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Mizuho Securities USA LLC is the US-based securities broker/dealer and futures commission merchant arm of Mizuho Americas LLC, ultimately held by Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. (TYO: 8411, NYSE: MFG) in Japan. Headquartered in New York City, the firm was founded in 1994 and provides institutional and corporate clients access to commodity and financial markets around the world. Mizuho Securities USA covers the following industries: Consumer, Energy, Financial Institutions, Financial Sponsors, Healthcare, Industrial & Diversified Industries, Power, Utilities & Infrastructure, Real Estate, and Technology, Media & Telecom (TMT). The firm and their affiliates hold memberships on all major futures and options exchanges worldwide.

Founded in 1984, Noble Financial Capital Markets is a broker/dealer headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida. The firm is a subsidiary of Noble Financial Group, Inc. Noble Financial Capital Markets' sales & trading team provides strategic insight and reliable solutions to nearly 500 of the dominant small-cap money managers in North America. They are members FINRA, SIPC and MSRB. Noble Financial Capital Markets offers a full array of investment services with a particular focus on under-followed, undervalued, out-of-favor small-cap emerging growth companies. Their research coverage universe includes healthcare, business services & software, defense/defense technology, energy, enterprise hardware, and media & entertainment.

Founded in 1991, Collins Stewart LLC is a broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm is a subsidiary of UK-based Collins Stewart Plc. Their research focuses on the aerospace and defense, technology, telecommunications, biotechnology, Internet/software and semiconductors sectors

C. E. Unterberg, Towbin is a global investment bank headquartered in New York City with additional offices in California and Israel. The firm provides investment banking, research and investment management services to emerging growth companies and investors in the technology, health care and defense, security and diversified technology sectors. C. E. Unterberg was founded in 1932 by Clarence Unterberg. In 1977, the firm merged with L. F. Rothschild to form L. F. Rothschild, Unterberg, Towbin. In 1990, the firm again became privately owned and independent when Clarence Unterberg's son, Thomas I. Unterberg, re-launched the firm as a full-service investment bank.

Blaylock & Co., Inc. is a full-service institutional securities firm providing investment banking, capital markets, sales and trading and other related services to large-cap and emerging growth to middle-market corporations and sponsors. Blaylock's Debt Capital Markets group is responsible for soliciting, structuring and executing debt and related product businesses, including new issues of both public and private debt. In both debt and equity, they provide clients with a multi-tiered distribution platform that specializes in Tier II and III investor relationships in addition to large Tier I accounts. The Equity Capital Markets group undertakes the origination, structuring, marketing and pricing of public offerings and private placements of equity and equity-related securities. They also advise institutional clients on financing strategies in the context of merger and acquisition activity and public market restructurings and monetization programs. Blaylock was founded in 1993 by Ronald E. Blaylock and was incorporated as Blaylock & Co. in April 2005. Headquartered in New York City, Blaylock is a member of the NASD and the SIPC.

Credit Agricole Securities (USA), Inc. (Credit Agricole Securities USA) is a full service broker-dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2004 and formerly known as Calyon Securities USA, Inc. and Credit Lyonnais Securities, Inc. They are a subsidiary of Crédit Agricole Global Partners, Inc., which is owned by Rue la Boétie SAS’s Credit Agricole SA (EPA: ACA) in France. Credit Agricole Securities USA provides investors’ customized solutions to ensure they achieve their execution objectives in the tradition of service excellence and product innovation.