Douglas Ashton

Bear, Stearns & Co., Inc. is a global investment banking, securities trading and brokerage firm located in New York City with additional offices in Dallas, Boston and San Francisco. The firm is a subsidiary Bear Sterns Cos., Inc. (NYSE: BSC). Their equity research team consists of senior analysts located throughout the world. In addition to domestic coverage, they have research teams focusing on Latin America, Asia and Europe. The analysts use a bottom-up approach to stock selection. The Bear Stearns fixed-income research department provides coverage of every sector of the fixed-income universe. The financial analytics and structured transactions group (F.A.S.T) provides investment research, fixed-income portfolio management and analytical systems, trading technology and general financial expertise. The group also provides a broad range of services to financial institutions including asset-liability management, balance sheet restructuring, receivables-based financing analysis, security and portfolio analysis, peer analysis, and historical and real-time market-based information.

FTN Equity Capital Markets Corp., formerly FTN Midwest Securities Corp., is an institutional equity research, sales and trading firm headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio. They provide institutional investors with bottom-up, fundamental research on domestic companies in a broad array of industries including consumer, health care, manufacturing, business services, technology and financial services. The firm is also a full-service investment banking firm offering equity and debt underwriting and mergers and acquisition services. FTN Equity Capital Markets Corp is a registered broker/dealer and a wholly-owned subsidiary of First Tennessee Bank NA, which is owned by First Horizon National Corp. (NYSE: FHN). The firm is a member of the NASD and the SIPC.

OpenExchange, Inc. provides community based video service for financial and investor relations community. The firm offers B2B video collaboration and is a online community for investor communications. Its easy?to?use, secure interface enables public companies, investment banks and asset managers to find each other schedule and attend video meetings. The company was founded by Douglas Ashton in 2009 and is headquartered in Riverside, CT.

Jefferies LLC is a global investment bank and institutional securities firm headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1962 and is a subsidiary of Jefferies Group LLC, ultimately held by Jefferies Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: JEF). Jefferies provides corporate clients with research and execution services in equity, fixed income, and foreign exchange markets, as well as a full range of investment banking services such as underwriting, mergers and acquisitions, restructuring and recapitalization, and other advisory services, with all businesses operating in the Americas, Europe and Asia.

United Country Real Estate, Inc. provides real estate brokerage, auction and marketing services. It specializes in real estate throughout the small cities and towns of rural America. The firm offers creage, small town and country homes, recreational cabins, retirement property, waterfront properties, farms for sale, ranches, vineyards, historic properties, nature havens, hunting and fishing retreats, luxurious estates, mansions, development properties, vacation property, building sites, river and island properties. The company was founded in 1925 and is headquartered in Kansas, MO.

Streamable Learning, Inc. engages in the provision of live educational program. It specializes in interactive resource designed to supplement existing lesson plans and distance learning. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Charleston, SC.