Stephen P. Ortiz

Founded by James Montgomery in 1986, Montgomery & Co. LLC, formerly Digital Coast Partners LLC, is an investment banking firm and broker/dealer headquartered in Santa Monica, California with an additional office in San Francisco. The firm provides a broad range of services including mergers & acquisitions, private placements and strategic advisory services. Montgomery & Co. is a member of the NASD and the SIPC. They focus on growth companies in the software, healthcare and media sectors. Within the software sector, the firm focuses on: (1) enterprise software (2) infrastructure software (3) vertical applications including healthcare information technology and human capital management and (4) business intelligence. Montgomery & Co.'s interests within the healthcare sector include: (1) information technology security (2) wireless (3) IP infrastructure and services (4) semiconductors/enterprise hardware (5) technology-enabled services (6) biotechnology (7) healthcare services (8) consumer healthcare (9) specialty pharmaceuticals (10) medical devices (11) tools and equipment and (12) reagents. Within the media sector, the firm focuses on: (1) advertising and marketing services (2) digital media services (3) entertainment, content and distribution (4) mobile media and (5) online services.

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.

Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, Banc of America Securities (BAS) is the investment banking subsidiary of Bank of America Corp (NYSE: BAC). The firm provides both the domestic and international equity and investment banking markets, and pursues a strategy pioneered by Citigroup that combines corporate lending with investment banking advice and services. They provide high-yield debt underwriting and leveraged finance, in addition to industry coverage groups such as healthcare, media and telecom, financial institutions, real estate and gaming. BAS also does a significant amount of work for Financial Sponsors, or private equity firms, often financing leveraged transactions. Following the strategy of Goldman Sachs, the firm lacks a standalone mergers and acquisitions department, instead employing mergers and acquisitions senior bankers throughout the industry coverage groups. The firm is registered as a broker/dealer with the SEC, is a member of the NYSE, and the NASD. The use of Banc in the BAS's name is indicative of the fact that the company is not a bank, and their deposits and other holdings are not insured by the FDIC.

Citizens JMP Securities LLC (Citizens JMP) is a full-service investment bank and broker/dealer headquartered in San Francisco, California. The firm was founded by Joseph Jolson in 2002 and was formerly JMP Securities LLC. The firm is a subsidiary of JMP Holding LLC, ultimately held by Citizens Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: CFG). Citizens JMP provides equity research, institutional brokerage, and investment banking services to public and private growth companies and their investors. They are a research-driven, growth-oriented firm that provides services to small- and mid-sized companies and the institutions that invest in them. The firm specializes in four high-growth sectors of the economy: technology, healthcare, financial services, and real estate.