Jim Hoffman

Credit Suisse Securities (Canada) Inc. is a broker/dealer headquartered in Toronto, Ontario with offices worldwide. The firm is a subsidiary of Credit Suisse Group (NYSE: CS). Their equity research equity group engages in a broad range of activities for investors including sales, trading, financing, prime brokerage and market-making in U.S. and international equity and equity related securities, options, futures, risk management and hedging products. Their activities cover both exchange-traded and over-the-counter traded securities, including American depositary receipts, restricted stocks, equity repurchases, block trade executions, program trading executions, equity derivatives and convertible securities. The fixed-income franchise operates as a single, unified platform that handles all fixed-income cash and derivative products. Products and services range from securitization and liability management transactions to sales and trading and superior research.

Stockwell Capital LLC (Stockwell Capital) is a private equity subsidiary of Glencoe Ltd founded in 2002. The firm is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

PPC Investment Partners LP (PPC Investment Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 2002 by Tony N. Pritzker and Jay Robert Pritzker. The firm is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

Robert W. Baird & Co., Inc. operates as a wealth management, capital markets, private equity and asset management firm. It offers equity research, corporate restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, public financing and fixed income services. The firm serves individual, corporate, institutional and municipal clients. The company was founded by Robert Wilson Baird in 1919 and is headquartered in Milwaukee, WI.

Carter-Waters LLC distributes construction materials and equipment. It also maintains rental inventory of concrete forming and shoring products, operates a custom rebar fabrication facility, manufactures special asphalt product at the Saturock Plant and provides estimating and detailing services for bid lettings. The company has offices in Collinsville, Columbia, Kansas City, Olathe, St. Charles, Springfield, Washington and Wichita. Carter-Waters was founded by Kemper Carter and Bert Waters in 1922 and is headquartered in Kansas City, MO.

Magna Capital LLC is an Independent Private Equity firm founded in 2010 by Jim E. Hoffman. The firm is headquartered in Chicago.

The Pritzker Group operates as a family investment firm. It engages in private capital and venture capital. The company was founded by Tony Pritzker and Jay Robert Pritzker in 1996 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.