Pontus Klingspor

Founded in 1997, Pareto Securities, Inc., formerly Nordic Partners, Inc. is a broker/dealer located in New York City. The firm is a joint venture formed by leading Nordic & Baltic brokers, E. Ohman J:or Fondkommission AB in Sweden, Evli Bank Plc in Finland and Pareto AS in Norway. Suprema Securities (part of Evli Group) is their affiliate in the Baltics. Their sales and trading network is based on memberships of the Stockholm Stock Exchange, Helsinki Stock Exchange, Oslo Stock Exchange and Copenhagen Stock Exchange. The firm is a leading provider of stock and bond brokerage and financial advisory services, focusing on sectors where Norway has particular advantages. Pareto Securities' New York office provides a wide array of trading and execution services for their clients. They do not provide any internal research.

Clarksons Securities AS is the Norwegian brokerage subsidiary of Clarksons Platou AS, itself a subsidiary of Clarkson Plc (LON: CKN) in Great Britain. The firm was founded in 1987 and formerly known as RS Platou Markets AS. Headquartered in Oslo, Clarksons Securities offers their global institutional client base with equity and fixed income sales and trading, equity and credit research, corporate access and Investment Banking services, including advising clients on a range of equity and debt capital markets and M&A transactions.

MH Capital AS operates as an investment firm. The company is headquartered in Oslo, Norway.

Sonoma Supramax AS provides foreign shipping with goods. The private company is based in Oslo, Norway.