Michael King Lam

Blackmont Capital Securities is the broker subsidiary of Blackmont Capital, Inc. They focus on sectors such as energy, metals and minerals, biotechnology and health services, technology and special situations, business trusts and industrials, consumer staples, real estate and hospitality and financial services. Blackmont screens for emerging influences, shifts in market dynamics and changes in corporate fundamentals to identify immediate growth opportunities with the best risk-reward profile

Founded in 2010, CI Capital Markets Inc. is a registered broker/dealer headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. The firm is a subsidiary of CI Financial Corp. (Toronto: CIX.TO). CI Capital Markets consists of the former capital markets group of Blackmont, Inc. The firm offers independent research, specialized trading services and institutional sales. They also provide a full range of services to the investment banking sector including raising capital and providing financial advice for new or expanding ventures. CI Capital Markets' trading desk professionals provide investment ideas and trading services to institutional money managers throughout Canada and the US. They look for superior quality companies with experienced, reputable management teams and favorable risk/reward profiles. CI Capital Markets strategically prices each offering to balance the interests of the issuing company with its new retail and institutional investors. The firm's investment banking professionals focus on leading transactions for Canadian issuers in the mid-size market and they play a supporting role in transactions for larger issuers. They offer clients a complete suite of alternatives when sourcing equity for their public and private ventures, as well as advisory services related to mergers and acquisitions. CI Capital Markets focuses on the following sectors: energy, metals and minerals, real estate, technology, special situations, industrials and financial services. The firm seeks opportunities that have a sustainable competitive advantage over their competition. Companies should have coherent and actionable business plans and clear strategic objectives. CI Capital Markets offers coverage for entrepreneurs and companies at every stage of development including both equity financing and financial advising. Their services include: equity financing services, private placements, bought deals, secondary sales, cross border transactions, fully-marketed offerings, IPOs, financial advisory services, takeover defense preparation, financial restructuring, formal valuations, fairness opinions, sales and divestitures advisory services, buy-side mergers & acquisitions advisory services, sell-side mergers & acquisitions advisory and structured finance vehicles. CI Capital Market's research team focuses on the following sectors: diversified Industries energy, financial services, metals/minerals, real estate and lodging and technology, media and telecommunications (TMT). Their diversified industries research focuses on infrastructure and renewable energy. They look for companies whose operating characteristics are best positioned to generate sustainable competitive advantages and rising free cash flow. Within the energy sector, CI Capital Markets targets companies involved in domestic and international oil and gas exploration and production, oil sands and alternative energy drilling and energy services. Within the financial services sector, they provide coverage on Canada's big six domestic banks and selected niche financial sector players with above-average growth potential. The firm's real estate research coverage focuses on REITs that specialize in investments in hotels, industrial, multi-residential, office, retail and senior living properties. They also follow some undercovered high growth, small-cap and mid-cap REITs and real estate companies. Within the TMT sector, CI Capital Markets focuses on a variety of high-technology sub-sectors including, but not be limited to, information technology services, mobile data, enterprise applications, e-commerce, semiconductors, Internet infrastructure services, software and telecommunications.

Founded in 1989, Research Capital Corp. is a broker/dealer located in Toronto with additional offices in Calgary and Vancouver. The firm focuses on small- to mid-cap growth companies and growth investors. They provide services to private clients, institutional investors and corporations. Their research coverage ranges from technology to natural resources. Research Capital Corp is a member of the CIPF.

Founded in 2000, MGI Securities, Inc., formerly McFarlane Gordon, Inc., is a broker/dealer headquartered in Toronto with an additional office in Calgary. The firm is a subsidiary of Jovian Capital Corp. (TSX: JVN). They provide a range of specialized services for institutional investors and professional private wealth management solutions for individual investors. MGI Securities does not provide any internal research. MGI Securities is a member of the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC) and the Canadian Investor Protection Fund (CIPF). The firm is a participating organization in the Toronto Stock Exchange, the TSX Venture Exchange and the Canadian Trading and Quotation System Inc. (CNQ) through their PURE Trading Facility, Alpha Trading Systems, Omega ATS and Chi-X Canada.

RBC Dominion Securities, Inc. (RBCDS) is a Canadian broker/dealer headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. The firm was founded in 1901 and is a subsidiary of Royal Bank of Canada (TSE, NYSE: RY). RBCDS provides a full spectrum of brokerage services to retail and corporate clients.

Polar Asset Management Partners, Inc. (Polar) is Canadian hedge fund manager headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. The firm was founded by J. Paul Sabourin in 1991 and is a subsidiary of Polar Financial Corp. Polar provides discretionary investment advice and management services to private investment funds, which may be organized as onshore or offshore limited partnerships or corporations, as well as separately managed accounts.

Jemekk Capital Management (2017), Inc. (Jemekk Capital) is a Canadian alternative asset management firm headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. The firm was founded by Gerard J. Ferguson, Rick Ummat and Louis A. de Jong in 2004. They are a subsidiary of J2 Capital Management, Inc. Jemekk Capital offers private investment funds that are available to Canadian accredited investors such as High Net Worth, Fund of Fund and Family offices.