Eric C. Buck

Brean Capital is an independent investment bank and registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1973 and provides equity research, corporate finance and advisory investment banking, equity institutional sales and trading, and asset management to institutional investors and corporate clients. Their fixed income business provides sales, trading, research and banking services on a wide range of mortgage and asset-backed, US Treasury and government agency securities, structured products, corporate bonds, and municipal debt. The fixed income sales team employs a highly analytical approach to bond selection, trade execution, and overall bond portfolio management. Under the guidance of fixed income strategists, the fixed income team uses a combination of qualitative and quantitative analyses to create custom investment portfolios and develop targeted, executable bond trading strategies to complement their clients? balance sheets.

Janco Partners, Inc. is a full-service investment banking firm focusing primarily on institutional research. They are located in Greenwood Village, Colorado. Janco focuses their research efforts on companies within the telecommunications industry and on selected companies of special interest. In an effort to be a value added resource to their clients in their investment decision making process, their objective is to identify investment opportunities within their area of expertise, and present well thought out opinions to their clients.

Mountain Lake Investment Management LLC (MLIM) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in San Francisco, California. The firm was founded by Mitchell E. Cantor in 2001 as Mountain Lake Group LLC and as Katahdin Capital LLC. MLIM provides investment management services to private funds. Their investors include charitable foundations, endowments, municipalities, family offices and qualified individuals.