Jim LoGerfo

Founded in 2005 by Michael Riedinger and Joseph Berwind, Research Focus LLC is an independent investment research firm located in West Orange, New Jersey. The firm's research focuses on meeting the needs of institutional public and private equity investors in the energy technology and alternative energy sectors.

Tour Engine, Inc. operates as an engineering company that builds internal combustion engine. The company was founded by Oded Tour and Hugo Tour in 2005 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Earthrise Capital Partners LLC (Earthrise Capital Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2007 by Ann Partlow and James LoGerfo Paul. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Helion Energy, Inc. manufactures power generation technology. It develops power plants that would produce electricity by running a nuclear-fusion reaction whereby atoms merge at extremely high temperatures. The company was founded by David Kirtley, John Slough, Chris Pihl and George Votroubek in 2009 and is headquartered in Redmond, WA.

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.