John Carpenter Bowen

Covington Associates LLC (CAL) is an investment banking, financial advisory and broker/dealer headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts and was founded in 1991. CAL provides investment banking services, as well as advisory services in the areas of mergers and acquisitions (M&A), capital raising, strategic advisory services, fairness opinions and valuations and capital restructuring. They focus on four distinct areas including business services, consumer & industrials, healthcare and technology. Covington Associates provides an array of trading and execution services for their clients. They do not provide any internal research.

Founded in 2001 by Jonathan Hodson-Walker, Silverwood Partners LLC is a broker/dealer headquartered in Sherborn, Massachusetts. The firm provides fundamental strategic research covering the media communication technology, interactive communication technology, healthcare and healthcare technology, software and information technology, financial services technology and industrial and consumer growth sectors. In addition to information gathered through primary research on public and private companies, Silverwood Partners also uses extensive secondary research sources for each sector under coverage. The firm is a member of FINRA and the SIPC.

Sybase, Inc. engages in the development and provision of mobile and wireless software solutions for data integration. The company was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in San Ramon, CA.