David A. Jackson

Wedbush Securities, Inc. is a full-service investment bank and brokerage firm headquartered in Los Angeles, California. The firm was founded in 1955 as Wedbush Morgan Securities, Inc. They are a subsidiary of Wedbush Financial Services LLC, which is owned by Wedbush, Inc. Wedbush Securities provides a wide range of securities brokerage, wealth management, and investment banking services to private and institutional clients. Their research focuses on providing coverage of small and mid-sized companies in the following industries: (1) consumer products and services (2) technology (3) entertainment and media (4) life sciences and (5) industrial growth and clean technology.

Camero USA Corp. provides life-saving, search and rescue, military, law enforcement training services. The company was founded in March 2004 and is headquartered in Vienna, VA.

Founded in 1988 by Richard Messina, the Benchmark Co. LLC is a full-service broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm provides equity research, sales and trading services for institutional and private clients. They focus on the media, energy, enterprise software, infrastructure software, biotechnology, specialty pharmaceuticals, REITs, Internet and communications sectors. The Benchmark Co.'s clearing agent is JP Morgan Clearing Corp.

Ladenburg Thalmann & Co., Inc. (Broker) is the broker/dealer division of Ladenburg Thalmann & Co., Inc., ultimately held by Advisor Group Holdings, Inc. Headquartered in New York City, the firm was founded in 1876 and offers a full suite of capital markets products and services, including proprietary equity research and a fixed-income trading desk. For institutional asset management clients, the firm provides liquidity, execution, high-quality idea-generating research, and access to corporate management teams. Their institutional coverage includes relationships with over asset management companies all over the world. To corporate clients, they bring access to investor capital, broad distribution capabilities and financial markets advisory. Ladenburg Thalmann is a leader in financing growing middle-market public companies across various industry verticals, including Healthcare & Life Sciences, Yield-Oriented Securities (BDCs, REITs, MLPs), Energy, Power & Infrastructure, and Telecom, Media & Technology.

OpTier, Inc. provides software as a service application performance management solution. Its patented active context tracking technology captures and tags every business transaction across the entire IT infrastructure, much like FedEx closely tracks packages from origin to destination. The firm's integrated data source that allows businesses to generate instant business value without the need for a data warehouse. The company was founded by Yori Lavi, Amri Alon, Dov Gal, Israel Mazin, Ori Mazin and Motti Tal in 2002 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Sungevity, Inc. provides technology-driven solutions. Its asset-light business model focuses on value-added in-house services for software platform development, project management, and customer experience. The company was founded by Andrew Birch Lu, Daniel Ian Kennedy, and Alexander Guettel in 2007 and is headquartered in Oakland, CA.

Harvest Exchange Corp. engages in the operation and development of online investment publishing platform. Its product – Harvest, is a financial discovery platform that enables asset managers to reach its targeted, investment focused audience — and use behavioral data for client relationships. The company was founded by Peter Hans and Mike Perrone and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Jefferies LLC is a global investment bank and institutional securities firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1962 and is a subsidiary of Jefferies Group LLC, ultimately held by Jefferies Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: JEF). Jefferies provides corporate clients with research and execution services in equity, fixed income, and foreign exchange markets, as well as a full range of investment banking services such as underwriting, mergers and acquisitions, restructuring and recapitalization, and other advisory services, with all businesses operating in the Americas, Europe and Asia.

Duke University is an academic university that offers undergraduate, graduate and professional programs. It also has publications and research services. The university was founded in 1838 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

Harvard University engages in the provision of teaching and research. It has twelve degree-granting Schools in addition to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, offering a global education. The university was founded in 1636 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Barclays Capital, Inc. is a registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1997 and is a subsidiary of Barclays Group US, Inc., ultimately owned by Barclays plc (LON: BARC) in Great Britain. Barclays Capital provides large corporate, government and institutional clients a full spectrum of prime brokerage services which includes equities and fixed income financing, OTC Clearing, Futures and Foreign Exchange Prime Brokerage and access to industry insights and analytics from their Strategic Consulting team.

Syneos Health Consulting, Inc. provides consulting services to pharmaceutical and biotech industries. It is organized into practice areas, each specializing in a critical industry function: brand management, business development, clinical development, managed markets, medical affairs, sales, and trade and distribution. The company was founded by John J. Campbell in 1997 and is headquartered in Morrisville, NC.

Axiad IDS, Inc. provides passwordless orchestration for enterprise and public sector organizations to secure people, machines, and interactions. The company is based in Santa Clara, CA. The company's flagship product, Axaid Cloud, is a comprehensive, secure, and integrated authentication platform that allows customers to move to a passwordless future without the friction and risk of fragmented solutions. Axaid offers unified credential management for all employees' authentication needs, including certificates, mobile MFA, TPM, hardware tokens, smart cards, and biometrics. The company was founded in 2010 by Yves Audebert and Bassam Al-Khalidi, and they have been the CEOs since 2010.

Invictus Growth Management LLC (Invictus Growth) is a private equity firm founded in 2019 by John J. DeLoche and William B. Nettles. The firm is headquartered in San Mateo, California.

Revation Systems, Inc. develops secure unified communication applications. The firm's customers include banks and credit unions, government agencies, large hospital systems, independent healthcare providers, and online retailers. The company was founded by Perry Price and Mark Pietras in 2003 and is headquartered in Bloomington, MN.

Allbound, Inc. offers a cloud-based channel sales and marketing platform that allows organizations to give real-time access to sales enablement, marketing tools, and resources in a mobile-friendly place. It offers Allbound, a cloud-based partner sales acceleration solution that simplifies and accelerates a business?s ability to recruit, onboard, train, measure, and grow indirect sales partners. The firms software enables collaboration among channel vendors and their partners to improve the performance of their indirect sales channels by automating the delivery of marketing content, sales tools, and training at each stage of the pipeline. The company was founded by Scott Salkin and Kyle Burnett in 2014 and is headquartered in Phoenix, AZ.

Pilot Growth Management LLC (Pilot Growth) is a private equity firm founded in 2009 by Rob Walker, Neil Callahan and William Lee. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Invictus Axiad LP is a special purpose vehicle formed to invest in Axiad IDS, Inc.

Balderdash, Inc. provides detailed solutions and resources to researchers. It delivers answers and resources through a trusted network of researchers. The company was founded by Justin Wohlstadter and Michael Kohen in 2012 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

UBS AG (Private Banking UK) is the Great Britain-based private banking division of UBS AG (London Branch), ultimately held by UBS Group AG (NYSE: UBS, SWX: UBSG) in Switzerland. Headquartered in London, the firm was founded 1998 and provides a range of private banking services to high-net worth clients.

Boost Payment Solutions, Inc. engages in electronic payments to eliminate the pain points associated with commercial card acceptance. It offers payment services such as boost intercept, buyer-initiated payments, supplier initiated virtual cards, and optimized interchange rates to healthcare, telecommunications, supply chain, insurance, transportation, real estate, manufacturing, utilities, media and advertising, retail, government, and corporate industries. The company was founded by Dean Leavitt in 2009 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

PanAfrican Investment Co. LLC provides software solutions. It offers applications that leverage data and analytics to find patterns and predict outcomes in order to optimize performance. The firm also provides data integrity and professional services to enable improved use of customers organization's data assets. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Solar Spectrum LLC engages in the provision of technology-driven solar energy solutions to residential and commercial customers. Its asset-light business model focuses on value-added in-house services for software platform development, project management and customer experience. The company is headquartered in Oakland, CA.

Forensic Alpha Ltd. operates an investment research platform that allows users to connect and collaborate with analysts. It caters to institutional asset managers, fund managers, hedge funds and institutions. The company was founded by Thomas Edward Beevers, Sandeep Bathina and Thomas Emil Johann Balk in June 2014 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Golden Section Ventures LLC (GSV) is a venture capital firm founded in 2012 by Dougal Cameron and Isaac Shi. The firm is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

Slovenska sporitelna AS (Broker) (Slovenska sporitelna-Broker) is the broker-dealer division of Slovenska sporitelna AS, a commercial bank headquartered in Bratislava, Slovakia. It is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Erste Group Bank AG (VIE: EBS; OTCMKTS: EBKDY) in Austria. Slovenska sporitelna-Broker a rnage of brokerage services to institutional and business clients.

Wolfe Research LLC is a FINRA-registered sell-side research firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded by Edward Wolfe in 2008 and is a subsidiary of Wolfe Holdco LLC. Wolfe Research provides bespoke research of various stocks in every major GIC sector for institutional clients. The firm has established a reputation for macro research underpinning coverage in Industrials, Utilities/Energy, Consumer/Retail, Financials/REITS, Healthcare and TMT.