Charles Nye Ernst

Maltese Capital Management LLC (Maltese Capital) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded by Terry Maltese in 1996. They were formerly known as Sandler O'Neill Asset Management LLC and changed their name to Maltese Capital Management LLC in 2015. Maltese Capital provides investment advisory services on a discretionary basis to client accounts that are private pooled investment vehicles.

Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, Inc. (KBW) is a full-service investment bank and broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1962 and is a subsidiary of Stifel Financial Corp. (NYSE: SF). KBW offers sales and trading in equities securities of financial services companies.

Founded in 2005 by Chad Loweth, Larry Sapanski and Rich Schimel, Diamondback Capital Management LLC is a hedge fund manager located in Stamford, Connecticut with an additional office in New York City. The firm provides investment advisory services on a discretionary basis to collective investment vehicles organized as domestic or foreign private investment partnerships, corporations, companies and/or other entities

Founded by Donald Putnam and Jefffrey Lovell in 1987, Putnam Lovell NBF Securities is a broker/dealer headquartered in New York City with an additional office in Boston. The firm is a subsidiary of Jefferies & Co., Inc. and their ultimate parent is Jefferies Group, Inc. (NYSE: JEF). Putnam Lovell NBF Securities provides a full array of trading and execution services for their clients. Their clients include U.S. and foreign financial institutions, mutual fund companies, private investment firms, broker/dealers, insurance companies, e-Finance companies and banks.

Consector Capital is an independent hedge fund management firm founded in 2008 by William Black, Jr. Headquartered in New York City, the firm provides discretionary investment management services privately to pooled investment vehicles via a master-feeder arrangement.

Blue Hill Capital Management LLC is an independent hedge fund manager headquartered in New York City. Founded in 2013, the firm provides investment advice to high net worth clients.