Ira Z. Leiderman

Located in New York City, Punk, Ziegel & Co. is a specialty investment bank providing a full range of research, equity market making and corporate finance services focusing on high growth sectors within the healthcare technology, biotechnology and life sciences industries. Punk, Ziegel's, in-depth securities analysis begins with the identification of high-growth industries and timely investment ideas before they have been fully exploited by the investment community. Within these industry niches, their analysts pinpoint companies offering leadership potential and maximum investment opportunities. Issue-oriented, in-depth analysis is then generated on a continuing basis to insure that their investment and corporate finance advice remains accurate and up-to-date.

Ladenburg Thalmann & Co., Inc. (Broker) is the broker/dealer division of Ladenburg Thalmann & Co., Inc., ultimately held by Advisor Group Holdings, Inc. Headquartered in New York City, the firm was founded in 1876 and offers a full suite of capital markets products and services, including proprietary equity research and a fixed-income trading desk. For institutional asset management clients, the firm provides liquidity, execution, high-quality idea-generating research, and access to corporate management teams. Their institutional coverage includes relationships with over asset management companies all over the world. To corporate clients, they bring access to investor capital, broad distribution capabilities and financial markets advisory. Ladenburg Thalmann is a leader in financing growing middle-market public companies across various industry verticals, including Healthcare & Life Sciences, Yield-Oriented Securities (BDCs, REITs, MLPs), Energy, Power & Infrastructure, and Telecom, Media & Technology.

Apthera, Inc. develops a pipeline of peptide-based immunotherapies for cancers. It has products in clinical trials aimed at reducing disease recurrence rates for breast, prostate, and pancreatic cancers. The company was founded Robert E. Kennedy, William Gannon, and Joseph Sinkule in July, 2005 and is headquartered in Scottsdale, AZ.

CollPlant Ltd. specializes in the development and commercialization of medical products. It develops and commercialize tissue repair products for orthobiologics and advanced wound care markets. The company was founded by Tsafrir Feigin Yehuda and Oded Shoseyov in 2004 and is headquartered in Ness Ziona, Israel.

Cassel Salpeter & Co. LLC operates as an independent investment banking firm that provides advice services. It offers mergers and acquisitions, valuations, fairness & solvency, re-structuring, advisory services and capital raising services to the banks and commercial finance companies. The company was founded by James S. Cassel and Scott E. Salpeter in 2010 and is headquartered in Miami, FL.