Benjamin V. Werner

StanCorp Investment Advisers, Inc. (StanCorp) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Portland, Oregon. The firm is wholly owned by StanCorp Financial Group, Inc., which is owned by Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Co. in Japan. StanCorp offers investment management and advisory services to plan sponsors of employer-sponsored retirement plans that have retained Standard Retirement Services, Inc., an affiliated recordkeeper, to provide recordkeeping services for their employer-sponsored retirement plan.

Founded in 1990, Pacific Crest Securities LLC is an independent investment bank and SEC-registered broker/dealer headquartered in Portland, Oregon. The firm is a subsidiary of KeyCorp. (NYSE: KEY). Pacific Crest Securities participates in the following types of business: (1) making inter-dealer markets in corporate securities over-the-counter (2) retailing corporate equity securities over-the-counter (3) underwriting and selling group participant securities (4) retailing mutual funds (5) dealing in U.S. government securities (6) trading securities for their own account and (7) private placements of securities. The firm does not engage in transactions involving commodities, commodity futures or commodity options. Their investment banking activities include providing advisory services related to M&A transactions. Pacific Crest Securities focuses exclusively on the technology sector. They seek to identify emerging trends and provide insight and solutions to institutional investors, venture capitalists and technology companies in North America and Europe. Pacific Crest Securities provides equity research, institutional sales and trading, merger and acquisition advisory services, public company financings, private company financings and corporate services. Within the technology sector, Pacific Crest Securities targets a variety of industries including: (1) government policy regulation (2) clean technology (3) Internet and digital media (4) software and systems (5) communications technologies and (6) semiconductor technologies.