William Perkins

Crown Financial Group, Inc. provides securities brokerage services. The company performs market-making activities for Nasdaq and OTC securities. It also offers wholesale institutional trading, wealth management, merchant banking, retail brokerage and investment banking services with a focus on issuing debt and equity securities. The company is headquartered in Jersey City, NJ.

Founded in 1985, NatWest Markets Securities, Inc. is a financial services and brokerage firm headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut. The firm is a subsidiary of RBS Holdings USA, Inc. and their ultimate parent is the Royal Bank of Scotland Plc (LSE: RBS). The firm was formerly known as RBS Securities, Inc., RBS Greenwich Capital, and Greenwich Capital Markets, Inc. NatWest is an institutional fixed-income firm that provides a full range of debt capital markets services to both those seeking to raise capital and those seeking to invest it. The firm is an industry leader in the U.S. Treasury, agency and MBS markets and in providing real estate and asset-backed financing to their clients. NatWest also provides futures brokerage services and trade strategies to select clients.

Credit Suisse (USA), Inc. provides investment services. It offers securities underwriting and trading, mergers & acquisitions advice, research, private equity investment & derivative, and risk management services. The company was founded in 1959 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Southpaw Asset Management LP is an independent, SEC- registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut. It was founded in 2005 by Howard Golden and Kevin Wyman. The firm provides discretionary investment advice to privately offered pooled investment vehicles and a separate account mandate.

Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC is a registered broker-dealer subsidiary of Morgan Stanley Domestic Holdings, Inc., ultimately owned by Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) in the US. Headquartered in New York City, the firm was founded in 1987 and provides debt and equity services including underwriting, M&A advice, securities dealing and brokerage and trade execution. Their client base ranges from large global institutional investors to hedge funds at the cutting edge of innovation in the industry.

MacKenzie Partners, Inc. is a full-service proxy solicitation and advisory firm that provides strategic advice to many clients. The private company is based in New York, NY. The firm specializes in contested solicitations, M&A, activism preparedness, stock monitoring, shareholder engagement, tender offers, bondholder consents, restructurings, and other complex shareholder situations. The company was founded by Daniel H. Burch. Daniel H. Burch has been the CEO since incorporation.

Havens Advisors LLC is an independent registered investment advisor and hedge fund management firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1995 by Nancy Havens-Hasty. It provides discretionary investment advice to private funds which is offered to institutional investors and high net worth individuals.

Founded in 1979, GMS Group LLC is a broker/dealer located in Livingston, New Jersey. The firm specializes in tax-free municipal bonds. They provide a full range of investment products and services to meet the investment needs and objectives of high net-worth individuals, corporations, not-for-profit organizations, states, local governments, banks, and insurance companies, among others.

Part of Citigroup, Inc., Citicorp Securities, Inc. provides security brokerage services. The company is based in New York, NY.

SWN Communications, Inc. provides enterprise communications services. The firm offers web-based alert and response services to government agencies, universities, businesses, and non-profit sector. It also provides enterprise communication services. The company was founded by Sanford H. Cohen, Michael J. Sher, Dean Efkarpidis, and Mitchell H. Orlowsky in 2001 and is headquartered in New York, NY.