Michael E. Marrus

Part of Chardan Capital Markets LLC, The Special Equities Group LLC provides specialized merchant banking and brokerage services for emerging growth companies. Based in New York, NY, the company focuses on U.S.-listed emerging growth public companies, offering strategic advice and efficient funding solutions through their independent fund or discreet capital raising. With over a decade of client relationships and more than 250 transactions closed, The Special Equities Group has cultivated long-term, strategic relationships with co-investors who trust their honest advice and objective evaluations of investment opportunities.

C. E. Unterberg, Towbin is a global investment bank headquartered in New York City with additional offices in California and Israel. The firm provides investment banking, research and investment management services to emerging growth companies and investors in the technology, health care and defense, security and diversified technology sectors. C. E. Unterberg was founded in 1932 by Clarence Unterberg. In 1977, the firm merged with L. F. Rothschild to form L. F. Rothschild, Unterberg, Towbin. In 1990, the firm again became privately owned and independent when Clarence Unterberg's son, Thomas I. Unterberg, re-launched the firm as a full-service investment bank.

Collins Stewart LLC Asset Management is a broker/dealer and asset management division of Collins Stewart PLC. They are headquartered in New York City, with additional offices in San Francisco and Menlo Park, California.

C.E. Unterberg, Towbin Advisors LP (CEUTA) is an affiliate of C.E. Unterberg, Towbin and is a registered investment advisor. Based in New York City, the firm provides services for institutional and high net worth individual investors.

Auria Capital, Inc. provides investment advice. The private company is based in New York, NY and has subsidiaries in the United States. The company was founded by Neil Jonathan Wessan, James N. Chapman, Mike Urban.

Founded in 1986, Merriman Capital, Inc. is an SEC-registered broker/dealer and investment banking firm headquartered in San Francisco. The firm is a subsidiary of Merriman Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: MERR), a financial services firm that focuses on fast-growing companies and their institutional investors. Merriman provides advisory and investment banking, equity research, institutional services, corporate services and venture services primarily to corporate clients. Merriman Capital provides research, brokerage and trading services primarily to institutional clients. The firm offers a full range of specialized and integrated services including: equity research, specialized trade execution, equity capital markets, corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, sales and trading, market making, corporate and venture services, restructurings and strategic advisory services. Merriman Capital employs bottom-up, fundamental analysis of small-cap companies in select industries including clean technology, healthcare, technology and consumer/Internet/media. The firm also has expertise in emerging markets, with emphasis on emerging markets in China. Merriman Capital is known to engage in shareholder activist investment strategies. Merriman Capital is a member of the NASD, the SIPC and FINRA. The firm serves as an introducing broker/dealer for Pershing LLC. They do not hold or maintain funds or securities or provide clearing services for other broker/dealers.

For both individual and institutional customers, Dominick & Dominick Advisors LLC (DDA) offers a range of financial services, including equity and fixed-income management, private equity, hedge funds and structured notes. A division of investment bank Dominick & Dominick, the firm is headquartered in New York City.