John Batdorf

Capstone Partners LLC (Private Equity) is a Private Equity firm, a subsidiary of Headwaters MB LLC founded in 2001 by Philip William Seefried and John Ferrara. The firm is headquartered in Denver.

Cowen & Co. LLC is a SEC-registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2004 and is a subsidiary of Cowen Holdings, Inc., ultimately owned by The Toronto-Dominion Bank (TSE: TD) in Canada. Cowen & Co. offers industry-focused investment banking for growth-oriented companies, domain knowledge-driven research and a sales and trading platform for institutional investors. Their institutional sales and trading business serves both equity and fixed-income clients. Sales and trading execution platform is structured around the following key verticals: (1) healthcare (2) technology, telecommunications and media (TMT) (3) REITs and financials (4) aerospace and defense (5) consumer and (6) alternative energy.

Kidder, Peabody & Co., Inc. provides security brokerage services. The private company is based in Buffalo, NY and has subsidiaries in Switzerland. The company was founded by Thomas W. Ostrander.

Viant Group LLC provides investment and financial advisory services. It offers mergers and acquisitions, raising capital, valuation and advisory, and viant green capital. The company was founded by Scott Smith in 1998 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.