Jason Mandel

RBC Capital Markets LLC is a full-service brokerage and financial services firm headquartered in New York City. They are a direct subsidiary of RBC USA Holdco Corp. and a wholly-owned indirect subsidiary of Royal Bank of Canada (TSE, NYSE: RY). Founded in 2010, the firm is comprised of 3 major business lines: the Private Client Group, the Fixed-Income Group and the Clearing and Execution Services Group. The Private Client Group serves individual investors, while the Fixed-Income Group provides services to institutions, municipalities and non-profit organizations. The Clearing and Execution Services Group is a provider of clearing and execution services to independent brokers/dealers throughout the US. RBC Capital Markets focuses on the following sectors: communications, media, consumer/retail, diversified industries, energy, financial institutions, forest products, healthcare, infrastructure finance, mining & metals, real estate, social infrastructure, technology and the US municipal markets.

Founded in 2009, Chapdelaine Credit Partners (CCP) is a broker/dealer located in New York City. The firm provides a variety of credit products to institutional clients worldwide. Their clients include pension funds, insurance companies, hedge funds and other institutional investors. CCP performs fundamental analysis across all credit asset classes and key industry sectors. The firm's vertically integrated credit platform includes a range of diversified credit products including investment grade, high yield, bank loan, distressed and structured products. CCP focuses on less liquid sectors including: (1) Auction Rate Securities (2) CDOs and other subordinated and preferred securities (3) small-to-large middle market bank loans (4) European credits and (5) Yankee issuers