Ryan D. Brown

Quadrangle Group LLC (Quadrangle Group) is a private equity firm founded in 2000. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Davis Selected Advisers LP (David Advisors) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and mutual fund manager headquartered in Tucson, Arizona. Founded in 1969, David Advisors provides discretionary portfolio management services, serves as investment adviser or sub-adviser for registered investment companies (such as the Davis ETFs, Davis Funds, Selected Funds, and Clipper Fund), unregistered investment companies, offshore funds, private accounts and other pooled investment vehicles. The firm also works with sponsors to serve as investment adviser for managed money/wrap account programs.

Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc. (MLPFS) is the SEC-registered broker/dealer subsidiary of Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc., ultimately held by Charlotte-based Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC). The firm was founded in 1958 and is headquartered in New York City. In 2010, Banc of America Securities LLC merged with MLPFS and the firm uses the trade name Bank of America Merrill Lynch. MLPFS's global strategy and economics team serves institutional and individual investors using a wide range of macroeconomic disciplines. Their analysis of global issues provides clients with investment ideas, market forecasts, macro overviews and specific sector recommendations across asset classes, regions and disciplines. Their equity research team conducts fundamental analysis on companies globally and provides institutional and retail clients with industry-specific and in-depth research and analysis on numerous industries. The firm's global fixed-income and equity-linked research focuses on fixed-income and equity derivatives, fixed-income strategy, convertibles, commodities, high-yield, mortgages, municipals and global foreign exchange.