Stephen Albert

Inverness Counsel LLC is a privately-owned, SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1967 and provides investment management services on both discretionary and non-discretionary bases to individual, family, trust, pension and profit-sharing plan, tax-exempt organization and other institutional clients.

Nomura Corporate Research & Asset Management, Inc. (NCRAM) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1991 as a subsidiary of Nomura Holding America, Inc., itself a subsidiary of Nomura Holding, Inc. (TYO: 8604, NYSE: NMR) in Japan. NCRAM provides both discretionary and non-discretionary investment management services to institutional investors in the US and globally.

Founded in 1986, Tanaka Capital Management, Inc. provides investment management services to individuals, pension plans and endowments, and is the advisor to the Tanaka Growth Fund. The firm is located in New York City.

Deltec Asset Management LLC is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2000 to complete the management buy-out of the assets and business of Deltec Asset Management Corp. They are now wholly-owned by Blue Tee Partners LLC and certain employees of Deltec. Deltec provides discretionary management of investments in domestic and emerging market equity, debt and equivalent securities for pooled and separate accounts.

Kidder, Peabody & Co., Inc. provides security brokerage services. The private company is based in Buffalo, NY and has subsidiaries in Switzerland. The company was founded by Thomas W. Ostrander.

Financial Guaranty Insurance Co. engages in the provision of insurance solutions. It offers financial guaranty, mortgage insurance, and mortgage services for credit enhancement on public finance and structured finance securities. The company was founded by Roger K. Taylor in 1983 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

G.H. Walker & Co. provides investment banking and other financial services. The private company is based in St. Louis, MO.

Gulton Industries, Inc. engages in the manufacture of print heads. It offers thermal print heads through the following brands: Autotote, Axiohm, Bizerba, Datamax, Encore3, Fujitsu, Gultonm. Hengstler, Hobart, IBM, IER, Intermec, Italora, Miltope, Monarch, NCR, O'Neil, Oki Data, Seiko, Zebra, and Digi. The company was founded by Leslie Gulton and Edith Gulton in 1972 and is headquartered in South Plainfield, NJ.