Mike Hickey

Founded in 1988 by Richard Messina, the Benchmark Co. LLC is a full-service broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm provides equity research, sales and trading services for institutional and private clients. They focus on the media, energy, enterprise software, infrastructure software, biotechnology, specialty pharmaceuticals, REITs, Internet and communications sectors. The Benchmark Co.'s clearing agent is JP Morgan Clearing Corp.

National Alliance Capital Markets is a broker/dealer located in New York City. They are the institutional broker/dealer division National Allegiance Securities Corp. The firm's team of sales and trading professionals serve the needs of hedge funds, money managers, banks and other lending institutions, trust departments, insurance companies and other institutional investors. They deal in most types of fixed-income securities ranging from U.S. Government and agency debt obligations to corporate securities to taxable and tax-free municipals and equities. National Allegiance also helps arrange private placements of certain fixed-income securities and works with institutions and investors to coordinate these transactions. National Allegiance Capital Markets is primarily a mortgage and asset backed specialty firm. The firm specializes in analyzing, structuring, marketing, and trading the full range of these related securities: (1) mortgage collateral (2) fixed rate collateralized mortgage obligations (CMO) (3) other mortgage derivatives such as inverse floating rate products, interest-only and principal-only strips, investment whole loan securities and RMBS, CMBS and ABS. National Alliance Securities Corp. maintains a clearing arrangement with First Southwest Securities.

Janco Partners, Inc. is a full-service investment banking firm focusing primarily on institutional research. They are located in Greenwood Village, Colorado. Janco focuses their research efforts on companies within the telecommunications industry and on selected companies of special interest. In an effort to be a value added resource to their clients in their investment decision making process, their objective is to identify investment opportunities within their area of expertise, and present well thought out opinions to their clients.