Timothy R. Swift

Cowen & Co. LLC is a SEC-registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2004 and is a subsidiary of Cowen Holdings, Inc., ultimately owned by The Toronto-Dominion Bank (TSE: TD) in Canada. Cowen & Co. offers industry-focused investment banking for growth-oriented companies, domain knowledge-driven research and a sales and trading platform for institutional investors. Their institutional sales and trading business serves both equity and fixed-income clients. Sales and trading execution platform is structured around the following key verticals: (1) healthcare (2) technology, telecommunications and media (TMT) (3) REITs and financials (4) aerospace and defense (5) consumer and (6) alternative energy.

Viking Energy Group, Inc. engages in the acquisition, exploration, development, and production of oil and natural gas properties. It owns and invests in oil and gas assets located in North America in Kansas, Missouri, Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi. The firm operates through the following segments: Power Generation and, Oil and Gas. The Power Generation segment provides custom energy and power solutions to commercial and industrial clients in North America. The Oil and Gas segment is involved in exploration and production with properties in central and southern United States. The company was founded on May 3, 1989 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. is the investment bank and brokerage subsidiary of CFS CF & Co. I Holdings LP, which is owned by Cantor Fitzgerald LP in the US. The firm was founded by Bernie Gerald Cantor and John Fitzgerald in 1945. Headquartered in New York City, Cantor Fitzgerald offers clients a global, multi-asset prime brokerage platform with a focus on the quality middle market.

R. W. Pressprich & Co. (RWP) is an employee-owned institutional broker-dealer headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1909, RWP’s principal focus is to provide fixed-income relative value and market timing research for clients.

Atlantic Equities LLC is an SEC-registered broker/dealer headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut. The firm is a subsidiary of Atlantic Equities LLP, a service agency broker founded in 2001 and located in London. Atlantic Equities provides clients with execution, sales, trading, research and corporate access. The firm offers an execution platform that is free of proprietary trading conflicts and allows asset managers to significantly reduce transaction costs. Their clients include mutual funds, pension funds, insurance companies, long-only asset managers and hedge funds. All research is performed in Atlantic Equities LLP's London office. They cover the following industries: automobiles, banks, industrial goods, food/beverages, insurance, media, P & H goods, retail and telecommunications.

Founded in 1989, CRT Capital Group LLC is an institutional securities research and brokerage firm located in Stamford, Connecticut. The firm focuses on high-yield and convertible debt, capital structure arbitrage, mergers and acquisitions, special situations and distressed securities. CRT trades senior and subordinated bonds, bank debt, trade claims, convertible bonds, equities, real estate loans, tax exempt securities and private placements.