Mort A. Cohen

ABAXIS, Inc. engages in the development, manufacture, and marketing of portable blood analysis systems. It operates through the following segments: Medical Market, Veterinary Market, and Other. The Medical Market segment serves a customer group consisting of physicians’ office practices across multiple specialties, urgent care, outpatient and walk-in clinics, health screening operations, home care providers, nursing homes, ambulance companies, oncology treatment clinics, dialysis centers, pharmacies, hospital laboratories, military installations, pharmaceutical clinical trials, and cruise ship lines. The Veterinary Market segment focuses on animal hospitals, animal clinics with mixed practices of small animals, birds and reptiles, equine and bovine practitioners, veterinary emergency clinics, veterinary referral hospitals, universities, government, pharmaceutical companies, biotechnology companies, and private research laboratories. The company was founded by Vladimir E. Ostoich in April 1989 and is headquartered in Union City, CA.

A subsidiary of the Clarion Group, Orbital Management LLC is a hedge fund manager located in Cleveland, Ohio.

Childers Products Co. manufactures adhesives. The private company is based in Willoughby, OH.

Torchlight Investors LLC (Torchlight) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded by Daniel Heflin in 1995 and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Torchlight Holdings LLC, which is owned by Torch Conerly LLC. Torchlight manages commercial real estate related investments (predominately debt investments) for institutional clients.

Clarion Management Ltd. is an independent hedge fund manager headquartered in Beachwood, Ohio. The firm was founded by Morton Cohen in 1994 and they provide investment advice to high net-worth clients.

Bridge Investment Fund (Bridge Fund) is a venture capital firm founded in 2005. The firm is headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio with an additional offices in Tel Aviv, Israel.