Todd Allen Lee

Polestar Investment Research LLC is a value-driven, independent, sell-side research firm located in San Jose, California. Polestar takes a value-driven approach to sell-side research. They recommend equity investments to mutual funds, institutional investors and hedge funds. The firm creates long-term growth by investing in growing companies for the long term. They strive to generate positive alpha as opposed to typical market strategies based upon meeting or slightly outperforming market returns. Polestar employs a contrarian stock-picking approach involving locating companies with solid business models which they feel are undervalued due to short-term or medium-term uncertainties. About 70% of their recommendations are of undiscovered companies or franchises where the market assigns cheap to reasonable valuations. These stocks are usually recommended hold periods of one to two years or longer. The other 30% of Polestar's recommendations involve turnaround situations. This includes companies where mistakes in management execution may have caused the stock to drop, but catalysts and management actions indicate the situation will soon improve. Recommended hold periods for these situations are generally six months or longer. Polestar researches approximately 80 to 90 companies a year across a range of market caps and industry sectors, both domestically and internationally. Market caps of their recommendations range from $1 billion to $5 billion. Polestar employs discounted cash-flow models to determine a company's market value. They pick approximately 10 to 12 of the companies per year to issue research reports on and to recommend to clients. Most picks involve launching companies with strong business models that have declining stock prices due to some controversy, missed earnings or a change in business model.

Spring Point Capital LLC, formerly Botti Brown Asset Management LLC is a hedge fund manager located in San Francisco. They manage the Spring Point Partners LP, the Spring Point Contra Master Fund LP, the Spring Point Contra Partners LP, the Spring Point Opportunity Master Fund LP and the Spring Point Opportunity Partners LP

Part of SNBNY Holdings Ltd., Alpha Investment Management, Inc. is a hedge fund management company. The company is based in New York, NY. The company was founded by Nicolas Berggruen. Alpha Investment Management was acquired by J. Safra Asset Management Corp. on July 31, 2004.

Drexel Burnham Lambert Real Estate Associates II operates a Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT).

Bear, Stearns & Co., Inc. is a global investment banking, securities trading and brokerage firm located in New York City with additional offices in Dallas, Boston and San Francisco. The firm is a subsidiary Bear Sterns Cos., Inc. (NYSE: BSC). Their equity research team consists of senior analysts located throughout the world. In addition to domestic coverage, they have research teams focusing on Latin America, Asia and Europe. The analysts use a bottom-up approach to stock selection. The Bear Stearns fixed-income research department provides coverage of every sector of the fixed-income universe. The financial analytics and structured transactions group (F.A.S.T) provides investment research, fixed-income portfolio management and analytical systems, trading technology and general financial expertise. The group also provides a broad range of services to financial institutions including asset-liability management, balance sheet restructuring, receivables-based financing analysis, security and portfolio analysis, peer analysis, and historical and real-time market-based information.