Christopher R. Ellinghaus

Established in 1982, Shields & Co., formerly Capital Management Associates (CMA), is a registered investment adviser and mid-cap value manager for pension plans, foundations and endowments, hospitals and private clients. They also manage the Capital Management Mid-Cap and Small-Cap mutual funds. They are located in New York City.

Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc. (DBSI) is a SEC-registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1971 and is a wholly-owned investment banking and brokerage arm of DB U.S. Financial Markets Holding Corp., ultimately held by Deutsche Bank AG (NYSE: DB, FRA: DBK) in Germany. DBSI provides securities brokerage and investment advisory services to domestic and international private clients and institutions. They are also a primary dealer in US government securities as designated by the Federal Reserve.

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 1994, Williams Capital Group LP is an investment banking firm and broker/dealer located in New York City. The firm serves institutional investors and corporations in the in equity, fixed-income, corporate finance, investment management and private equity markets. Williams Capital provides debt and equity underwriting, secondary market trading, equity research, stock repurchase and corporate finance advisory services. The firm trades and distributes commercial paper and other money market instruments, structured products, corporate debt, government agency notes, and domestic and international equities. The trading desk provides clients with full-service execution for all listed and over-the-counter stocks. Williams Capital Group's clients include small institutional and hedge fund managers, mutual funds, insurance companies and public and private pension funds. The firm's traders provide clients with proprietary research generated by their analytical staff. Williams Capital Group is a member of FINRA and the SIPC.

Part of NatWest Group Plc, RBS Equity Corp. is a private equity firm. The company is based in New York, NY.

Wellington Shields Capital Management LLC (WSCM) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and wealth management firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2010 and is a subsidiary of Wellington Shields Holdings LLC. WSCM provides discretionary and non-discretionary portfolio management advisory services to individuals, corporations, trust, estates, charitable organizations, pension and profit-sharing plans, as well as other types of businesses and institutional clients.

Part of Shank Williams Cisneros LLC, Siebert Williams Shank & Co. LLC is a leading national women- and minority-owned investment banking firm. The company is based in New York, NY. The company offers investment banking, sales and trading, research, and advisory services. The company was founded in 2019 by Suzanne F. Shank. Suzanne F. Shank has been the CEO since 2019.

Founded in 2008, Wellington Shields & Co. LLC is a broker/dealer located in New York City. The firm is a subsidiary of Wellington Shields Holdings LLC. Wellington Shields & Co was formed as the result of a merger between Shields & Company and H.G. Wellington & Co., Inc. The firm offers a variety of products and services including equity research and equity and fixed-income investment capabilities. Wellington Shields & Co. is a member of the NYSE, NASDAQ, FINRA and the SIPC.