Waheed Hassan

Institutional Shareholder Services, Inc. (ISS) is an investment research firm headquartered in Rockville, Maryland. The firm was founded in 1985 and is owned by Viss Intermediate LLC, which is ultimately held by Deutsche Börse AG (ETR: DB1) in Germany. ISS provides corporate governance and responsible investment solutions globally to other investment advisers, including investment advisers to investment companies, pension and profit-sharing plans, broker-dealers, asset owners, asset managers, banks or thrift institutions, hedge funds, trusts, estates, charitable organizations and other institutional investors, as well as law firms, and universities. The firm also provides data to third parties for use in thematic based indices. Their solutions include objective governance research and recommendations; responsible investment data, analytics, and research; end-to-end proxy voting and distribution solutions; turnkey securities class-action claims management provided by Securities Class Action Services, LLC (ISS SCAS); reliable global governance data and modeling tools; asset management intelligence, portfolio execution and monitoring, fund services, and media.

Founded in 1996, Investrend, Inc. is a research firm headquartered in Forest Hills, New York. The firm specializes in an integrated, interdependent approach, pulling together research, broadcast, forums and information platforms as needed to create a cohesive platform to enhance events, conferences, research, publications and information distributions worldwide with services skewed toward shareholder empowerment.

Spelman Research Associates Ltd. is a research firm headquartered in New York City. The firm offers fundamental research on under-followed growth public companies. Their research coverage allows publicly traded companies bias free three party analyst coverage. Spelman reports and recommendations are used by both institutional and individual investors. The firm provides independent research for public companies without the built in conflicts of interest that permeate the research community in this ever-changing regulatory climate.

Based in New York City, Wasserman Morris is an independent research and strategic consulting firm. Their main focus and competitive niche are small and micro-cap companies that are trading below their fundamental values, mainly due to their obscurity.

Advent Financial, Inc. is an independent equity research firm headquartered in New York City. The firm provides independent research for public companies. They provide independent research coverage for under followed small- and micro-cap companies that have little or no analyst coverage. The firm was founded in 2008.

Alliance Advisors LLC provides investment research services. The private company is based in Bloomfield, NJ and has subsidiaries in the United States. The company was founded by Alan Sheinwald. Joseph Caruso has been the CEO of the company since 2010.