Tom E. Egan

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 1980, Garden State Securities, Inc. (GSS) is an SEC-registered broker/dealer located in Red Bank, New Jersey. The firm is a Member FINRA/SIPC. GSS's Corporate Finance and Investment Banking Department, GSS Capital Group, specializes and focuses on providing high standards of professional and personalized investment banking services to their corporate clientele, as well as providing unique investment opportunities to their institutional and high net worth accredited investors. The firm focuses on discovering new, exciting and emerging companies with the goal of not only providing capital, but also being a strategic financial partner to their corporate clients. In conjunction with their nationwide network of independent Financial Representatives, GSS provides their institutional and sophisticated individual investors with proprietary, unique, and well-structured investment opportunities with the goal of maximizing potential returns on their investments. GSS's clearing partner is RBC Correspondent Services, which is a division of RBC Capital Markets LLC, member NYSE/FINRA/SIPC. RBC Capital Markets LLC is owned by Royal Bank of Canada (NYSE: RBC).