Bruce James Roberts

Part of United Community Banks, Inc., FinTrust Brokerage Services LLC is a financial advisory firm based in Greenville, SC. The company's credentialed professionals handle personal, corporate, and institutional planning.

Founded in 1999 by Eric Brachfeld, Ledgemont Capital Group LLC is an investment advisor located in New York City. The firm offers strategic consulting and business development, capital sourcing, recapitalization, and capital structure optimization services to investment companies, banking institutions, pooled investment vehicles and corporations.

Founded in 1994, Williams Capital Group LP is an investment banking firm and broker/dealer located in New York City. The firm serves institutional investors and corporations in the in equity, fixed-income, corporate finance, investment management and private equity markets. Williams Capital provides debt and equity underwriting, secondary market trading, equity research, stock repurchase and corporate finance advisory services. The firm trades and distributes commercial paper and other money market instruments, structured products, corporate debt, government agency notes, and domestic and international equities. The trading desk provides clients with full-service execution for all listed and over-the-counter stocks. Williams Capital Group's clients include small institutional and hedge fund managers, mutual funds, insurance companies and public and private pension funds. The firm's traders provide clients with proprietary research generated by their analytical staff. Williams Capital Group is a member of FINRA and the SIPC.

National Securities Corp., a subsidiary of National Holdings Corp., is an international, full-service, independent brokerage firm with a diverse base of retail and institutional clients. National Securities was founded in 1947 in Seattle, Washington with the goal of providing a full suite of financial products and services to its registered representatives and clients. The firm and their subsidiaries are headquartered in New York City and Seattle and have a multitude of domestic and international offices that provide a broad range of securities brokerage, financial planning, and investment services, as well as corporate finance and investment banking services to corporations and businesses. National Securities' representatives are primarily independent contractors who operate their business with freedom and flexibility in advising their clients. The firm is a member FINRA/SIPC.

UBS Americas, Inc. provides investment advice services. It offers wealth, asset management and investment banking services. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Stamford, CT.

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.

Founded in 1995, Kaufman Bros. LP is a broker/dealer headquartered in New York City with an additional office in San Francisco. The firm is a member of the NASD, the SIPC and FINRA. Kaufman Bros. provides investment banking, equity research and institutional sales and trading. The firm provides fundamental research on the following sectors: (1) cable, satellite and interactive media (2) communications equipment (3) digital media software (4) green technology (5) information technology hardware and storage (6) information technology services and software (7) semiconductors and (8) telecommunications & data services.