Schambach in 2015 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

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.

The Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst Association provides educational and professionalism services in the field of alternative investments. The private company is based in Amherst, MA and has subsidiaries in Switzerland and Canada. The company was founded by Alexander M. Ineichen, Jayson Reagan Bronchetti, Peter Douglas, Florence Lombard. William J Kelly has been the CEO of the company since 2014.