James Barrington Gardner

CenturyTel, Inc., is a provider of high-quality voice, broadband and video services over its advanced communications networks to consumers and businesses in 33 states. It was engaged in an array of communications services, including local and long distance voice, wholesale local network access, high-speed Internet access, other data services and video services. It was founded in 1986 and is headquarted in Monroe, LA.

Founded in 1987, SAMCO Capital Markets, Inc. is a broker/dealer headquartered in Austin, Texas with additional offices in Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, New York City and Edmund, Oklahoma. The firm specializes in serving financial institutions. Their expertise lies in public finance and trading, institutional sales, taxable fixed-income trading, high yield and public funds management. SAMCO provides advisory services to issuers of municipal debt in the Southwest and Southeast U.S. Their traders and underwriters make primary and secondary markets in municipal bonds on a national basis. The firm provides advisory services to issuers of municipal debt in the Southwestern and Southeastern U.S. SAMCO's institutional sales department provides coverage of both tier-one national accounts, regional banks and trust departments. They are a leading distributor in the Southwestern U.S. for bank-qualified new issuances. The firm is active in trading and positioning taxable fixed-income securities, including U.S. Treasuries, Agencies, mortgage backed securities, collateralized mortgage obligations, corporate securities and municipal bonds, including high yield. SAMCO's public funds management group specializes in investment, financial management and banking for public entities such as counties, cities and school districts.

Founded in 2007 by William Gross, Commerce Street Capital LLC is a registered broker/dealer located in Dallas, Texas with an additional office in Duluth, Georgia. The firm is wholly-owned subsidiary of Commerce Street Holdings LLC. Commerce Street Capital specializes in municipal and high-yield corporate bonds.

Service Equity Management LLC (Service Equity Management) is a private equity subsidiary of Commerce Street Capital LLC founded in 2004 by William Dudley Gross. The firm is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

NAB Asset Corp. is a financial services company which engages in the residential lending business and originates, acquires, warehouses and sells residential mortgage loans through its subsidiaries. It has two operating segments Sub Prime Mortage Banking and Prime Mortage Banking. The company was founded in July 1991 and is headquartered in Dallas, TX.

Pacific Southwest Bank is a state commercial bank. The private company is based in Plano, TX.