Arnold Ursaner

Bear, Stearns & Co., Inc. is a global investment banking, securities trading and brokerage firm located in New York City with additional offices in Dallas, Boston and San Francisco. The firm is a subsidiary Bear Sterns Cos., Inc. (NYSE: BSC). Their equity research team consists of senior analysts located throughout the world. In addition to domestic coverage, they have research teams focusing on Latin America, Asia and Europe. The analysts use a bottom-up approach to stock selection. The Bear Stearns fixed-income research department provides coverage of every sector of the fixed-income universe. The financial analytics and structured transactions group (F.A.S.T) provides investment research, fixed-income portfolio management and analytical systems, trading technology and general financial expertise. The group also provides a broad range of services to financial institutions including asset-liability management, balance sheet restructuring, receivables-based financing analysis, security and portfolio analysis, peer analysis, and historical and real-time market-based information.

Volt Information Sciences, Inc. engages in the provision of staffing services. It operates through the following segments: North American Staffing, International Staffing, North American MSP, and Corporate and Other. The North American and International Staffing segments provide workforce management expertise such as staffing, direct placement, staffing management, and other employment services. The North American MSP segment consists of managing the procurement and on-boarding of contingent workers. It also offers specialized solutions including managing suppliers and providing sourcing and recruiting support, statement of work management, supplier performance measurement, optimization and analysis, benchmarking of spend demographics and market rate analysis, consolidated customer billing, and supplier payment management. The Corporate and Other segment includes corporate services and remote hire services business in India. The company was founded by Jerome Shaw and William Shaw in 1950 and is headquartered in Orange, CA.

CJS Securities, Inc. is an independent, registered broker-dealer headquartered in White Plains, New York. The firm was founded by Arnold Ursaner in 1998. CJS Securities seeks to identify quality Small-cap companies that may be inefficiently priced in the market due to lack of research coverage, or a material change in the business. The firm actively follows several stocks that span a number of sectors/industries. They are generalists, not "industry analysts," and therefore tend to seek companies that do not typically slot into traditionally "ranked" categories. Their in-depth basic reports are designed for long-term oriented institutional investors.

CSFB Private Equity Partners LLC (CSFB Private Equity) is a private equity subsidiary of Credit Suisse Private Equity LLC founded in 1988. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Friends of Karen, Inc. is a non-profit organization that provides emotional, financial, and advocacy support for children with life-threatening illnesses and their families. The non-profit company is based in Purdys, NY. The organization helps hundreds of ill children and their families every month, at no cost to them. Friends of Karen has received top ratings from Charity Navigator and meets the 20 standards of charity accountability of the BBB of Metropolitan New York.