Kevin Baker

Millrace Asset Group, Inc. (Millrace) is an independent registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in Berwyn, Pennsylvania. The firm was founded by William “Bill” Kitchel and Whitney Maroney in 2001. Millrace provides investment advisory services for Millrace Fund and Millrace Capital, LP. Investors in the Funds are accredited investors or institutional investors meeting specific requirements.

Boston-based John Hancock Advisers, Inc. (JHA) is the mutual fund affiliate of John Hancock Financial Services, Inc. and manages the John Hancock family of retail and institutional mutual funds, as well as separate equity portfolios for private accounts and retirement plans for individual and institutional investors. In 2003, Manulife Financial Corp. (TSX, NYSE: MFC) and John Hancock Financial Services, Inc. (NYSE: JHF) announced that they would merge and would thus create a leading global insurance franchise. The combined company will market products and services under multiple brands including John Hancock in the US and Manulife in Canada and the US.

Jefferies Group LLC operates as an investment banking firm. It offers underwriting, mergers and acquisitions, restructuring and recapitalization, and other advisory services. The firm also offers research and execution services in equity, fixed income and foreign exchange markets. The company was founded by Boyd L. Jefferies on October 2, 1962 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Chartwell Investment Partners LLC (Chartwell) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Berwyn, Pennsylvania. The firm was founded by Timothy Riddle in 1997 and is a subsidiary of Carillon Tower Advisers, Inc. (dba Raymond James Investment Management), which is owned by Raymond James Financial, Inc. (NYSE: RJF) in Great Britain. Chartwell provides investment supervisory services on a continuous basis to a variety of individual, institutional, investment company, private fund and corporate clients. The firm is a sub-adviser to investment companies registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940.

Founded in 1992, Cottonwood Research Group LLC is an independent investment research firm located in Mission Hills, Kansas. The firm's research focuses on publicly-traded healthcare companies.