George A. Khouri

Nomura Securities International, Inc. (NSI) is a registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City and was founded in 1969. The firm is a division of Nomura Holding America, Inc. and their ultimate parent is Nomura Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: NMR, TYO: 8604, AMS: 8604). NSI provides securities brokerage services, as well as asset management, domestic retail, global markets, global investment banking and global merchant banking services. The firm's fixed-income business consists of bond sales and trading, origination and product supply for securitization deals and real estate-focused asset finance operations (in cooperation with Investment Banking). In the equity markets, NSI offers sales and trading of domestic and foreign stocks on a global basis, primarily for institutional investors.

Trigon Dom Maklerski SA (Trigon) is an independent broker/dealer headquartered in Warsaw, Poland. Trigon was founded in 1989 and provides brokerage services to individual and institutional clients.

Founded in 1992 by John T. Nabb II, Growth Capital Partners LP is a merchant/investment banking and private equity firm headquartered in Houston, Texas. The firm works with both private and public middle-market companies that are based in North America. Their services include: company sales, private equity, recapitalizations, subordinated debt, MBOs, work-outs, restructurings, senior debt and valuations services

Avalon Group Ltd. provides investment banking, corporate finance and strategic financial advisory services to both public and private companies. It offers services to the manufacturing, retail, distribution, healthcare, media and financial industries. The company was founded in 1992 and headquartered in New York, NY.