Mark Hamel

CFRA is the independent global leader in forensic accounting research and due-diligence services for the institutional investment, financial services, insurance, corporate, legal, and regulatory communities. The company was founded in the year 1994. CFRA is headquartered outside of Washington, DC with offices in Boston, Chicago, and London

Founded in 1969, QS Batterymarch Financial Management, Inc. is a registered investment advisor located in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm is a wholly-owned, independently managed subsidiary of Legg Mason, Inc. (NYSE: LM). They provide investment advisory and sub-advisory services to a wide variety of institutional investors. Legg Mason, Inc.'s acquisition of QS Investors LLC was effective May 30, 2014. As a result, QS Investors, Batterymarch Financial Management, Inc. and Legg Mason Global Asset Allocation LLC became subject to common management and investment oversight, with the objective of integrating the firms to create a combined investment platform offering solutions, quantitative equity, liquid alternatives and multi-manager asset allocation.

Founded in 2003, Assay Research LLC is an independent research firm located in Alexandria, Virginia. The firm provides quality-of-earnings analysis to professional money managers. Their research focuses on a company's financial statements and accounting policies to provide insight beyond the reports of Wall Street investment banks. Assay Research seeks to identify companies whose use of aggressive accounting practices and other questionable maneuvers may conceal fundamental deterioration or other weaknesses in their businesses. Assay Research follows publicly-traded companies in the following sectors: biotechnology, business services, consumer, defense, gaming, healthcare, industrial, pharmaceutical, retail, technology and telecommunications.