Jeff J. Singer

SWS Group, Inc. is a diversified financial services holding company. The company delivers investment banking, commercial banking and related financial services to individual, corporate and institutional investors, broker/dealers, governmental entities and financial intermediaries. It operates through four segments: Clearing, Retail Brokerage, Institutional Brokerage and Banking. The Clearing segment provides clearing and execution services for general securities broker/dealers, for bank affiliated firms and firms specializing in high volume trading. The Retail Brokerage segment includes retail securities products and services, insurance products and managed accounts and encompasses the activities of its employee registered representatives and independent representatives. The Institutional Brokerage segment serves institutional customers in securities lending, investment banking and public finance, fixed income sales and trading, proprietary trading and agency execution services. The Banking segment offers traditional banking products and services and focuses on small business lending and short-term funding for mortgage bankers. SWS Group was founded by Donald A. Buchholz in 1972 and is headquartered in Dallas, TX.

Levantina USA, Inc. is a private company that manufactures and supplies various types of natural stone including marble, granite, travertine, and limestone. The company is based in Dallas, TX.

Hilltop Securities, Inc. (dba HilltopSecurities) is a broker/dealer firm headquartered in Dallas, Texas. The firm was founded in 1946 as Southwest Securities, Inc. and they a subsidiary of Hilltop Securities Holdings LLC. Hilltop Securities provides a full array of trading and execution services for their clients.

Dillon Read Capital Management is a New York City-based hedge fund boutique subsidiary of UBS Global Asset Management (Americas), Inc., itself a division of UBS AG (NYSE: UBS).

A subsidiary of Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc., Lehman Brothers, Inc. is a broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. They provide global equity and fixed research. The equity research department covers more than 100 sectors. They use a fundamental, quantitative, strategic and tactical research approach. In addition to these Lehman has also developed special products, such as 10 uncommon values and 10 uncommon eurovalues.