H. Christopher DeCotiis

Carlson Capital LP is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor and alternative asset management firm headquartered in Dallas, Texas. The firm was founded by Clinton Carlson in 1993. Carlson Capital provides discretionary investment advisory services to privately-offered pooled investment vehicles and certain managed accounts.

Oppenheimer & Co., Inc. provides security brokerage services. It also offers investment banking and advice to high net worth investors, individuals, businesses and institutions. The company is headquartered in New York, NY.

BNP Paribas Securities Corp. engages in the provision of brokerage services. It offers commercial banking, corporate and institutional banking, asset management, fleet services, and real estate. The company was founded on September 7, 1984 and is headquartered New York, NY.

Chapdelaine & Co, also known as “Chappy,” is a municipal bond broker's broker, and member of SIPC. Chapdelaine & Co. has more than forty five years of experience in the municipal bond market. Their firm provides dealer to dealer service and sales over the entire spectrum of the municipal market. Their brokers are registered with the FINRA and have account responsibilities arranged according to regions of the country or by maturity. The Chapdelaine & Co. trading room organization provides the synergy required, achieving a level of professional service and market execution unparalleled in the municipal market place today. The Chapdelaine home page provides a unique opportunity to client's firm by affording client accesses to current market offerings, bids, and bid wanteds and continually reflects reported changes. Their site features are user friendly and provide customer with quick access to information enabling customer to fill specific inquires for their firm and their firm's customers in the most timely and efficient manner. Each customer serviced by Chapdelaine & Co must be licensed and registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), or the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB). Each customer of Chapdelaine and Co. is required to meet SEC net capital requirements and provide Chapdelaine & Co. with a copy of their most recent FOCUS 1 report demonstrating compliance with net capital requirements. In addition each customer will provide Chapdelaine & Co. with their clearance information, current clearing account numbers, and appropriate points of contact (POCs) for back office issues. Upon receipt of the above required information Chapdelaine & Co. will provide the same to the customer and will assign a broker as customer's point of contact (POC), enabling customer to execute trades with their brokers. The Chapdelaine & Co. trading room is organized to provide the best coverage throughout the yield curve. To accomplish this their trading activity is organized as follows: First, a Short Desk, specializing in securities maturing within the first seven years of the yield curve. Secondly, they have their National Desk that concentrates on securities maturing within 8yrs to 17yrs from issuance. Thirdly, their Dollar Bond Desk has responsibility to trade securities maturing within 18yrs and 40 years from issuance. Additional organizational features at Chapdelaine & Co. include their regional trading desks, which have primary responsibility to cover the dealers and dealer banks in the Southeast, California, Southwest, Ohio, Chicago and Midwest states. Lastly, their New York trading desk along with their Taxable and Zero coupon trading desks complete their organization matrix which has a proven history of producing optimum results in all aspects of customer service.

Founded in 1985, NatWest Markets Securities, Inc. is a financial services and brokerage firm headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut. The firm is a subsidiary of RBS Holdings USA, Inc. and their ultimate parent is the Royal Bank of Scotland Plc (LSE: RBS). The firm was formerly known as RBS Securities, Inc., RBS Greenwich Capital, and Greenwich Capital Markets, Inc. NatWest is an institutional fixed-income firm that provides a full range of debt capital markets services to both those seeking to raise capital and those seeking to invest it. The firm is an industry leader in the U.S. Treasury, agency and MBS markets and in providing real estate and asset-backed financing to their clients. NatWest also provides futures brokerage services and trade strategies to select clients.

Duke University is an academic university that offers undergraduate, graduate and professional programs. It also has publications and research services. The university was founded in 1838 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

Nomura Securities International, Inc. (NSI) is a registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City and was founded in 1969. The firm is a division of Nomura Holding America, Inc. and their ultimate parent is Nomura Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: NMR, TYO: 8604, AMS: 8604). NSI provides securities brokerage services, as well as asset management, domestic retail, global markets, global investment banking and global merchant banking services. The firm's fixed-income business consists of bond sales and trading, origination and product supply for securitization deals and real estate-focused asset finance operations (in cooperation with Investment Banking). In the equity markets, NSI offers sales and trading of domestic and foreign stocks on a global basis, primarily for institutional investors.

Investcorp Investment Advisers LLC (IIA) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in New York City. It was founded in 2005 as part of Investcorp Group, whose primary operating entity is Investcorp Holdings BSC in Bahrain. The firm is a direct, wholly-owned subsidiary of Investcorp International Holdings Inc. (IIHI). IIA offers alternative investment solutions, private equity, and real estate advisory services. The firm provides non-discretionary investment advisory services to institutional investors, and provides discretionary investment management services to pooled investment vehicles or investment vehicles dedicated to a single investor.

The Louis Berger Group, Inc. provides engineering consulting services. It offers civil, structural, mechanical, electrical, and environmental engineering services. The company was founded by Louis Berger in 1953 and is headquartered in Morristown, NJ.

Bank of the West operates as a state chartered commercial bank. It offers retail banking, small and medium enterprise banking, pacific rim banking, commercial banking, wealth management, and personal finance. The company was founded in 1874 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

OCM Distressed Debt Group (OCM) is an private equity firm founded in 1995 by Bruce Allen Karsh and Sheldon Michael Stone. The firm is an operating division of Oaktree Capital Management LP. The firm is headquartered in Los Angeles.

Investcorp Technology Investment Group is a wholly owned subsidiary of Investcorp Bank (BH: INVCORP) in Bahrain. The firm was founded in 1982 and headquarter in New York. The firm have expertise across a number of verticals including Data Security, FinTech & ePayments and Internet Mobility.

Wells Fargo Strategic Capital, Inc. (Wells Fargo Strategic Capital) is a private equity firm subsidiary of Wells Fargo & Co founded in 1996. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California with additional offices in Texas New York, Charlotte, Chicago, and Houston.

Oppenheimer & Co., Inc. (Wealth Management) (Oppenheimer & Co.) is the investment management division of Oppenheimer & Co., Inc., which is ultimately owned by Oppenheimer Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: OPY), an integrated financial services holdings company. Headquartered in New York City, Oppenheimer & Co. provides customized investment advice on a range of traditional and nontraditional products to individuals, families, corporate executives and institutions.

Perkins School for the Blind provides educational and community programs for the visually impaired. Its programs encompass diagnostic evaluations, sign language classes and community living services. The company was founded in 1832 and is headquartered in Watertown, MA.

Berger Group Holdings, Inc. provides architecture, engineering, planning and environmental consultancy services. It services include capacity building and technical assistance, cultural resource management, economics and financial services, emergency and disaster management, engineering, environmental services, operations, maintenance, planning, program and construction management. The company was founded by Louis Berger in 1953 and is headquartered in Morristown, NJ.