Roger J. Engemoen

Penson Worldwide, Inc. is a provider of a broad range of critical securities and futures processing infrastructure products and services to the global financial services industry. Its products and services include securities and futures clearing and execution, financing and cash management technology and other related offerings, and provide tools and services to support trading in multiple markets, asset classes and currencies. Penson Worldwide was founded by Phil A. Pendergraft and Daniel P. Son in 1995 and is headquartered in Dallas, TX.

Founded in 1987, SAMCO Capital Markets, Inc. is a broker/dealer headquartered in Austin, Texas with additional offices in Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, New York City and Edmund, Oklahoma. The firm specializes in serving financial institutions. Their expertise lies in public finance and trading, institutional sales, taxable fixed-income trading, high yield and public funds management. SAMCO provides advisory services to issuers of municipal debt in the Southwest and Southeast U.S. Their traders and underwriters make primary and secondary markets in municipal bonds on a national basis. The firm provides advisory services to issuers of municipal debt in the Southwestern and Southeastern U.S. SAMCO's institutional sales department provides coverage of both tier-one national accounts, regional banks and trust departments. They are a leading distributor in the Southwestern U.S. for bank-qualified new issuances. The firm is active in trading and positioning taxable fixed-income securities, including U.S. Treasuries, Agencies, mortgage backed securities, collateralized mortgage obligations, corporate securities and municipal bonds, including high yield. SAMCO's public funds management group specializes in investment, financial management and banking for public entities such as counties, cities and school districts.

Service Life & Casualty Insurance Co. provides life insurance services. The company is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Part of Service Group, Service Lloyds Insurance Co. is a nationwide privately owned company that specializes in workers' compensation. The company is based in Austin, TX. Service Lloyds is rated A- (Excellent) by AM Best and is known for providing quality workers' compensation products with exceptional support and personal service. The company's approach involves not only providing agents and policyholders with a quality workers' compensation product but also with the support and personal service that makes Service Lloyds a leader in the industry. The company's underwriting, claims, audit, marketing, and loss control staff are all very professional and easy to work with, according to agents who have partnered with Service Lloyds. J. Kelly Gray has been the CEO of the company since 1986.

Nexa Technologies, Inc. provides online and direct access trading solutions. It offers multi-asset direct access trading systems, FIX-compliant order routing, an Order Management System (OMS), comprehensive data and market access to European and North American equity, options and derivatives exchanges and ECNs. The company was founded by Eric Stoop in 1999 and is headquartered in Richardson, TX.