Balaji Gandhi

Press Ganey Associates LLC engages in the development and provision of healthcare performance improvement solutions. The firm offers software suites for hospitals, medical practices, outpatient settings, home-care, and clinics. It provides strategic consulting services and transformational solutions for safety, clinical excellence, patient experience, and workforce and engagement. The company was founded by Irwin Press and Rodney F. Ganey in 1985 and is headquartered in South Bend, IN.

Pacific Growth Equities, Inc. is a research-driven investment bank located headquartered in San Francisco with an additional office in Boston. The firm specializes in technology-based emerging growth companies. They offer investment banking and brokerage services including public equity offerings, private equity offerings and mergers and acquisitions. Pacific Growth focuses on the life sciences, technology, healthcare and consumer growth companies.

Oppenheimer & Co., Inc. (Broker) (Oppenheimer-Broker) is the global full-service brokerage division of Oppenheimer & Co., Inc., an investment boutique headquartered in New York City with additional offices nationwide. Founded in 1975, the firm is owned directly by Viner Finance Inc., an indirect subsidiary of Oppenheimer Holdings Inc. (NYSE: OPY). Oppenheimer-Broker offers a full array of brokerage services to retail, institutional, and corporate clients.

Healthcare Financial Partners, Inc. provides asset-based financing and related services. It provides its services mainly to the healthcare industries which include long term care, hospitals and physician practices. The company was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Chevy Chase, MD.

Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc. (DBSI) is a SEC-registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1971 and is a wholly-owned investment banking and brokerage arm of DB U.S. Financial Markets Holding Corp., ultimately held by Deutsche Bank AG (NYSE: DB, FRA: DBK) in Germany. DBSI provides securities brokerage and investment advisory services to domestic and international private clients and institutions. They are also a primary dealer in US government securities as designated by the Federal Reserve.