Nicholas C. H. Villiers

Intrawest ULC develops and manages hotels and experiential destination resorts. It has a network of resort mountain resorts including Steamboat Ski and Resort, Winter Park Resort, Mont Tremblant, Blue Mountain, Stratton Mountain and Snowshoe Mountain. It also provides private resort vacation club that offers accommodations and services at Club Intrawest’s nine owned locations throughout North America. The company was founded in 1976 and is headquartered in Denver, CO.

Pengrowth Corp. an oil and gas operating company. The company is headquartered in Calgary, Canada.

Pengrowth Energy Trust's principal activity is to provide directly and indirectly explore for, develop and hold interests in petroleum and natural gas properties, through investments. The company directly and indirectly acquires, owns and manages working interests and royalty interests in oil and natural gas properties. Its activities are financed by issuance of royalty units and interest bearing notes to the Trust and third party debt.

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.

Pengrowth Energy Corp. operates as a Canadian oil and natural gas exploration company. It engages in the development, acquisition, and exploration of oil and natural gas reserves in the provinces of Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan, and Nova Scotia. The company was founded on October 4, 2010 and is headquartered in Calgary, Canada.

RBC Europe Ltd. is a wealth management firm headquartered in London, UK. The firm was founded in 1970 and is a subsidiary of Royal Bank of Canada Holdings UK Ltd., which is owned by Royal Bank of Canada (NYSE, TSE: RY) in Canada. RBC Europe provides wealth management, retirement planning, wealth strategies, annuities, insurance and credit solutions to wealthy clients and their families, and institutional clients.

Middlefield Canadian Income PCC is a closed-end fund, which invests in a diversified portfolio composed of equity income securities and real estate investment trust. Its investment strategy is investing on larger capitalization Canadian and U.S. high yield equities with a focus on companies that pay and grow dividends. The company was founded on May 24, 2006 and is headquartered in St. Helier, the United Kingdom.