George John Sakellaris

Brown Advisory LLC is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland. The firm is a subsidiary of Brown Advisory Management LLC and their ultimate parent is Brown Advisory, Inc. The firm was founded and launched in 1993 as an investment management division of Alex. Brown & Sons, a Baltimore-based investment bank founded in 1800. In 1998, they became independently owned through an employee-led buyout. Brown Advisory provides investment management services to individuals and institutions.

Founded in 1996, GARP Research Corp. is an independent equity research firm for U.S. mid-cap and small-cap growth companies. Their investment philosophy is focused on growth, quality, and control of risk. They have a long-term orientation, but they also believe short-term results benefit from their discipline of waiting for catalysts to emerge and their ability to identify valid long-term growth drivers. They search for high quality as determined by competitive advantages, and potential or actual high return on capital employed. Companies recommend typically generate cash, grow organically, and are well financed. They control risk by technical analysis of long-term stock charts and proprietary valuation methodology. They typically recommend a stock after it has declined significantly and then based-out over many quarters. They avoid momentum stocks. GARP Research is located in Baltimore, Maryland.

M&T Bank Corp. (NYSE: MTB) is a bank holding company headquartered in Buffalo, New York. Through its wholly-owned subsidiaries, M&T Bank and Wilmington Trust NA, the company offers a wide range of retail and commercial banking, trust, wealth management and investment services to their customers. They serve a diverse base of consumers, businesses, professional clients, governmental entities and financial institutions located in its markets. M&T Bank Corp. company operates through following segments: Business Banking, Commercial Banking, Commercial Real Estate, Discretionary Portfolio, Residential Mortgage Banking and Retail Banking. M&T Bank Corp. Discretionary Portfolio segment manages discretionary accounts for individuals and not-for-profit organizations and also manages a family of mutual funds. The segment includes investment and trading securities, residential mortgage loans and other assets, short-term and long-term borrowed funds, brokered certificates of deposit and interest rate swap agreements related thereto, and Cayman Islands branch deposits. It also provides foreign exchange services to customers.

Founded in 2004 by Tedd Alexander, Credo Capital Management LLC is a registered investment advisor located in Baltimore, Maryland. The firm provides investment products and services for the institutional investor market.