Jeffrey M. Chertoff

Founded in 2003 by Matthew Mayers and Joshua Siegel, StoneCastle Partners is a private equity firm located in New York City. The firm is affiliated with StoneCastle Advisors LLC, a registered investment advisor. Their ultimate parent is StoneCastle Partners LLC, a New York City-based holding company.

eSpeed, Inc. provides financial technology products. It a publicly traded company since December of 1999, is the definitive marketplace technology provider for the financial capital markets of the world. The company innovative technology creates the most neutral, liquid and efficient electronic marketplace imaginable right on the trader's desktop

Daiwa Capital Markets America, Inc. (DCMA), formerly Daiwa Securities America, Inc., is an SEC-registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City and was founded in 1964. The firm is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Daiwa Capital Markets America Holdings, Inc., itself a wholly-owned subsidiary of Daiwa Securities Capital Markets Co. Ltd., which is a subsidiary of Daiwa Securities Group, Inc. (TK: 8601), a Tokyo-based investment bank and broker/dealer. DCMA provides high quality investment data, analysis and research products to major U.S. institutional investors.

Bear, Stearns & Co., Inc. is a global investment banking, securities trading and brokerage firm located in New York City with additional offices in Dallas, Boston and San Francisco. The firm is a subsidiary Bear Sterns Cos., Inc. (NYSE: BSC). Their equity research team consists of senior analysts located throughout the world. In addition to domestic coverage, they have research teams focusing on Latin America, Asia and Europe. The analysts use a bottom-up approach to stock selection. The Bear Stearns fixed-income research department provides coverage of every sector of the fixed-income universe. The financial analytics and structured transactions group (F.A.S.T) provides investment research, fixed-income portfolio management and analytical systems, trading technology and general financial expertise. The group also provides a broad range of services to financial institutions including asset-liability management, balance sheet restructuring, receivables-based financing analysis, security and portfolio analysis, peer analysis, and historical and real-time market-based information.

PricewaterhouseCoopers International Ltd. operates as an international association of accounting and consultancy firm. The company was founded on June 24, 1998 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Bonds.com Group, Inc. operates through its indirect, wholly-owned subsidiary Bonds.com, Inc. The company operates an electronic trading platform under the name BondsPRO. This platform offers large institutional investors an alternative trading system to trade odd-lot fixed-income securities. It provides fixed income trading platform that allows traders to access liquidity and improve prices in the highly-fragmented, inefficient fixed income markets. The company also offers live, executable bids and offers in corporate, agencies, municipals, U.S. treasuries, CDs, mortgage backed securities, emerging market debt and structured products and brokerage and investment advisory services. It also provides news, financial, and other content services to assist the clients in their investment decisions and offers general market information. The company was founded on October 18, 2005 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

LaBranche & Co., Inc. provides securities execution and brokerage services to institutional investors and professional traders. The company was founded by George M.L. LaBranche Jr. in 1924 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. is the investment bank and brokerage subsidiary of CFS CF & Co. I Holdings LP, which is owned by Cantor Fitzgerald LP in the US. The firm was founded by Bernie Gerald Cantor and John Fitzgerald in 1945. Headquartered in New York City, Cantor Fitzgerald offers clients a global, multi-asset prime brokerage platform with a focus on the quality middle market.