Tom R. Carpenter

Camarico Group Ltd. provides investment services. It utilizes joint venture, collaboration, equitable investment, and asset development to enhance the serviceability and profitability of its investments from the construction, supply, grow room, and to the end consumer. The company is headquartered in Nanton, Canada.

J.J.B. Hilliard, W.L. Lyons LLC is a broker/dealer headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky. The firm is a subsidiary of HL Financial Services LLC. They provide a full array of investment services. J.J.B. Hilliard specializes in a variety of industries including banks, REITs, technology, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, specialty chemicals, utilities, telecommunications providers, entertainment and leisure. The firm focuses on companies that provide niche products or services not easily duplicated. The companies they recommend must exhibit a combination of attributes including high returns on assets and equity, reliable earnings that are growing and manageable debt. J.J.B. Hilliard also prefers companies that generate excess cash. Through its predecessors, the firm's origins can be traced to 1854. In 1965, J.J.B. Hilliard & Son and W.L. Lyons and Co. combined to become J.J.B. Hilliard, W.L. Lyons. In 1972, Hilliard Lyons exchanged its traditional partnership form of business for a corporation model. Then, in 1998, Hilliard Lyons was acquired by PNC Financial Services GroupI. In 2008, ownership of Hilliard Lyons was transitioned from PNC Financial Services Group to joint ownership by Hilliard Lyons’ own employees and Houchens Industries, Inc. of Bowling Green, Kentucky, a diversified, employee-owned company.

CIBC World Markets is a full-service investment bank headquartered in New York City. CIBC provides an internationally integrated research product through three primary strategies. In the US, the firm provides research coverage available in areas of focus, including technology, telecommunications, healthcare, energy, power generation and technology, financial institutions, consumer growth, real estate and media. In Canada, the firm offers the full spectrum of coverage for all of the sectors that form the TSE 300 Index. Their broad investment grade analysis of return bond Indices provides daily performance of the Canadian bond market. The sectors covered are: government of Canada bonds, provincial and municipal bonds and corporate bonds rated AAA/AA, A and BBB. Also available is a monthly ABS/MBS market report that provides information on ABS market conditions, market summary data and monthly performance reports on outstanding transactions. This report includes information about the MBS market, including key statistics on MBS spreads and prepayments. Another report contains MBS trading data, cash flows and other key data. A separate monthly Portfolio Valuation Report provides month end pricing for ABS and MBS transactions. Corporate debt research produces highly targeted credit analysis and research for investment grade and high yield debt securities. The corporate bond review covers bond market action, new issues, price/yield movements, rating changes, and buy/sell recommendations. The fixed-income research group produces actionable fundamental and technical analysis, strategies, products, and runs bond indexes and quantitative models relating specifically to fixed income markets, bond portfolios, and individual securities. CIBC provides risk management solutions to corporations, investors, financial institutions, and governments across all asset classes: interest rates, equities, credit, currency, and commodities. CIBC World Markets is a subsidiary of Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce.

The Bank of New York is an investment management division of the Bank of New York Mellon (NYSE: BK)