Mark Aydin

DLA Piper LLP provides legal services to clients. It offers services in the areas of corporate and securities, venture capital and emerging companies, litigation. The company was founded in 2005 and it is headquartered in Baltimore, MD.

Founded in 1986, Merriman Capital, Inc. is an SEC-registered broker/dealer and investment banking firm headquartered in San Francisco. The firm is a subsidiary of Merriman Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: MERR), a financial services firm that focuses on fast-growing companies and their institutional investors. Merriman provides advisory and investment banking, equity research, institutional services, corporate services and venture services primarily to corporate clients. Merriman Capital provides research, brokerage and trading services primarily to institutional clients. The firm offers a full range of specialized and integrated services including: equity research, specialized trade execution, equity capital markets, corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, sales and trading, market making, corporate and venture services, restructurings and strategic advisory services. Merriman Capital employs bottom-up, fundamental analysis of small-cap companies in select industries including clean technology, healthcare, technology and consumer/Internet/media. The firm also has expertise in emerging markets, with emphasis on emerging markets in China. Merriman Capital is known to engage in shareholder activist investment strategies. Merriman Capital is a member of the NASD, the SIPC and FINRA. The firm serves as an introducing broker/dealer for Pershing LLC. They do not hold or maintain funds or securities or provide clearing services for other broker/dealers.

Summit Broadband, Inc. engages in provision of broadband communication services. It offers commercial and residential solutions including TV, internet, home phone, bundles and commercial services. The company was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Orlando, FL.

Triple Play Brasil Participações SA provides broadband internet services. It offers a complete set of data services, complemented by video and fixed-line services. The firm operating segments include (i) all the decisions of administrators and managers are made based on consolidated reports; (ii) the mission of the Group and its subsidiaries is to provide its customers with telecommunications services with quality; and (iii) all decisions related to strategic and financial planning, purchases, investments and investments of funds are taken on a consolidated basis. The company was founded in March 2015 and is headquartered in Itaim Bibi, Brazil.

Grain Management LLC (Grain Management) is a private equity firm founded in 2007 by David Grain. The firm is headquartered in Washington, Columbia.

Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC is a registered broker-dealer subsidiary of Morgan Stanley Domestic Holdings, Inc., ultimately owned by Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) in the US. Headquartered in New York City, the firm was founded in 1987 and provides debt and equity services including underwriting, M&A advice, securities dealing and brokerage and trade execution. Their client base ranges from large global institutional investors to hedge funds at the cutting edge of innovation in the industry.

Sidoti & Co. LLC (S&C) is a registered broker and equity research firm headquartered in New York City. The firm is a subsidiary of Sidoti Holding Co. LLC and was founded in 1999. S&C provides research exclusively to institutional investors. The firm covers the following sectors: housing, retail, basic industries, technology, business services, capital goods, automotive, computer software, regional banking, telecommunications, entertainment, healthcare and consumer products. Their analysts conduct their own due diligence which includes visiting companies and meeting with operating and financial management. In addition, the firm's analysts focus on fundamentals, particularly cash flow from operations and EPS.

Andin International, Inc. manufactures and distributes jewelry products. It serves the large-volume of retailers including J.C. Penney, Macy's, QVC, Sears, and Zale in the United States. The company was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in New York City, NY.

CLSA Americas LLC is a FINRA registered broker-dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2012 and is a wholly owned subsidiary of CLSA Americas Holdings, Inc., which is ultimately owned by CITIC Securities Co., Ltd. (SHA: 600030) in China. CLSA Americas offers a full suite of execution services throughout North America and Latin America.

Kellwood Co. LLC designs, manufactures and markets clothing apparel and accessories. It operates through the following brands: Jolt, Rewind, My Michelle, My Michelle Girls, and Democracy. Its products include casual wear, jeans, jackets, dresses, swimwear, and sportswear. The company was founded in 1961 and is headquartered in City of Industry, CA.

Trigr Therapeutics, Inc. engages in pharmaceuticals industry group. The company is headquartered in Irvine, CA.

Lipomedix Pharmaceuticals Ltd. engages in the development of cancer therapy based on liposome delivery. It offers Promitil®, a proprietary formulation of a lipid-based pro-drug of MMC (MLP) which enables efficient delivery and release of active MMC to tumors in vivo. The company was founded by Alberto Gabizon and Rami Kremien and is headquartered in Jerusalem, Israel.

Part of Ernst & Young Global Ltd., Ernst & Young (Israel) Ltd. is an Israeli company that provides accounting services. The company is based in Tel Aviv, Israel.

RP Management LLC provides pharmaceutical royalty liquidity services. It provides liquidity to holders of interests in revenue-producing intellectual property in biopharmaceutical products and finances the clinical development of biopharmaceutical products in exchange for a royalty interest. The firm serves research institutions, inventors, and biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies. The company was founded by Pablo Gerardo Legorreta and Rory B. Riggs in 1996 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

H. C. Wainwright & Co. LLC (H. C. Wainwright) is a full-service broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1868 and is a subsidiary of HCWHC, Inc. H. C. Wainwright delivers industry insights and real-time execution to both public and private small and middle-sized global emerging market companies. With a focus on identifying buyers and sellers in illiquid and difficult to trade equities, the firm specializes in block trading and providing liquidity in these securities with as little market impact as possible.

ROTH Capital Partners LLC is a broker/dealer headquartered in Newport Beach, California. The firm was founded in 2001 and is a subsidiary of CR Financial Holdings, Inc. They offer institutional sales and trading services. Their broad institutional coverage includes investors in North America, Canada, UK, Europe and other international territories.

WANRack LLC provides fiber-based communications networks and related services. The firm specializes in custom built private fiber wide area networks (WANs) for K-12 schools. Its service offerings include E-Rate compliant lit fiber, dark fiber, and special construction solutions. The company was founded by Rob Oyler in 2005 and is headquartered Lenexa, KS.

Founded in 1969, HSBC Securities (U.S.A.) Inc. is an SEC-registered brokerage firm and registered futures commission merchant located in New York City. The firm is a wholly-owned subsidiary of HSBC North America Holdings, Inc. and their ultimate parent is HSBC Holdings Plc. (NYSE: HBC). HSBC Securities (U.S.A.) is a member of FINRA, the NYSE and the SIPC. Their securities and annuity products are provided by registered representatives and insurance agents of HSBC Securities (U.S.A.). In California, HSBC Securities (U.S.A.) conducts insurance business as HSBC Securities Insurance Services. Insurance products are offered through insurance agents of HSBC Insurance Agency (U.S.A.) Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of HSBC Bank U.S.A. NA and an indirectly wholly-owned subsidiary of HSBC Holdings plc. The company also engages in investment banking underwriting, dealing and brokering of debt and equity securities and futures contracts and is a primary dealer in U.S. Government and federal agency securities.

Partners HealthCare Corp. provides patient care, research, teaching and community services. The company is headquartered in Boston, MA.

University of Washington Medical Center provides healthcare services. It offers gynecology, bariatric, obstetrics, radiology, rehabilitation, neurology, gastric, otolaryngology, ankle, radiology and imaging services. The company was founded on March 1, 1945 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA

University of Washington functions as a College/University. The company is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

MLV & Co. Financial LLC provides brokerage services. The private company is based in New York, NY and has subsidiaries in the United States. The CEO of the company is Patrice McNicoll.

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP provides legal services to financial institutions and corporations, government entities, charitable and health care organizations and individual private clients. It was founded in 1792 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Cornell University is an educational institution that offers undergraduate and post graduate programs. It was founded in 1865 and is based in Ithaca, NY.

Part of Kingfisher Metals Corp., Kingfisher Resources Ltd. provides junior natural resource mining services. The company is based in Vancouver, Canada.