Donald A. Buchholz

SWS Group, Inc. is a diversified financial services holding company. The company delivers investment banking, commercial banking and related financial services to individual, corporate and institutional investors, broker/dealers, governmental entities and financial intermediaries. It operates through four segments: Clearing, Retail Brokerage, Institutional Brokerage and Banking. The Clearing segment provides clearing and execution services for general securities broker/dealers, for bank affiliated firms and firms specializing in high volume trading. The Retail Brokerage segment includes retail securities products and services, insurance products and managed accounts and encompasses the activities of its employee registered representatives and independent representatives. The Institutional Brokerage segment serves institutional customers in securities lending, investment banking and public finance, fixed income sales and trading, proprietary trading and agency execution services. The Banking segment offers traditional banking products and services and focuses on small business lending and short-term funding for mortgage bankers. SWS Group was founded by Donald A. Buchholz in 1972 and is headquartered in Dallas, TX.

U.S. Home Systems, Inc. designs, manufactures and installs home improvement products. The company product line includes kitchen cabinet refacing products, bathtub wall liners, and wall surround products for bathroom remodeling. The firm's home improvement products are marketed through direct mail, marriage mail, magazines, and newspaper inserts. The company was founded on March 18, 1980 and is headquartered in Irving, TX.

New York Stock Exchange, Inc. operates securities exchange market. The company offers services to equity and stock market participants like listed companies, individual and institutional investors, and member firms of the stock exchange. It bring together cash equities and derivatives exchange for listings, trading in cash equities, equity and interest rate derivatives, bonds, and the distribution of market data. New York Stock Exchange was founded in 1792 and is headquartered in New York City, NY

Hilltop Securities, Inc. (dba HilltopSecurities) is a broker/dealer firm headquartered in Dallas, Texas. The firm was founded in 1946 as Southwest Securities, Inc. and they a subsidiary of Hilltop Securities Holdings LLC. Hilltop Securities provides a full array of trading and execution services for their clients.

Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. engages in the provision of securities regulation, complementary compliance, and technology-based services. Its services include writing and enforcing rules governing the activities of securities firms with brokers, examining firms for compliance with those rules, fostering market transparency, and educating investors. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. provides financial regulatory services. The non-profit company is based in Washington and has subsidiaries in the United States. The American company was founded by Richard B. Jennings, Vince Means.