Robin E. Davis

Founded in 2004 by Stephan Vermut, Aaron Vermut and Charles Brama, Merlin Securities LLC is a broker/dealer located in San Francisco. The firm is a subsidiary of Wells Fargo Securities LLC and their ultimate parent is Wells Fargo & Co. (NYSE: WFC). The firm provides advanced reporting, analytics, trading and operational services to over 400 hedge funds and managed account platforms. Merlin Securities is an introducing broker to J.P. Morgan Clearing Corp., Goldman Sachs Execution and Clearing (GSEC) and National Bank of Canada (NBCN) and is fully integrated with Northern Trust

SDS Capital Group SPC Ltd. is a hedge fund management firm headquartered in Old Greenwich, Connecticut. The firm was founded in 2001 and is a subsidiary of SDS Capital Partners LLC. They offer investment advice to high net-worth individuals and institutional clients.

Banc of America Specialist, Inc. is an SEC-registered broker/dealer located in New York City. The firm is a subsidiary of NB Holdings Corp. Their ultimate parent is Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC). Banc of America Specialist provides securities services on the New York Stock Exchange and assists with IPOs. The firm follows S&P 500 companies in several sectors including financial services, energy, consumer products, retail and telecommunications. Banc of America Specialist was originally founded in 1982 as Quick & Reilly Specialist, ultimately incorporating Conklin, Cahill & Co. and Colin Hockstin & Co. From 1990 until 1995, the firm acquired three prestigious specialist firms: Murphy, Marseilles Smith & Nammack, Stokes Hoyt & Co and Pforzheimer/Drexel Burnham Specialists. In 1995, Quick & Reilly Specialist was renamed JJC Specialist. In 1998, JJC Specialist was purchased by Fleet Boston Financial, which also acquired Merrill Lynch Specialist, and the firm was renamed Fleet Specialist. In 2000, FleetBoston Financial acquired MJ Meehan and merged the operations into Fleet Specialist. In 2004, Bank of America acquired FleetBoston Financial and Fleet Specialist became known as Banc of America Specialist, Inc.

Concept Fund Services LLC provides trade settlement to reconciliation, as well as full financial reporting. It offers mark-to-market statements as well as daily P&L reporting, comparison, analysis, and NAV calculations, inventory management and maintenance, corporate actions processing, market price conformity, independently track daily trading profit and loss, and data integrity and scrubbing. The company was founded by Anthony Gallo and is headquartered in New York, NY.