Stephen J. Dondero

Star Mountain Fund Management LLC (Star Mountain) is a private equity firm founded in 2010 by Brett A. Hickey. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Founded in 2003 by Todd Roberts and Brett Hickey, Aegis Capital Group LLC is a venture capital/private equity firm headquartered in New York City with offices in Houston, Texas, Brick, New Jersey and Birmingham, Alabama. They manage the Aegis Texas Venture Fund LP, the Aegis SMB Fund II and the Aegis NY Venture Fund LP.

Founded in 1989, Harris Nesbitt Gerard, formerly Gerard Klauer Mattison, is an investment bank and broker/dealer located in New York City with additional offices in Boston, Chicago and San Francisco. The firm is a division of BMO Capital Markets (United States) and their ultimate parent is the Bank of Montreal (NYSE, TSX: BMO). Their services include US equity research, sales and trading, equity and debt underwriting, corporate lending/project financing, M&A advisory services, merchant banking and cash management services. Harris Nesbitt Gerard's research focuses on the consumer, healthcare and technology sectors.

BMO Capital Markets Corp. (Broker) is the broker/dealer division of BMO Capital Markets Corp., a full-service North American financial services provider headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1998 and is a subsidiary of BMO Financial Corp., which is owned by Bank of Montreal (NYSE, TSX: BMO) in Canada. BMO Capital Markets offers corporate, institutional and government clients access to a variety of products and services including equity and debt underwriting, corporate lending and project financing, merger and acquisitions advisory services, merchant banking, securitization, treasury and market risk management, debt and equity research and institutional sales and trading.