Alex C. Bean

Plexus Capital LLC (Plexus Capital) is a private equity firm founded in 2005 by Kel Landis. The firm headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Bulldog Media Group, Inc. provides online marketing services. It offers affiliate marketing, email marketing, strategy and consultation, data monetization, consumer targeting, and ROI strategy services. The company was founded by Darin Namken and Todd Knodel in 2000 and is headquartered in Madison, SD.

North Atlantic Ship Repair LLC provides large vessel maintenance, repair and overhaul services. It offers services for domestic, international and government customers. The firm also provides vessel maintenance, repair, overhaul and conversion services. The company was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

BB&T Securities LLC, doing business as BB&T Capital Markets, is the broker/dealer subsidiary of BB&T Corp. (NYSE: BBT). The firm is headquartered in Richmond, Virginia. They offer a full array of investment, trading and execution services to middle-market companies. BB&T Capital Markets' sales and trading arm is comprised of 2 groups: Debt Securities Sales & Trading and Equity Sales & Trading. The Debt Securities Sales & Trading group focuses on: (1) Government and agency securities (2) corporate bonds (3) municipal bonds (4) asset-backed securities (5) mortgage-backed securities (6) preferred securities and (7) money market desk (short-term securities including BB&T funding). The Equity Sales & Trading group focuses on: (1) institutional block execution services (2) institutional distribution of proprietary research (3) providing proprietary access to industry leading conferences and management teams (4) serving as a NASDAQ market maker for over 250 securities (5) stock buybacks including 10b-18 and 10b5-1 trading plans and (6) 144 stock sales, individual 10b5-1 trading plans (buy and sell) and employee cashless stock option programs. BB&T Capital Markets provides research coverage of the communications, defense and government services, energy, financial services, furnishings and consumer durables, healthcare, industrial services, retail/consumer durables and transportation services sectors.