Jennifer P. West

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.

Northwest Bancorp, Inc. operates as a bank holding company for Inland Northwest Bank. The company provides commercial bank services, including non-interest bearing demand deposits, money market demand accounts, negotiable order of withdrawal accounts, savings accounts and time deposits. It also engages in complement of commercial and consumer lending activities in its market area, with the main focus on commercial lending. The company was founded on December 10, 1991 and is headquartered in Spokane, WA.

Part of First Interstate BancSystem, Inc. (Montana), Inland Northwest Bank is a state chartered commercial bank based in Spokane, WA. Inland Northwest Bank is a commercial bank that operates under state charter. Russell A. Lee has been the CEO of the company since 2015.

Hill & Knowlton, Inc. engages in the provision of international communications consultancy services. The company was founded in 1927 and is headquartered in New York, NY.