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Raymond James & Associates, Inc. (RJA) is a registered broker-dealer headquartered in St. Petersburg, Florida. The firm was founded in 1962 and is a subsidiary of Raymond James Financial, Inc. (NYSE: RJF), a diversified holding company. RJA offers a full array of capital markets services, strategic advice and planning for institutional investors.

Founded in 1982 by Mary Ann Greenwood, Greenwood Gearhart, Inc., formerly M.A. Greenwood & Associates, Inc., is a registered investment advisor located in Fayetteville, Arkansas. The firm provides discretionary investment management services for individuals, families, retirees, institutions, foundations, business owners and retirement plan sponsors. Founded in 1992, Greenwood Group Ltd. is an affiliated company that provides qualified retirement plan design and third party administration services for investment clients of Greenwood Gearhart.

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC provides assurance, tax and advisory services. Its services include audit and assurance, consulting, deals, human resources, legal, tax, and family business. The firm also offers accountability, risk management, structuring, mergers and acquisitions, and performance and process improvement. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Buffalo, NY.

BB&T Securities LLC, doing business as BB&T Capital Markets, is the broker/dealer subsidiary of BB&T Corp. (NYSE: BBT). The firm is headquartered in Richmond, Virginia. They offer a full array of investment, trading and execution services to middle-market companies. BB&T Capital Markets' sales and trading arm is comprised of 2 groups: Debt Securities Sales & Trading and Equity Sales & Trading. The Debt Securities Sales & Trading group focuses on: (1) Government and agency securities (2) corporate bonds (3) municipal bonds (4) asset-backed securities (5) mortgage-backed securities (6) preferred securities and (7) money market desk (short-term securities including BB&T funding). The Equity Sales & Trading group focuses on: (1) institutional block execution services (2) institutional distribution of proprietary research (3) providing proprietary access to industry leading conferences and management teams (4) serving as a NASDAQ market maker for over 250 securities (5) stock buybacks including 10b-18 and 10b5-1 trading plans and (6) 144 stock sales, individual 10b5-1 trading plans (buy and sell) and employee cashless stock option programs. BB&T Capital Markets provides research coverage of the communications, defense and government services, energy, financial services, furnishings and consumer durables, healthcare, industrial services, retail/consumer durables and transportation services sectors.

Seaport Global Securities LLC is a full service investment bank, capital markets advisory and research platform headquartered in New York City with offices across the US and in Europe. They are a subsidiary of Seaport Global Holdings LLC. The firm offers access to a broad selection of fixed income and equity products, as well as the market intelligence to provide insight to dynamic opportunities for its clients. Seaport Global Securities provides clients access to innovative trading solutions, competitive rates, quality execution, and superior service. Their equity trading team focuses on identifying liquidity in US, Canadian and European markets. The fixed income distribution platform covers all areas of the credit spectrum.

CFA Institute operates as non-profit organization, which engages in the provision of chartered financial analyst programs. It offers certificate in investment performance measurement program, investment foundations, and scholarship. The company was founded in 1965 and is headquartered in Charlottesville, VA.

Highland Capital Management LP (Highland) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Dallas, Texas. The firm was founded by James (Jim) Dondero and Mark Okada in 1993. They are owned by the Highland Claimant Trust. Highland acts as an investment adviser or sub-adviser to structured product vehicles (which include but not limited to CLOs and Collateralized Debt Obligations unregistered investment funds, and single Client accounts).

Founded in 2002 by Hunter Thompson and William Davis, Thompson Davis & Co. (TD & Co.) is an independent investment research firm and broker/dealer located in Richmond, Virginia with an additional office in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The firm is a member of FINRA and the SIPC. TD & Co. provides unbiased, original research and services to institutional and retail investors. They do not perform research on companies for investment banking opportunities. TD & Co. also offers a full-range of financial services ranging from financial planning and private money management to corporate and municipal bonds. TD & Co.'s research team employs a focused methodology. They seek to identified, under followed, undervalued growth companies. The firm uses computer screens that look for companies with sequential revenue and earnings growth and strong balance sheets that are selling at a discount to their growth rates. Specifically, TD& Co. looks for companies with several characteristics: (1) 20% + revenue and earnings growth (2) sequential revenue and earnings growth, i.e., quarter over quarter improvement in both the top and bottom line (3) top management is buying the company's stock in the open market with their own money (4) significant management ownership of the stock (5) strong balance sheets with little or no debt or manageable declining debt, strong cash position or debt reduction efforts (6) operating in a growing market sector (no deep cyclicals or natural resource sectors) (7) gross margin expansion and market share gains and (8) selling at a discount to the company growth rate, allowing for p/e expansion toward growth rate.

Founded in 1987, Johnson Rice & Co. LLC is an institutional research and brokerage firm located in New Orleans, Louisiana. In 1991, the firm began offering investment banking services. Johnson Rice & Co. focuses primarily on the energy and specialty retail sectors

Washington Regional Medical Center engages in the provision of medical and health care services. It offers oncology, emergency medicine, kidney dialysis, urinary continence management, geriatric psychiatry, hospice, emergency medicine, women's health, cancer treatment, and rehabilitation services. The company was founded in 1950 and is headquartered in Fayetteville, AR.

Blackstreet Capital Management LLC is an Independent Private Equity firm founded in 2002 by Murry Neal Gunty. The firm is headquartered in Bethesda.

Stephens Capital Partners LLC (Stephens Capital Partners) is a private equity subsidiary of SF Holding Corp founded in 1933. The firm is headquartered in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Heartland Business Systems LLC provides technology solutions to corporate, healthcare, education, government, and not-for-profit organizations. It offers consulting and design and technology integration services. The firm's solutions include cloud and hosted solutions, collaboration and UC, document, security, and audio and video solutions, HBS services desk, business software, hardware, and software. The company was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Pewaukee, WI.

Alpha Media Holdings LLC provides security solutions. The company is headquartered in Portland, OR.

Classic Brands LLC designs, manufactures and distributes bird feeders and related birding products. It offers black oil sunflower, dried mealworms, hulled peanuts, sunflower hearts and chips and wild bird blend. The company was founded by Robert W. Donegan in 2010 and is headquartered in Denver, CO.

Champion Optical Network Engineering LLC engages in the design, marketing, and supply of optical networking components for data and telecommunication, healthcare, and government. Its products include network accessories, cabling solutions, and passive solutions. The company was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Cleveland, OH.

A&M Capital Advisors LP (A&M Capital) is a private equity subsidiary of A&M Capital Advisors GP LLC founded in 1983. The firm is headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut.

General Catalyst LLC (General Catalyst) is a venture capital firm founded in 2000 by Joel Cutler, David Fialkow, Bill Fitzgerald, David Orfao and John Simon. The firm is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt Institute operates as a non profit organization that promotes political-oriented programs. Its focus areas include economic inclusion; financialization of higher education; work and labor; finance and wealth; and trade and globalization. The company was founded by William vanden Heuvel and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Gulf Energy Maritime PJSC owns and operates hull tankers designed to carry petroleum products and chemicals. The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

McKinsey & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It specializes in design, marketing and sales, analytics, operations, transformation and restructuring, risk, strategy and corporate finance, and sustainability and resource productivity. The company was founded by James O. McKinsey in 1926 and is headquartered in New York, NY.