Larry Ruud

Cormark Securities Inc. (Cormark) is an independent investment dealer headquartered in Toronto, Canada with additional office in Calgary. The firm was founded in 1981 as Sprott Securities, Inc. Cormark Securities provides execution and comprehensive coverage of Canadian listed companies to domestic and international institutional investors. They focus on Canadian-listed, mid-cap and emerging growth companies.

Founded in 2010 by George Gosbee, AltaCorp Capital Inc. is an institutional financial advisory and brokerage firm headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The firm offers a full spectrum of value-added financial and advisory services to corporations in across various stages of development. Their products and services include corporate mergers and acquisition advisory, equity financings, asset acquisitions and divestitures advisory, institutional sales and trading and institutional equity research. AltaCorp Capital focuses on key drivers of the Western Canadian economy that are global in scope including energy, agri-industry and diversified industries, with overlap into interdependent subsectors. The firm's research includes macro analysis, theme pieces, daily notes, corporate reviews, quarterly and annual overviews and other relevant market/sector issues. AltaCorp Capital's Institutional Sales and Trading team has expertise in both national and global trading markets and are fully integrated within an expansive network of long-standing relationships with institutional clients. They offer execution in trading securities and relevant and timely placing of new offers/issues. The firm also offers execution in institutional block trading and an industry leading technical platform. AltaCorp maintains a strategic relationship with ATB Financial, a full-service financial institution headquartered in Edmonton, Alberta.

Grant Thornton LLP provides accounting, tax and business consulting services. It offers advisory, business consulting, business risk, enterprise technology and innovation, transaction services, data analytics, cyber risk, and data integrity services. The firm serves the construction, real estate and hospitality, consumer and industrial products, energy, financial services, health care and life sciences, not for profit organizations, private equity, public sector, and technology industries. The company was founded in 1924 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

RBC Dominion Securities, Inc. (RBCDS) is a Canadian broker/dealer headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. The firm was founded in 1901 and is a subsidiary of Royal Bank of Canada (TSE, NYSE: RY). RBCDS provides a full spectrum of brokerage services to retail and corporate clients.

KPMG LLP engages in the provision of accounting, tax preparation, and advisory services. It also offers auditing, internal audit, regulatory and compliance, corporate recovery, and forensic accounting, and risk management services. The company was founded in 1869 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Private Capital Markets Association of Canada is a non-profit organization, which engages in the provision of exempt securities market services. It serves the market dealers, market issuers, and industry professional. The company was founded by David S. Brown, Craig Skauge, and Morley W. Salmon in 2002 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Farmacist Advisory Services, Inc. provides financial and management services that are tailored to agriculture and farmers. Its services include succession assessments and farm transfer coaching, business assessments and planning, keynote and workshop speaker, conflict management and mediation. The company was founded in 2006 by Reg Shandro and is headquartered in Lacombe, Canada.

Stifel Nicolaus Canada, Inc. (Stifel Canada) is a Canadian broker-dealer subsidiary of Stifel Financial Corp. (NYSE: SF) in the US. Headquartered in Toronto, Stifel Canada provides institutional sales and trading to corporate clients and institutional investors. The firm also offers a much broader suite of products and services, while remaining the same group of dedicated professionals serving Canadian capital markets.

J.V. Theatre Productions Ltd. operates as a theatre company. The company was founded in 1960 and is headquartered in Calgary, Canada.

Can Partners LLP provides tax preparation and accounting services. The private company is based in Markham, Canada.

New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants is a non-profit organization. It provides a membership program for certified public accountants that offers in-person and online networking opportunities, Continuing Professional Education courses and conferences, the CPA Journal, and other publications. The company was foudned in 1897 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Part of Arizona Lithium Ltd., Prairie Lithium Corp. is a company that owns a lithium project located in the Williston Basin of Canada and the United States. The company is based in Emerald Park, Canada. The Canadian company also has a proprietary lithium extraction process technology that selectively removes lithium from brine. Prairie Lithium's projects hold the highest quality inferred lithium brine resource discovered to date, with 4.1mt LCE total inferred resources at 111 mg/l Li. The company was founded in 2019 by Zach Maurer, who has been the CEO since 2019. Prairie Lithium was acquired by Arizona Lithium Ltd. on March 27, 2023 for $49.97 million.

Centerfire Energy Group provides civil construction, tree clearing & vegetation control, site and facility maintenance services. The private company is based in Anzac, Canada.

Koral Financial, Inc. provides financial and business advisory services. The private company is based in Toronto, Canada. The Canadian company was founded by Olga Balanovskaya.

Berdon LLP provides accounting, auditing, and bookkeeping services. Its services include assurance, business advisory, mergers and acquisitions, claims administration, fund administration services, internal controls and risk management, international advisory, litigation, valuation and dispute resolution, personal wealth services, state & local taxation and tax & advisory services. The company was founded by David Lawrence Berdon in 1917 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Certified Public Accountants & Advisors provides accounting, auditing and bookkeeping services. It offers professional services to businesses, governmental entities, not-for-profit organizations and individuals. The firm's accounting services include audit and tax services, management consulting, merger and acquisition services, litigation consulting services and business valuation services. The company is headquartered in Naperville, IL.