Michael W. Knepper

Founded in 1996, Investrend, Inc. is a research firm headquartered in Forest Hills, New York. The firm specializes in an integrated, interdependent approach, pulling together research, broadcast, forums and information platforms as needed to create a cohesive platform to enhance events, conferences, research, publications and information distributions worldwide with services skewed toward shareholder empowerment.

Located in New York City, Punk, Ziegel & Co. is a specialty investment bank providing a full range of research, equity market making and corporate finance services focusing on high growth sectors within the healthcare technology, biotechnology and life sciences industries. Punk, Ziegel's, in-depth securities analysis begins with the identification of high-growth industries and timely investment ideas before they have been fully exploited by the investment community. Within these industry niches, their analysts pinpoint companies offering leadership potential and maximum investment opportunities. Issue-oriented, in-depth analysis is then generated on a continuing basis to insure that their investment and corporate finance advice remains accurate and up-to-date.

Ramp Corp. develops and markets the CareGiver and CarePoint suite of technologies through its wholly-owned subsidiary HealthRamp. Its technologies enable medical professionals and institutions to easily access, capture, and share critical medical information directly at the point-of-care. The company's technology CareGiver, a long term care facility staff to easily place orders for drugs, treatments and supplies from a wireless handheld PDA or desktop web browser and CarePoint, an electronic prescribing, lab orders & results, Internet-based communication, data integration and transaction processing over a handheld device at the point-of-care. It focuses on providing physicians and other healthcare providers with a low-cost, easily adopted, narrowly defined set of technologies, whose primary functionality is currently centered on electronic prescribing. The company's products enable communication of value-added healthcare information among physician offices, pharmacies, hospitals, pharmacy benefit managers, health management organizations, pharmaceutical companies and health insurance companies.