Rajiv Sharma

B. Riley Securities, Inc. is a registered broker/dealer headquartered in Los Angeles, California. The firm is a subsidiary of B. Riley Securities Holdings LLC, ultimately owned by B. Riley Financial, Inc. (NASDAQ: RILY). The firm was formed in 2017, when B. Riley Financial, Inc. merged two of their brokers, B. Riley & Co. (founded in 1997) and FBR Capital Markets & Co. (founded in 1989), under the name of B. Riley FBR, Inc. B. Riley Securities provides research and trading ideas to institutional clients and high net-worth individuals. They provide investment banking services to a wide range of middle-market private and public companies.

Polestar Investment Research LLC is a value-driven, independent, sell-side research firm located in San Jose, California. Polestar takes a value-driven approach to sell-side research. They recommend equity investments to mutual funds, institutional investors and hedge funds. The firm creates long-term growth by investing in growing companies for the long term. They strive to generate positive alpha as opposed to typical market strategies based upon meeting or slightly outperforming market returns. Polestar employs a contrarian stock-picking approach involving locating companies with solid business models which they feel are undervalued due to short-term or medium-term uncertainties. About 70% of their recommendations are of undiscovered companies or franchises where the market assigns cheap to reasonable valuations. These stocks are usually recommended hold periods of one to two years or longer. The other 30% of Polestar's recommendations involve turnaround situations. This includes companies where mistakes in management execution may have caused the stock to drop, but catalysts and management actions indicate the situation will soon improve. Recommended hold periods for these situations are generally six months or longer. Polestar researches approximately 80 to 90 companies a year across a range of market caps and industry sectors, both domestically and internationally. Market caps of their recommendations range from $1 billion to $5 billion. Polestar employs discounted cash-flow models to determine a company's market value. They pick approximately 10 to 12 of the companies per year to issue research reports on and to recommend to clients. Most picks involve launching companies with strong business models that have declining stock prices due to some controversy, missed earnings or a change in business model.

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.

Onyx Partners, Inc. provides investment advice. The private company is based in Las Vegas, NV.

Part of SNBNY Holdings Ltd., Alpha Investment Management, Inc. is a hedge fund management company. The company is based in New York, NY. The company was founded by Nicolas Berggruen. Alpha Investment Management was acquired by J. Safra Asset Management Corp. on July 31, 2004.