Gayle E. Davis

UBS Financial Services, Inc. is a registered investment advisor and wealth management firm headquartered in Weehawken, New Jersey. The firm is a wholly-owned subsidiary of UBS Americas Inc., ultimately held by UBS Group AG (SWX: UBSG; NYSE: UBS) in Switzerland. Founded in 1969, UBS Financial Services provides investment advisory services to individuals, banks, thrift institutions, mutual funds and other investment companies, pension and employee benefit plans, trusts, estates, charities, corporations and other business and government entities.

University of Washington functions as a College/University. The company is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Northwestern University is a private institution founded in 1851 to serve the Northwest Territory, an area that now includes the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and parts of Minnesota. Northwestern has three campuses

Briefing.com, Inc. provides market analysis information for individual and professional investors. It services include stock tracking, news summaries and market commentary. The firm provides content to partners like Charles Schwab, Reuters, MSN, Forbes and Yahoo! Finance. The company was founded in 1992 by Dick Green and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Founded in 1988, Sturdivant & Co., Inc. is a full service brokerage firm located in Mt. Laurel, New Jersey. Sturdivant & Co. The firm's trading department utilizes the latest technologies to provide clients with maximum efficiency and overall execution excellence for both listed and NASDAQ orders. Sturdivant is connected to many of the major FIX order routing networks including Bloomberg, ITG RouteNet, MacGregor, TradeWare and TNS, as well as the major ECNs. With electronic order routing, traders benefit from seamless and efficient connectivity to Sturdivant directly from their existing systems. The firm strives to tap as many sources of liquidity to ensure that their clients' orders are executed as efficiently as possible. For clients who want their orders executed with a Volume Weighted Average Price (VWAP) strategy, Sturdivant's trading systems allow them to enter orders in multiple ways such as slicing the order into the market on a percentage basis, as a percentage of volume, or slicing it into the market at various times during the day. The firm brings their clients closer to the market through their relationship with a premier, independent Direct Access broker allowing them to provide point-of-sale execution and real-time information. Sturdivant is a member of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange. They can execute client orders on all the worldwide exchanges through their relationship with BNY ConvergEx Group and HSBC Securities (USA), Inc.

Founded by Len Zacks in 1978, Zacks Investment Research, Inc. is an SEC-registered broker/dealer and investment research firm headquartered in Chicago, Illinois with an office in Irvine, California. The firm is principally owned by The Greenwood Trust. Zacks makes both short-term and long-term investment recommendations using the following investment styles: aggressive growth, growth/income, momentum, value, technicals and options. Zack Investment Research employs the Zacks Rank, a 100% a peerless stock rating system that is based on a quantitative model that includes the use of four factors including as earnings estimate revisions and earnings surprises. Stocks are classified into five groups, ranging from 'Strong Buy' to 'Strong Sell.' Zacks Rank is completely mathematical and focuses only on the math and whether the math predicts that a stock's price will rise. It is a short-term indicator of stock performance that is effective for 1 to 3 months. The Zacks Recommendation process begins with a new quantitative model that employs the Zacks Rank. The firm then utilizes qualitative insights to develop a unique recommendation based on a 6 month time horizon. Zacks Investment Research provides coverage primarily on the following sectors: (1) manufacturers of electrical components (2) photo optics/lasers (3) HPC computing platforms (4) manufacturers and distributors of textiles (5) information technology (6) independent oil and gas companies involved in the exploration, development and acquisition of crude oil and natural gas (6) providers of docking, manipulator and wafer probing interface products for semiconductor and ATE manufacturers (7) companies that design and manufacture oscilloscopes, serial data analyzers and protocol analyzers to test, measure and analyze electronic signals (8) manufacturers of branded toys, collectibles, hobby or infant products and (9) financial services companies.

Blaylock Beal Van LLC (BBV) is a full service minority-owned investment banking and financial services company headquartered in New York City. The firm was formerly known as Blaylock Robert Van LLC. In 2007, Blaylock Robert Van LLC was formed when Blaylock & Co., an investment bank founded in 1993 by Ronald E. Blaylock, and Robert Van Securities, a financial services firm founded in 1991 by Eric V. Standifer joined forces. In January 2014, Bernard B. Beal, Founder and CEO of M.R. Beal & Co., joined the firm as Chairman, and the firm was renamed Blaylock Beal Van LLC. BBV focuses on the execution of domestic and international equity securities and baskets. Their domestic equity services include listed trading, NASDAQ trading, program trading, direct market access, algorithmic and dark pool access and transition management. Their international equity services include 24 hour global trading, FIX-enabled direct market access and individual stocks and baskets. BBV implements trading strategies globally through a network of brokerage relationships in all European, Latin American and African markets. They specialize in direct execution and step-out trades of international equities. The firm's fixed-income unit focuses on the competitive, cost-effective trading of U.S. Treasury bills, notes, bonds and agency securities.

Painewebber & Co., Inc. provides stock brokerage and asset management services. The private company is based in Los Angeles and has subsidiaries in the United States. The American company was founded by Brent D. Williams.