Harry Burns

Founded by Louis Miscioscia, Brigantine Advisors is an independent equity research firm located in New York City. The firm seeks to provide timely analysis of market trends by identifying major technology shifts. Within the macro environment, they seek to identify profitable investment opportunities with a focus on both the financial and technical capabilities of the companies they analyze. Brigantine Advisors follows the technology, healthcare, information technology services, business services, supply chain, enterprise infrastructure, Internet/entertainment and semiconductors sectors. Within the enterprise infrastructure sector, they focus on storage and managed services, hardware/EMS and communications industries. Within the semiconductors sector, the firm focuses on the analog, solar and communications IC industries. In the area of the Internet and entertainment, most of their research is on the digital media industry and within the healthcare sector, they tend to focus on medical devices.

Longbow Research LLC is an independent investment research firm headquartered in Independence, Ohio. The firm was founded by David S. MacGregor in 2003 to provide the institutional equity research market with a high quality, independent product, free from the many conflicts of interest that plague bulge-bracket research. Longbow Research provides insights and research coverage on publicly-traded mid-cap companies in the industrial/basic materials, consumer and technology sectors.

JPMorgan Securities LLC (JPMS) is a securities brokerage firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1985 and is a subsidiary of JPMorgan Broker-Dealer Holdings, Inc., ultimately held by JPMorgan Chase & Co., Inc. (NYSE: JPM). JPMS provides research on fixed income, credit, derivatives, emerging markets, foreign exchange, structured finance, technical analysis and bond indices. Their equity analysts cover equities throughout North America, EMEA, Asia/Pacific and the emerging markets. The firm's fixed income team formulates trading and portfolio recommendations for investors in global bonds and other fixed-income markets based on valuations, analytics and market dynamics.

Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC (Credit Suisse Securities USA) is the broker/dealer division of Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, an investment banking company headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1998 and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Credit Suisse (USA), Inc., ultimately owned by Credit Suisse Group AG (SWX: CSGN) in Switzerland. Credit Suisse Securities USA offers a suite of equities, solutions and credit products and services which includes global securities sales, trading and execution, prime brokerage and comprehensive investment research. Their clients include financial institutions, corporations, governments, institutional investors, such as pension funds and hedge funds, and private individuals around the world.