Bryan D. Happ

Founded in 1986, Merriman Capital, Inc. is an SEC-registered broker/dealer and investment banking firm headquartered in San Francisco. The firm is a subsidiary of Merriman Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: MERR), a financial services firm that focuses on fast-growing companies and their institutional investors. Merriman provides advisory and investment banking, equity research, institutional services, corporate services and venture services primarily to corporate clients. Merriman Capital provides research, brokerage and trading services primarily to institutional clients. The firm offers a full range of specialized and integrated services including: equity research, specialized trade execution, equity capital markets, corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, sales and trading, market making, corporate and venture services, restructurings and strategic advisory services. Merriman Capital employs bottom-up, fundamental analysis of small-cap companies in select industries including clean technology, healthcare, technology and consumer/Internet/media. The firm also has expertise in emerging markets, with emphasis on emerging markets in China. Merriman Capital is known to engage in shareholder activist investment strategies. Merriman Capital is a member of the NASD, the SIPC and FINRA. The firm serves as an introducing broker/dealer for Pershing LLC. They do not hold or maintain funds or securities or provide clearing services for other broker/dealers.

Blue Moon Energy Partners LLC is an acquisition vehicle. The private company is based in Boca Raton, FL.

Pine Crest Preparatory School, Inc. is a non profit institution which engages in the provision of educational services. It offers academics, arts, adn athletics from pre-school to colleges. The company was founded by Mae McMillan in 1934 and is headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, FL.

Part of VeriTeQ Corp., VeriTeQ Acquisition Corp. provides radio frequency identification solutions. The company is based in Delray Beach, FL. Scott R. Silverman has been the CEO of the company since 2011. VeriTeQ Acquisition was acquired by VeriTeQ Corp. on July 10, 2013.

C-Bond Systems LLC operates as a nanotechnology company that develops and manufactures C-Bond technology. The firm engages in the implementation of proprietary nanotechnology applications and processes to enhance properties of functionality and sustainability within porous material systems. Its products include NanoShield, C-Bond I and C-Bond II. The company was founded by Bruce Rich, Sergio Moreira and Paul Brogan and is headquartered in Houston, TX.