Scott Lawrence Braun

Founded in 2004, TD Securities (USA) LLC is a broker/dealer located in New York City with additional offices in Toronto, Montreal, Calgary, Vancouver, London, Singapore, Tokyo and Sydney. The firm is a subsidiary of Toronto Dominion Holdings (USA), Inc. and their ultimate parent is Toronto-Dominion Bank (NYSE: TD). TD Securities (USA) provides a wide range of capital market products and services to corporate, government and institutional clients in five areas of finance including: investment banking, debt capital markets, institutional equities, foreign exchange and money markets. Their services include the underwriting and distribution of new debt and equity issues, providing advice on strategic acquisitions and divestitures and executing daily trading and investment needs. The equity group provides research coverage of media and communications, technology, financial services, oil and gas, mining and metals, industrial products, forest products, technology, utilities and power, real estate, biotechnology, consumer products and merchandising and quantitative analysis strategy. The fixed-income group provides a full range of underwriting sales and trading products for Canadian, U.S. and European debt issuers and investors.

Fore Research & Management LP is an SEC-registered investment advisor and global hedge fund management firm located in new York City. The firm was established 2003 by Yanxiu "Matthew" Li through a spin off of Toronto Dominion Bank’s global convertible arbitrage business, where the group had operated as an autonomous unit since 1996. Fore Research provides investment advisory or management services on a discretionary basis to their clients which are hedge funds, a single-investor vehicle investing generally pari passu with certain of such hedge funds, and a collateralized loan obligation.