Charles Liang

ESS Technology, Inc. engages in the design and marketing pf analog and audio devices for mobile, consumer, automotive, and professional audiophile systems. Its products include digital to analog converters, audio amplifiers, voltage regulators, and sound bar and audio system on chip. The company was founded by Forest S. Mozer in 1984 and is headquartered in Milpitas, CA.

Cowen & Co. LLC is a SEC-registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2004 and is a subsidiary of Cowen Holdings, Inc., ultimately owned by The Toronto-Dominion Bank (TSE: TD) in Canada. Cowen & Co. offers industry-focused investment banking for growth-oriented companies, domain knowledge-driven research and a sales and trading platform for institutional investors. Their institutional sales and trading business serves both equity and fixed-income clients. Sales and trading execution platform is structured around the following key verticals: (1) healthcare (2) technology, telecommunications and media (TMT) (3) REITs and financials (4) aerospace and defense (5) consumer and (6) alternative energy.

Virtual Silicon Technology, Inc. supplies semiconductor intellectual property solutions. Its solutions include cell libraries, basic I/O's, applications, memory compilers and programmable phase locked loops. The company was founded in 1997 by Michael G. Kliment and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

JPMorgan Securities LLC (JPMS) is a securities brokerage firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1985 and is a subsidiary of JPMorgan Broker-Dealer Holdings, Inc., ultimately held by JPMorgan Chase & Co., Inc. (NYSE: JPM). JPMS provides research on fixed income, credit, derivatives, emerging markets, foreign exchange, structured finance, technical analysis and bond indices. Their equity analysts cover equities throughout North America, EMEA, Asia/Pacific and the emerging markets. The firm's fixed income team formulates trading and portfolio recommendations for investors in global bonds and other fixed-income markets based on valuations, analytics and market dynamics.

Force10 Networks, Inc. is a technology company, which engages in the provision of infrastructure solutions to build and secure intelligent services networks. The company was founded by Prabhat K. Dubey, Steve Sinclair, and Bruce Miller on September 30, 1999 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Founded in 2008, Odeon Capital Group LLC is an independent full-service broker/dealer located in New York City. The firm provides advice and execution on fundamental value and catalyst-driven situations through sales and trading, research, investment banking and asset management services. Odeon Capital Group provides services related to fixed-income securities including corporate securities, ABS, RMBS, Auction Rate securities and other structured products. The firm serves institutional clients. Odeon Capital Group is a member of FINRA, the SIPC and the MSRB. Odeon Capital Group has expertise in both traditional and esoteric assets. The firm has placed both large and small volume transactions in every asset class. They seek to maximize value for their clients through in-depth analyses of sectors, asset classes and individual securities that are hard to value or trade. The firm's Structured Products and Corporate Groups focus on institutional sales, trading and analytics of secondary structured products, esoteric assets and special situations.

ROTH Capital Partners LLC is a broker/dealer headquartered in Newport Beach, California. The firm was founded in 2001 and is a subsidiary of CR Financial Holdings, Inc. They offer institutional sales and trading services. Their broad institutional coverage includes investors in North America, Canada, UK, Europe and other international territories.

Detwiler Fenton & Co., formerly Detwiler, Mitchell, Fenton & Graves, Inc. is a broker/dealer headquartered in Boston. The firm traces its origins to 1962 with the founding of Fechtor, Detwiler & Co., which merged with JMC Group in August 1999. Detwiler Fenton & Co. is a subsidiary of Detwiler Fenton Group, Inc. (DMCD.PK). The firm's 2 major divisions are the capital markets group and the private client group. Detwiler Fenton Capital Markets provides insightful, timely and focused research across a variety of technology and consumer industry verticals. All of the firm's research is published by licensed analysts. Their research team seeks to generate value-added investment ideas through in-depth research, using a mosaic approach to identify, analyze and understand changing business and market dynamics that can be translated into investment strategy. The firm's research notes are distributed daily to clients. Detwiler Fenton Capital Markets provides investment and brokerage services to institutional investors. Detwiler Fenton & Co.'s private client group provides wealth management services to high net-worth individuals. Their services include: portfolio management, brokerage services, alternative investments, retirement planning, mutual funds and corporate trustee services through NFS.

Part of Broadcom Inc., Media Computer Technologies, Inc. is a company that supplies digital processing and video. The company is based in Santa Clara, CA. The company was founded by Dhimant N. Bhayani. Media Computer Technologies was acquired by C-Cube Microsystems, Inc. on November 20, 1995 for $6.30 million.

Part of Yahoo, Inc., Online Anywhere is a company that delivers HTML web pages to non-PC devices. The company is based in Santa Clara, CA. The company was founded by Anurag Mendhekar.

Part of MiTAC Holdings Corp., TYAN Computer Corp. is a provider of servers for various applications such as HPC, GPU, AI, cloud, data center, storage, 5G, and embedded systems. The company is based in Taipei, Taiwan. TYAN's 1U and 4U dual-socket server barebones support the latest Intel processors for various applications such as HPC, GPU, IoT, data center, storage, and cloud computing. The Taiwanese company was founded in 1994 and offers Intel-based server barebones and embedded motherboards for IoT applications.

Part of TranSwitch Corp., vEngines, Inc. is a company that develops high-density voice processing semiconductor products. The company is based in Fremont, CA. vEngines was acquired by Centillium Communications, Inc., part of TranSwitch Corp. from October 27, 2008 on January 08, 2001 for $15.06 million.

The Elyria Manufacturing Corp. manufactures precision machinery parts for industrial use. The company was founded in 1925 and is headquartered in Elyria, OH.

The Internet Corp. Ltd. provides the complete recruitment solution package. The company was founded by Jonathan Crowe and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

ANZ Bank (Taiwan) Ltd. is engaged in foreign commercial banking services. It operates as branch of ANZ Banking Group Ltd. It offers corporate merchant banking as well as retail banking and private banking services. It offers a range of investment, finance, risk management solutions which caters to the general public, small and medium enterprises, large multinational companies and other financial institutions. The company was founded in 1980 and is headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan.

Kenati Technologies, Inc. provides software solutions for the Home Area Networking market. It also provides solutions for gateway, broadband, wireless, VoIP, VPN, IPTV, and video CPE devices. The company has additional office in Pune, India. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Campbell, CA.