Colin Gillis

Canaccord Adams, Inc. is an independent financial services firm and broker/dealer headquartered in Boston with additional offices in New York City, San Francisco, Evanston, Illinois and Houston, Texas. The firm provides research to help clients make informed investment decisions. Their analysts seek to identify opportunities and expose risk with a focus on emerging and small- to mid-cap growth companies. Canaccord Adams focuses on seven sectors, clarifying current events and anticipating market trends in high-quality daily, weekly and monthly research products. The seven sectors they focus on are: metals and mining, energy, technology, life sciences, real estate and gaming, consumer and industrial growth. Canaccord Adams is a subsidiary of Vancouver-based Canaccord Financial, Inc. They are a member of the NASD and the SIPC.

RBC Dominion Securities, Inc. (RBCDS) is a Canadian broker/dealer headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. The firm was founded in 1901 and is a subsidiary of Royal Bank of Canada (TSE, NYSE: RY). RBCDS provides a full spectrum of brokerage services to retail and corporate clients.

Ricoh Americas Corp. manufactures and markets office equipment and electronic devices. It offers printers, facsimile, digital duplicators, projectors, unified communication system, software and accessories. The company was founded on December 13, 1962 and is headquartered in West Caldwell, NJ.

Brooktrout, Inc. was engaged in the development, manufacture and sale of software and hardware products that enable the development of communications systems and services. The company offered various products including fax platforms, enterprise voice platforms, carrier enhanced services platforms and application programming interfaces. It supplied products for media processing, network interface, call control and signal processing including protocols that allowed Internet and traditional telephony systems to communicate. The company was located in Needham, MA.

TheStreet, Inc. engages in the provision of financial news and information to investors and institutions worldwide. It operates through the following segments: TheDeal/BoardEx, RateWatch, and Business to Consumer. The TheDeal/BoardEx segment are based of proprietary and commercial systems developed for consumption by institutional clients. The RateWatch segment maintains a constantly-updated database of deposit, loan, and fee rate data from financial institutions using proprietary software and commercial software both internally and within the Amazon Web Services environment. The Business to Consumer segment is led by the namesake website of the company, and includes free content and houses its premium subscription products which targets varying segments of the retail investing public. The company was founded by James J. Cramer and Martin Peretz in 1996 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Founded by Louis Miscioscia, Brigantine Advisors is an independent equity research firm located in New York City. The firm seeks to provide timely analysis of market trends by identifying major technology shifts. Within the macro environment, they seek to identify profitable investment opportunities with a focus on both the financial and technical capabilities of the companies they analyze. Brigantine Advisors follows the technology, healthcare, information technology services, business services, supply chain, enterprise infrastructure, Internet/entertainment and semiconductors sectors. Within the enterprise infrastructure sector, they focus on storage and managed services, hardware/EMS and communications industries. Within the semiconductors sector, the firm focuses on the analog, solar and communications IC industries. In the area of the Internet and entertainment, most of their research is on the digital media industry and within the healthcare sector, they tend to focus on medical devices.

BGC Financial LP, formerly known as Maxcor Financial, Inc., is a research firm headquartered in New York City. The firm is a subsidiary of BGC Partners, Inc. (NASDAQ: BGCP), a global provider of voice and electronic brokerage services that was founded in 1999. BGC Financial provides a wide range of services, including trade execution, broker-dealer services, clearing, trade compression, post trade, information, and other services to a broad range of financial and non-financial institutions. The firm offers research operations that focus on municipal bonds, high-yield and distressed debt, convertible securities and equities.

Cross Commerce Media, Inc. operates the cross media analytics network. It develops an analytics platform that unifies a company’s multiple data sources in real time, delivering a collective view of both offline and online metrics. The company was founded by Tad Martin, Heidi Messer, and Stephen Messer and is headquartered in New York, NY.