Rich Gimigliano

Viant Group LLC provides investment and financial advisory services. It offers mergers and acquisitions, raising capital, valuation and advisory, and viant green capital. The company was founded by Scott Smith in 1998 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Founded in 1981, Wall Street Access, formerly Wall Street Clearing Corp., is a broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm is a subsidiary of Wall Street Access Corp.. They offer a full array of investment services to corporations, hedge funds, pension funds, trust banks, investment advisors, money managers, mutual funds and high net-worth individuals. They focus on healthcare, mergers & acquisitions, oil & gas, electricity, natural gas, machinery/agribusiness, small-cap equities and special situations sectors. The firm's merger arbitrage research platform enables investors to track both historic and real-time deal information. Wall Street Access offers best-in-class execution through their fixed-income trading platform that creates aggressive, two-sided markets on a large inventory of fixed-income securities. The firm also provides their clients with traditional sales coverage. They provide execution services for investment grade corporate bonds, U.S. Treasuries and U.S. Agencies to a network of over 2,000 global customers. Wall Street Access' approach creates both market transparency and liquidity in a marketplace that has historically not been served with these essentials. The firm seeks to provide best-in-class trade execution and generation of trading ideas. They actively assess and manage risk while executing innovative transactions in a fast-paced and constantly changing global market. Wall Street Access provides superior service, expertise and speedy execution in equities, options, bonds and currencies. The firm seeks to achieve superior execution through electronic connectivity to multiple exchanges combined with their access to significant pools of liquidity. Wall Street Access is an agent, managing trading volumes and finding liquidity in a discrete manner for their institutional clients. The firm's Prime Brokerage division serves small and medium sized hedge fund clients. Wall Street Access maintains a large institutional equity and options desk, as well as a 35-person fixed-income desk. The firm acts as an introducing broker to Goldman Sachs Execution & Clearing LP. , L.P., so your investors can be confident their assets are safe and secure at a leading custodian. Wall Street Access is a member of NYSE, ISE and NASDAQ OMX, as well as other exchanges.

Founded in 1989, CRT Capital Group LLC is an institutional securities research and brokerage firm located in Stamford, Connecticut. The firm focuses on high-yield and convertible debt, capital structure arbitrage, mergers and acquisitions, special situations and distressed securities. CRT trades senior and subordinated bonds, bank debt, trade claims, convertible bonds, equities, real estate loans, tax exempt securities and private placements.

Headquartered in San Francisco with additional offices in New York City, Minneapolis, Chicago and Boston, ThinkEquity Partners is a broker/dealer. The firm offers targeted research and investment banking services for institutional investors and corporate clients. They specialize in identifying, analyzing and understanding the technological, macroeconomic and cultural trends that impact key growth verticals, with a particular concentration on healthcare, technology, media/education and business/consumer services. The firm starts with a top-down analysis approach and then allocates resources based on a long-range research roadmap.

A subsidiary of Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc., Lehman Brothers, Inc. is a broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. They provide global equity and fixed research. The equity research department covers more than 100 sectors. They use a fundamental, quantitative, strategic and tactical research approach. In addition to these Lehman has also developed special products, such as 10 uncommon values and 10 uncommon eurovalues.

Founded in 1998, Thomas Weisel Partners (TWP) is a broker/dealer headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York City, Boston, Denver, Colorado and Palo Alto, California. The firm is a subsidiary of Thomas Weisel Partners Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: TWPG), a San Francisco-based investment banking firm. Their ultimate parent is Stifel Financial Corp. (NYSE: SF). TWP's investment banking, brokerage and equity research divisions serve emerging growth companies and institutional investors around the world. They are a member of the NYSE, the SIPC and FINRA. TWP specializes in the growth sectors of the economy with a particular focus on the consumer, energy, healthcare, Internet, media/telecommunications, metals/mining and technology sectors. Within the consumer sector, the firm focuses on: financial products, gaming/lodging, interactive market services, lifestyles/sports retailers, restaurants and hardlines and softlines retailing. TWP's global energy research is provided by analysts in three countries and covers the following trends: (1) fast-growing oil and natural gas producers in North America and worldwide (2) domestic and international energy service companies and (3) alternative energy technology and resource developers. Within the healthcare sector, TWP focuses on: biotechnology, diagnostics, healthcare information technology, pharmaceutical services, life science technology, medical devices and specialty pharmaceuticals. The firm's interest in the Internet, media and telecommunications sector include: Internet services, media, broadcasting and telecommunications services. Their focus within the metals and mining sector include: base metals, gold, precious metals and uranium. TWP's technology research focuses on: (1) applied technologies (2) communications components (3) core and wireless communications equipment (4) IP networking communications equipment (5) electronic supply chain (6) enterprise hardware (7) information and financial technology services (8) semiconductor capital equipment (9) broadline and specialty semiconductors (10) applications and communications software and (11) infrastructure software. TWP also provides value-added equities analysis across a variety of sectors including: industrials, financials, consumer, technology and healthcare.