Michael B. Silver

Crown Financial Group, Inc. provides securities brokerage services. The company performs market-making activities for Nasdaq and OTC securities. It also offers wholesale institutional trading, wealth management, merchant banking, retail brokerage and investment banking services with a focus on issuing debt and equity securities. The company is headquartered in Jersey City, NJ.

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.