Trip S. Chowdhry

FTN Equity Capital Markets Corp., formerly FTN Midwest Securities Corp., is an institutional equity research, sales and trading firm headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio. They provide institutional investors with bottom-up, fundamental research on domestic companies in a broad array of industries including consumer, health care, manufacturing, business services, technology and financial services. The firm is also a full-service investment banking firm offering equity and debt underwriting and mergers and acquisition services. FTN Equity Capital Markets Corp is a registered broker/dealer and a wholly-owned subsidiary of First Tennessee Bank NA, which is owned by First Horizon National Corp. (NYSE: FHN). The firm is a member of the NASD and the SIPC.

CommerceNet develops business forums to facilitate international business-to-business electronic trade, Its portfolio companies include Powerset, CommunityWalk and GigaLogix. The company was founded by Jay M. Tenenbaum, Michael Genesereth, and Jeff Shrager in 1994 and is headquartered in Los Altos, CA.

OOracle Investment Management, Inc. (OIM) is an independent registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut. The firm was founded by Larry N. Feinberg in 1993. OIM provides discretionary investment advisory services to private investment funds. Investors in the Funds consist primarily of institutional investors, high net worth individuals, and family offices.

Legg Mason International Equities (Hong Kong) Ltd. (LMIE) is a subsidiary of LM International Holdings, LP, ultimately owned by Baltimore-based Legg Mason, Inc. (NYSE: LM). The firm is the Hong Kong office of Legg Mason International Equities, which is part of the institutional division of the parent group, and is headquartered in London. Other offices are located in New York, Tokyo, Singapore, Melbourne, Sao Paulo and Warsaw. LMIE was formerly known as Citibank Global Asset Management (Asia) Ltd. and has been managing collective investment schemes and discretionary funds in Hong Kong since 1985. The firm is a specialist investment manager of regional sub-funds for the parent group. They are also the local distributor of the parent company's diverse families of funds (Legg Mason, Royce, Western Asset). Their clients are institutions and private individuals.

Global Equities Research LLC is an independent broker/dealer headquartered in Red Wood City, California. The firm provides fundamental research in global equities, focusing on near-term, mid-term and long-term trends to facilitate stock selection. Their research also tries to capture significant stock moving catalysts, shifts and inflexion points, based either on Business Model, customer Purchasing Behavior or on the Technology Shifts, which may affect certain stocks. Global Equities Research currently focuses on global companies in the areas of: Internet, IT Services and Software.

Sybase, Inc. engages in the development and provision of mobile and wireless software solutions for data integration. The company was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in San Ramon, CA.