Andrew Blott

SIR Royalty Income Fund operates as a closed ended mutual fund investment trust. The Fund is a trust governed by the laws of the province of Ontario that receives distribution income from its investment in the SIR Royalty Limited Partnership and interest income from the SIR Loan. It intends to pay distributions to unit holders on a monthly basis. SIR Royalty Income Fund was founded on August 23, 2004 and is headquartered in Burlington, Canada.

Apache Industrial Services, Inc. provides industrial services for petrochemical, industrial and energy sectors. It offers abrasive blasting services, including robotic blasting, mineral abrasive blasting, water washing, water jetting, and high frequency induction stripping, fireproofing services, including epoxy fireproofing, precast, lightweight, reinforced, CUF, and hand-packing, and insulation services, including personnel protection, piping, equipment, and machinery. The company was founded by Douglas B. Lee in 1996 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

CIBC World Markets, Inc. is a full-service Canadian brokerage and investment banking firm headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. The firm was founded in 1961 and is a subsidiary of the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (TSE, NYSE: CM). CIBC World Markets provides alternative investment managers with premier prime brokerage that brings together trade execution, reporting, research and capital introduction with a view to enhancing efficiencies and profitability.

Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, Banc of America Securities (BAS) is the investment banking subsidiary of Bank of America Corp (NYSE: BAC). The firm provides both the domestic and international equity and investment banking markets, and pursues a strategy pioneered by Citigroup that combines corporate lending with investment banking advice and services. They provide high-yield debt underwriting and leveraged finance, in addition to industry coverage groups such as healthcare, media and telecom, financial institutions, real estate and gaming. BAS also does a significant amount of work for Financial Sponsors, or private equity firms, often financing leveraged transactions. Following the strategy of Goldman Sachs, the firm lacks a standalone mergers and acquisitions department, instead employing mergers and acquisitions senior bankers throughout the industry coverage groups. The firm is registered as a broker/dealer with the SEC, is a member of the NYSE, and the NASD. The use of Banc in the BAS's name is indicative of the fact that the company is not a bank, and their deposits and other holdings are not insured by the FDIC.

Credit Suisse Securities (Canada) Inc. is a broker/dealer headquartered in Toronto, Ontario with offices worldwide. The firm is a subsidiary of Credit Suisse Group (NYSE: CS). Their equity research equity group engages in a broad range of activities for investors including sales, trading, financing, prime brokerage and market-making in U.S. and international equity and equity related securities, options, futures, risk management and hedging products. Their activities cover both exchange-traded and over-the-counter traded securities, including American depositary receipts, restricted stocks, equity repurchases, block trade executions, program trading executions, equity derivatives and convertible securities. The fixed-income franchise operates as a single, unified platform that handles all fixed-income cash and derivative products. Products and services range from securitization and liability management transactions to sales and trading and superior research.

Founded in 1999, Borealis Capital Corp. is a private equity firm located in Toronto, Ontario with an additional office in Calgary. The firm is a subsidiary of Perseis Partners Inc

SIR Corp. engages in the operation of a chain of restaurants. The firm owns Scaddabush, Jack Astor?s, Canyon Creek, Alice Fazooli?s, REDS, and Loose Moose. The company was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Burlington, Canada.

Young Presidents'' Organization (Canada) operates as a non-profit organization. It helps young chief executives to engage, learn, and grow. The company was founded on February 13, 2011 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.