Barry Newman

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.

Odyssey Partners LP is a private investment partnership. The company was founded by Jack Nash and Leon Levy in 1982 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Meru Networks, Inc. designs and develops networking equipment for wireless LAN systems. The company was founded by Nicholas Mitsakos and Vaduvur Bharghavan in January 2002 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Cradle Technologies, Inc. provides video surveillance solutions and equipments. Its products include enVigil RDP, enVigil VMS and enVigil NVS. The company was founded by Satish Chandra Gupta in 1998 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Atrua Technologies, Inc. provides touch controls solutions for mobile phones, handheld games, and personal electronic devices. It offers intelligent fingerprint-reading and analog touch controls which includes joysticks, touch pads, and directional keys. The firm's products are used in various applications such as mobile gaming, computing, mass storage, keyboards, remote controls, embedded biometric security, and consumer electronics devices. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Campbell, CA.

Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, Banc of America Securities (BAS) is the investment banking subsidiary of Bank of America Corp (NYSE: BAC). The firm provides both the domestic and international equity and investment banking markets, and pursues a strategy pioneered by Citigroup that combines corporate lending with investment banking advice and services. They provide high-yield debt underwriting and leveraged finance, in addition to industry coverage groups such as healthcare, media and telecom, financial institutions, real estate and gaming. BAS also does a significant amount of work for Financial Sponsors, or private equity firms, often financing leveraged transactions. Following the strategy of Goldman Sachs, the firm lacks a standalone mergers and acquisitions department, instead employing mergers and acquisitions senior bankers throughout the industry coverage groups. The firm is registered as a broker/dealer with the SEC, is a member of the NYSE, and the NASD. The use of Banc in the BAS's name is indicative of the fact that the company is not a bank, and their deposits and other holdings are not insured by the FDIC.