Rafay Khalid

Broadpoint.Gleacher Securities, formerly Broadpoint Capital, Inc. is an independent, institutional investment banking, sales and trading boutique headquartered in New York City. They were also previously known as First Albany Capital, Inc. The firm is a subsidiary of Broadpoint Securities Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: BPSG), formerly known as First Albany Cos., Inc. They have additional offices in Boston, Chicago, Denver, San Francisco, Bonita Springs, Florida, Glen Allen, Virginia, Roseland, New Jersey and St. Louis, Missouri. Broadpoint.Gleacher follows a range of fixed-income securities and provides proprietary views and analysis on credit fundamentals and trading dynamics. They focus on investment grade, high yield and convertible securities in the following sectors: consumer, building materials, financials, gaming / leisure, healthcare, homebuilding, industrials, mining, packaging, paper/forest products, power/energy, technology/media/telecommunications and transportation.

ROTH Capital Partners LLC is a broker/dealer headquartered in Newport Beach, California. The firm was founded in 2001 and is a subsidiary of CR Financial Holdings, Inc. They offer institutional sales and trading services. Their broad institutional coverage includes investors in North America, Canada, UK, Europe and other international territories.

Standard & Poor's Investment Advisory Services LLC (SPIAS) is investment research firm and registered investment advisor headquartered in New York City. The firm is a wholly-owned subsidiary of S&P Global, Inc. (NYSE: SPGI), formerly McGraw Hill Financial, Inc. SPIAS’ advisory services are generally offered to institutions (e.g., broker-dealers, investment advisers, investment companies and other financial institutions). SPIAS does not generally provide its advisory services directly to retail clients, but its services may be used by its clients in advising their own underlying clients, which may include retail clients. SPIAS also provides advisory consulting services to institutional clients and investment managers-of-investment funds, and investment sub-advisory services for registered investment companies, including open-end mutual funds and other institutions. S&P Global's operations consist of three reportable segments: S&P Global Ratings, S&P Global Platts, and S&P Dow Jones Indices. S&P Global Ratings is an independent provider of credit ratings, research and analytics to investors, issuers and market participants. It includes the NRSRO and certain other ratings-related businesses. S&P Global Platts provides essential price data, analytics, and industry insight that enable commodities markets to perform with greater transparency and efficiency. S&P Dow Jones Indices is a global index provider that maintains a wide variety of indices to meet an array of investor needs. In 2016, CFRA acquired S&P Global Market Intelligence’s Equity and Fund Research business (formerly known as S&P Capital IQ and SNL) from S&P Global, Inc.

Wedbush Securities, Inc. is a full-service investment bank and brokerage firm headquartered in Los Angeles, California. The firm was founded in 1955 as Wedbush Morgan Securities, Inc. They are a subsidiary of Wedbush Financial Services LLC, which is owned by Wedbush, Inc. Wedbush Securities provides a wide range of securities brokerage, wealth management, and investment banking services to private and institutional clients. Their research focuses on providing coverage of small and mid-sized companies in the following industries: (1) consumer products and services (2) technology (3) entertainment and media (4) life sciences and (5) industrial growth and clean technology.

Founded in 1998 by William R. Hambrecht, WR Hambrecht + Co. LLC is a registered broker/dealer headquartered in San Francisco, California. The firm offers a full array of investment services. They provide research that focuses on the (1) Asia-Pacific, biotechnology, business applications and services sectors (2) the China Internet and technology sector (3) consumer (4) enterprise software and Internet (5) gaming technology (6) Internet (7) medical technology (8) nanotechnology (9) networking and data infrastructure (10) semiconductors and devices and (11) specialty pharmaceuticals.