Paul Jay Resnik

Resnik Asset Management Co., Inc. (RAMCO) is an independent wealth management firm headquartered in Yonkers, New York. The firm was founded by Paul Resnik in 1995. RAMCO provides investment advice to individuals, such as their retirement and trust accounts.

Wall Street Research (WSR) is a boutique research firm that provides independent analyst research reports, corporate profiles, and newsletters of selected quality emerging growth companies to the investment community. The firm specializes in the small-cap investment arena, looking for emerging growth companies with strong management, unique or proprietary technology, significant market potential, financial strength, and outstanding long-term earnings growth possibilities. WSR has achieved one of the best track records in the small-cap investment marketplace and is well known for discovering undervalued companies and bringing them to the attention of the investment community. The firm's highly regarded analysts include a number of CFAs and MBAs with expertise in a diverse range of industries. WSR has offices in Los Angeles, CA, and other locations.

RedChip Independent is an investment research firm located in Maitland, Florida. The firm is a division of RedChip Companies, Inc. and their ultimate parent is ProManage, Inc., an advanced software development process management and consulting firm located in Burlingame, Massachusetts. RedChip provides fundamental research on small-cap companies. They seek to identify undervalued and underfollowed small-cap companies that are profitable or near term profitable and have effective management teams, mass appeal, growing sales and improving margins. After considering these factors and looking at expectations implied by the stock's current price, RedChip issues a strong buy, buy, speculative buy, hold or sell rating. The rating combines the firm's projection of the stock's performance, their assessment of the company's financial strength, their confidence in the company's management team and their confidence in their forecast.

Founded in 1986, Merriman Capital, Inc. is an SEC-registered broker/dealer and investment banking firm headquartered in San Francisco. The firm is a subsidiary of Merriman Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: MERR), a financial services firm that focuses on fast-growing companies and their institutional investors. Merriman provides advisory and investment banking, equity research, institutional services, corporate services and venture services primarily to corporate clients. Merriman Capital provides research, brokerage and trading services primarily to institutional clients. The firm offers a full range of specialized and integrated services including: equity research, specialized trade execution, equity capital markets, corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, sales and trading, market making, corporate and venture services, restructurings and strategic advisory services. Merriman Capital employs bottom-up, fundamental analysis of small-cap companies in select industries including clean technology, healthcare, technology and consumer/Internet/media. The firm also has expertise in emerging markets, with emphasis on emerging markets in China. Merriman Capital is known to engage in shareholder activist investment strategies. Merriman Capital is a member of the NASD, the SIPC and FINRA. The firm serves as an introducing broker/dealer for Pershing LLC. They do not hold or maintain funds or securities or provide clearing services for other broker/dealers.

Founded in 2003, Olympia Capital Markets Group is an asset management, investment banking, broker/dealer and investment research firm located in New York City. The firm is a member of FINRA, the SIPC, the MSRB and NASDAQ. The firm clears through Dallas-based Penson Financial Services Inc. Olympia Capital Markets Group provides execution, proprietary research and capital markets insight to institutional, individual and corporate investors. The firm generates fundamental and technical analysis of companies, industries, markets and economies. They employ a top-down approach that seeks to identify the different sectors and industries with the best value and risk/reward opportunities. Olympia Capital Markets Group's equity research analyzes company fundamentals utilizing a range of proprietary tools to identify opportunities in the securities they cover. Quantitative research is integrated with macroeconomic considerations to enhance their clients' own research.

Headquartered in El Dorado Hills, California, J. M. Dutton & Associates is a broker/dealer. The firm offers a full array of investment services with a focus on small-cap public companies. They provide issuer-paid research and widely distribute their research to institutions and individuals, both domestic and international.

In 1915 Charles Edward Merrill founded Merrill Lynch & Co. (NYSE: MER) with Edmund C. Lynch in Baltimore, Maryland. The modern Merrill Lynch was formed in 1940 through mergers with E.A. Pierce & Cassatt and, soon after, Fenner & Beane. In 1973, Merrill Lynch adopted a holding company format, with Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. as the parent and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith as the operating subsidiary. Merrill Lynch Asset Management, Inc. (MLAM) was created as an integral business unit in the Merrill Lynch family in 1976. Fund Asset Management, doing business as Mercury Asset Management, was acquired in December 1997. In 2000, MLAM and Mercury were combined under the name Merrill Lynch Investment Managers. MLAM manages the Merrill Lynch family of mutual funds, as and acts as sub-advisor to other mutual funds.