Caesar M. Silvestro

Founded in 1999 by the late Thomas Watson, Janney Montgomery Scott LLC (JMS) is a full-service financial services firm and registered broker/dealer headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The firm is a subsidiary of Independence Square Properties LLC, itself a subsidiary of Penn Mutual Insurance Co. Their ultimate parent is Harleysville Mutual Insurance Co. JMS is a member of the NYSE, the SIPC and FINRA. The firm provides comprehensive financial advice and services to individual, corporate and institutional investors. Their primary coverage verticals include the consumer, technology, financials and infrastructure sectors.

Founded in 1987, SAMCO Capital Markets, Inc. is a broker/dealer headquartered in Austin, Texas with additional offices in Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, New York City and Edmund, Oklahoma. The firm specializes in serving financial institutions. Their expertise lies in public finance and trading, institutional sales, taxable fixed-income trading, high yield and public funds management. SAMCO provides advisory services to issuers of municipal debt in the Southwest and Southeast U.S. Their traders and underwriters make primary and secondary markets in municipal bonds on a national basis. The firm provides advisory services to issuers of municipal debt in the Southwestern and Southeastern U.S. SAMCO's institutional sales department provides coverage of both tier-one national accounts, regional banks and trust departments. They are a leading distributor in the Southwestern U.S. for bank-qualified new issuances. The firm is active in trading and positioning taxable fixed-income securities, including U.S. Treasuries, Agencies, mortgage backed securities, collateralized mortgage obligations, corporate securities and municipal bonds, including high yield. SAMCO's public funds management group specializes in investment, financial management and banking for public entities such as counties, cities and school districts.

Maxcor Financial, Inc. is a broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. They provide research and execution to the institutional money management community, corporations with publicly-traded securities and other institutional clients. They specialize in municipal securities, corporate bonds (including high grade and high yield), convertible securities and equities. Their analysts provide trading ideas and market insights to the client base. Maxcor is a subsidiary of Maxcor Financial Group, Inc.

Gildale Advisors LLC is a hedge fund firm located in New York City

MF Global, Inc. is an investment advisor located in New York City. The firm is a subsidiary of MF Global Holdings Ltd. (NYSE: MF). They provide a variety of services and support for institutions, corporations, government entities, introducing brokers and other industry professionals and individual investors and traders.

Founded in 2009, Chapdelaine Credit Partners (CCP) is a broker/dealer located in New York City. The firm provides a variety of credit products to institutional clients worldwide. Their clients include pension funds, insurance companies, hedge funds and other institutional investors. CCP performs fundamental analysis across all credit asset classes and key industry sectors. The firm's vertically integrated credit platform includes a range of diversified credit products including investment grade, high yield, bank loan, distressed and structured products. CCP focuses on less liquid sectors including: (1) Auction Rate Securities (2) CDOs and other subordinated and preferred securities (3) small-to-large middle market bank loans (4) European credits and (5) Yankee issuers