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Cowen & Co. LLC is a SEC-registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2004 and is a subsidiary of Cowen Holdings, Inc., ultimately owned by The Toronto-Dominion Bank (TSE: TD) in Canada. Cowen & Co. offers industry-focused investment banking for growth-oriented companies, domain knowledge-driven research and a sales and trading platform for institutional investors. Their institutional sales and trading business serves both equity and fixed-income clients. Sales and trading execution platform is structured around the following key verticals: (1) healthcare (2) technology, telecommunications and media (TMT) (3) REITs and financials (4) aerospace and defense (5) consumer and (6) alternative energy.

Bacterin International, Inc. manufactured drug delivery coating platforms for medical devices. It was a tissue bank and medical device company that designs, processes, manufactures, and markets advanced medical products. The firm’s designs focused on efficacy and safety for the patient, and functionality and ease of use for the surgeon to fulfill niche needs in the industry. The company was founded by Guy S. Cook in 1997 and is headquartered in Belgrade, MT.

Founded in 1998, BOK Financial Securities, Inc. is an investment bank and full-service broker/dealer located in Tulsa, Oklahoma with additional offices in Oklahoma City, Dallas, Houston, Scottsdale, Arizona, Little Rock, Arkansas, Overland Park, Kansas, Albuquerque, New Mexico and Salt Lake City, Utah. The firm is a subsidiary of BOK Financial Corp. (NASDAQ: BOKF). BOSC specializes in public and municipal finance and private placements. They offer a variety of taxable and tax-free investment products including tax-exempt municipal bonds, U.S. Government securities, equity investments, mutual funds, tax-deferred annuities, self-directed IRAs, asset allocation programs, separately managed accounts (SMAs), fee-based brokerage accounts and hedging strategies. The firm's clients include individuals, corporations, government agencies, foundations, municipalities and institutions.

Part of Hilltop Holdings, Inc., Momentum Independent Network, Inc. is a company that provides financial services. The company is based in Colleyville, TX. David Edward Geschke has been the CEO of the company since 2015.

Southern Methodist University is a private university near the center of Dallas, SMU offers undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs through seven schools in the humanities and sciences, business, the performing, visual, and communication arts, engineering, education and human development, law, and theology.

KPMG LLP engages in the provision of audit, tax, and advisory services. It serves the banking and capital markets, building, construction and real estate, consumer and retail, energy, natural resources and chemicals, financial services, government and public sector, healthcare and life sciences, industrial manufacturing, insurance, media and entertainment, private equity, technology, telecommunications, and venture capital industries. The company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Leucadia Asset Management LLC (LAM) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2002 as Jefferies Private Client Advisers LLC. They changed their name to Jefferies Investment Advisers LLC in 2006 and to Leucadia Asset Management LLC in 2021. The firm is a wholly owned subsidiary of Jefferies Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: JEF). LAM provides advisory services to high net-worth individuals, trusts, estates, foundations, charitable organizations, corporations and other business entities.

Founded in 2007 by William Gross, Commerce Street Capital LLC is a registered broker/dealer located in Dallas, Texas with an additional office in Duluth, Georgia. The firm is wholly-owned subsidiary of Commerce Street Holdings LLC. Commerce Street Capital specializes in municipal and high-yield corporate bonds.

Service Equity Management LLC (Service Equity Management) is a private equity subsidiary of Commerce Street Capital LLC founded in 2004 by William Dudley Gross. The firm is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

NexBank Capital, Inc. provides banking and financial services. It offers private, commercial, business, and personal banking services. The firm's businesses include commercial real estate, corporate, single family construction, and opportunity financing. The company was founded in 1922 and is headquartered in Dallas, TX.

Kidder, Peabody & Co., Inc. provides security brokerage services. The private company is based in Buffalo, NY and has subsidiaries in Switzerland. The company was founded by Thomas W. Ostrander.

Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. operates as an independent insurance agency. It offers insuring deposits, examining and supervising financial institutions for safety and soundness and consumer protection, making large and complex financial institutions resolvable, and managing receiverships. The company was founded in 1933 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

RBC Capital Markets LLC is a full-service brokerage and financial services firm headquartered in New York City. They are a direct subsidiary of RBC USA Holdco Corp. and a wholly-owned indirect subsidiary of Royal Bank of Canada (TSE, NYSE: RY). Founded in 2010, the firm is comprised of 3 major business lines: the Private Client Group, the Fixed-Income Group and the Clearing and Execution Services Group. The Private Client Group serves individual investors, while the Fixed-Income Group provides services to institutions, municipalities and non-profit organizations. The Clearing and Execution Services Group is a provider of clearing and execution services to independent brokers/dealers throughout the US. RBC Capital Markets focuses on the following sectors: communications, media, consumer/retail, diversified industries, energy, financial institutions, forest products, healthcare, infrastructure finance, mining & metals, real estate, social infrastructure, technology and the US municipal markets.

Greystone & Co., Inc. provides real estate lending, investment and advisory services. It offers mortgage finance solutions across multiple platforms, including FHA, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, USDA, CMBS, bridge, mezzanine and other proprietary loan programs. The company was founded by Stephen Rosenberg in 1988 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

RBC Wealth Management (RBCWM) is wealth management division of RBC Capital Markets Equity Research, which is ultimately owned by Royal Bank of Canada (NYSE; TSE: RY). Formerly known as RBC Dain Rauscher, Inc., the firm was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. RBCWM provides trusted advice and wealth management solutions to individuals, families and institutions.