Joseph M. Mecane

Founded by Chet Paulson in 1978, Paulson Investment Co., Inc. is an independent brokerage firm and investment banking firm located in headquartered in Portland, Oregon. They are a Paulson Capital Corp. (NASDAQ: PLCC). Paulson Investment Co. provides a full array of trading and execution services for their clients. They do not provide any internal research. The firm is a member of FINRA/SIPC.

FinlogiK, Inc. engages in the development and provision pf financial software solutions. It offers investment engineering, data analysis, and self-directed investing. The company was founded on January 31, 2008 and is headquartered in Montreal, Canada.

A subsidiary of Mesirow Financial Holdings, Inc., Mesirow Financial, Inc. is a broker/dealer headquartered in Chicago with an additional office in New York City. The firm provides a full array of trading and execution services for their clients. They do not provide any internal research. Mesirow was founded in 1937 by Norman Mesirow.

Easdaq NV is engaged in the operation of a pan-European market. The firm trades under the name Equiduct. The company was founded by Jos Peeters on September 30, 1996 and is headquartered in Leuven, Belgium.

EPEC Biofuels Holdings, Inc. engages in the production, distribution, and utilization of ethanol. The company was founded in October 9 2008 and is headquartered in Plantation, FL.

Southern Methodist University is a private university near the center of Dallas, SMU offers undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs through seven schools in the humanities and sciences, business, the performing, visual, and communication arts, engineering, education and human development, law, and theology.

Knight Capital Group, Inc. is a global financial services firm, which provides access to the capital markets across multiple asset classes to a broad network of clients, including buy and sell side firms, dealers, brokers, institutions, and corporations. It operates business through four segments: Market Making, Institutional Sales and Trading, Electronic Execution Services and Corporate and Other. The Market Making segment consists of market making in global equities and listed domestic options. It includes client, and to a lesser extent, non-client electronic market making activities in which they operate as a market maker in equity securities. The Institutional Sales and Trading segment includes global equity, exchange traded funds and fixed income sales and trading; reverse mortgage origination and securitization; capital markets; and asset management activities. Its business consists of execution and facilitation equities and fixed income transactions as agent on behalf of institutional clients, and they commit capital on behalf of its clients when needed. The Electronic Execution Services segment offers access via its electronic agency-based platforms to markets and self-directed trading in equities, equity options, fixed income, foreign exchange and futures contracts. The Corporate and Other segment invests in strategic financial services-oriented opportunities, allocates, deploys and monitors all capital, and maintains corporate overhead expenses and all other income and expenses that are not attributable to the other segments. The company was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Jersey City, NJ.

ClearBridge Investments LLC is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in New York City. They are a subsidiary of Legg Mason, Inc., ultimately held by Franklin Resources, Inc. (NYSE: BEN). The firm was founded in 2005 as ClearBridge Advisors, which operated through Citigroup Asset Management NA, and was acquired by Legg Mason that year. They changed their name to ClearBridge Investments LLC in 2012. ClearBridge Investments manages separate accounts for both institutional and retail clients. The firm also acts as adviser or sub-adviser to the ClearBridge Funds which are part of the Legg Mason family of mutual funds.

Advanced Reconnaissance Corp. engages in the research, development, and production of advanced multispectral and hyper spectral sensor systems. Its sensing systems automatically detect hard-to-see objects and concealed threats, and its solutions provide real-time processing and assessment of critical conditions. The firm provides solutions and services to commercial and military customers through its offices in New York and Maryland. The company was founded on February 28, 2012 by Mark Westfield, Sheng-Huei Chang and Joseph J. Jamin and is headquartered in Fishkill, NY.

Part of Business Warrior Corp., Syringex Medical, Inc. holds patents to a retractable needle syringe which it intends to manufacture and market. The company is based in Glen Cove, NY. The company was founded by Kevin H. Kading.

Vela Trading Systems LLC provides electronic trading solutions for the financial industry. It offers market data, feed handling, consolidated feed, terminal usage optimization, market access and order execution services. The company was founded by Srinivasan Ramiah and Dipanjan Chatterjee in 2007 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Vela Trading Systems UK Ltd. wholesales computer, computer peripheral equipment and software. The company was founded on December 19, 2013 and is headquartered in Belfast, the United Kingdom.

Hudson Holding Corp. offers brokerage services. Its operations include institutional sales and making of equity securities, and investment banking. The firm also offers software development and technology services. The company was founded on 1984 and is headquartered in Jersey City, NJ.

Paulson Investment Co. LLC Operates as a secondary financial vehicle. It specializes in private placements and investment banking. The company was founded by Jacqueline M. Paulson in 1970 and is headquartered in Portland, OR.

CFA Institute operates as non-profit organization, which engages in the provision of chartered financial analyst programs. It offers certificate in investment performance measurement program, investment foundations, and scholarship. The company was founded in 1965 and is headquartered in Charlottesville, VA.

Paragon Bank provides state banking services. Its services include personal and business banking, lending center, and online services. It offers deposit products including checking, now, savings and money market accounts, certificate of deposits, and individual retirement account (IRA). The company founded by Robert S. Shaw, Jr. in 2004 and is headquartered in Memphis, TN.