Paul S. Mears

Claire's Stores, Inc. engages in the retail of jewelry and accessories under the Claires and Icing brands. It operates through the North America and Europe segment. The company was founded in 1961 and is headquartered in Pembroke Pines, FL.

Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc. engages in the provision of securities underwriting and investment services. The company is headquartered in New York, NY.

P.F. Chang's China Bistro, Inc. owns and operates a chain of upscale-casual dining restaurants. The company was founded by Paul M. Fleming and Philip Chiang on July 20, 1993 and is headquartered in Scottsdale, AZ.

Tri-Artisan Acquisition Corp. operates as a blank check company. The company intends to complete a merger, or similar business combination, with a company that is engaged in the global consumer products, services, and retail industries. Tri-Artisan Acquisition was founded by Gerald H. Cromack and Rohit Manocha on January 10, 2008 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Claire's, Inc. operates as a specialty retail store. The company was founded on March 19, 2007 and is headquartered in Hoffman Estates, IL.

TGI Friday's, Inc. engages in the operation of restaurants. It offers desserts, pasta and chicken, beverages, appetizers, and salads. The company was founded by Alan Stillman in 1965 and is headquartered in Dallas, TX.

City Cab Company of Orlando LLC provides car taxi services. The company was founded on December 20, 1954 and is headquartered in Orlando, FL.

Newport News Shipbuilding Employees Credit Union operates as a banking company. It offers financial services. The firm provides personal and business banking, loans and mortgage, insurance, investment and retirement services. The company was founded in 1928 and is headquartered in Newport News, VA.

Visit Orlando operates as a tourism sales and marketing organization. It serves Leisure, travel and tourism industries. The company was founded in July 1984 and is headquartered in Orlando, FL.

Virginia Peninsula Foodbank distributes food and grocery products to charitable agencies. The company's service area encompasses the cities of Hampton, Newport News, Poquoson and Williamsburg and the counties of Gloucester, James City, Mathews, Surry and York. Virginia Peninsula Foodbank was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Hampton, VA.

Morgan Joseph TriArtisan Group, Inc. provides investment banking services. The private company is based in New York, NY and has subsidiaries in the United States. The company was founded by John F. Sorte.

Morgan Joseph TriArtisan LLC is an investment and merchant bank engaged in providing financial advice, capital raising and private equity investing. Their services include mergers, acquisitions and restructuring advice and private placements and public offerings of equity and debt. The firm is headquartered in New York City and is a subsidiary of Morgan Joseph TriArtisan Group, Inc. Morgan Joseph TriArtisan was formed in 2010 as the result of a merger between Morgan Joseph & Co. Inc. and TriArtisan Partners LLC. Morgan Joseph TriArtisan is a member of FINRA, the NASD and the SIPC. Morgan Joseph TriArtisan's primary focus is on providing financial advisory and capital raising services in the US, Europe and Asia. This includes mergers and acquisitions advice, restructuring advice, private placements and public offerings of debt and equity. For their institutional clients, Morgan Joseph TriArtisan provides a full range of sales and executions services, including equity research and specialized reports on convertible debt. The firm's sales and trading teams service a variety of institutional clients with both debt and equity investment ideas and trading services. They primarily serve the consumer products, healthcare, automotive, chemical, transportation, construction, entertainment, telecommunications and media industries. Morgan Joseph TriArtisan's debt and equity analysts cover a growing universe of stock and bond issues across a broad range of industry sectors. Their equity research focuses primarily on middle-market companies with limited research and coverage and uses a classic bottom-up qualitative approach. The high-yield department specializes in finding trading opportunities by identifying undervalued and overvalued high-yield debt for institutional clients. They focus on small- to mid-sized issues that are not widely covered and are often mispriced in the market.

Hello! Florida Destination Management, Inc. operates as a destination management company. It offers dining, event design, golf outing, offsite events, show tickets, team building, tours and activities, and transportation. The company was founded by Vic Laxson, Jr. in 2003 and is headquartered in Orlando, FL.

Triartisan Capital Advisors LLC is a private equity subsidary of Cowen Investment Management LLC founded in 2016 by Gerald H Cromack and Rohit Manocha. The firm is headquartered in New York.

TriArtisan ES Partners LLC seeks investment opportunities in companies located in the United States with an EBIDTA of USD 25 - 300 millions. The fund targets companies operating in the fields of retail/consumer, business & professional services, industrial, media and healthcare sectors. It provides financing for spin-offs, carve-outs, roll-ups, recapitalizations, restructurings growth, leveraged buyouts and growth stage capital requirements.