Robert G. Richards

Stefanini, Inc. engages in the provision of information technology and business process outsourcing support services. It offers workplace infrastructure, advisory services, application services, staffing, and digital solutions. The company was founded by Marco Stefanini in 1987 and is headquartered in Southfield, MI.

Reinhold Industries, Inc. manufactures lightweight, corrosion resistant and durable structural composite components and assemblies. It also offers mission-critical composite components and metallic assemblies for the commercial aviation and defense and space markets. The company was founded in 1928 and is headquartered in Santa Fe Springs, CA.

Universal Guardian Holdings, Inc. provides security products and services to mitigate terrorist and security threats. The company was founded on August 31, 1989 and is headquartered in Newport Beach, CA.

Part of NewMarket Corp., American Azide Corp. is a company that manufactures sodium azide products. The company is based in Las Vegas, NV.

Part of NewMarket Corp., AMPAC Farms, Inc. is a company that specializes in custom pharmaceutical manufacturing of active pharmaceutical ingredients and registered intermediates. With over 75 years of experience, AMPAC Farms is based in Las Vegas, NV. The company's product managers act as a liaison between integrated product teams and customers, ensuring accurate production plans that meet timing, quality, and quantity requirements. With nationwide facilities, they have over 158,000 gallons of manufacturing capacity for various production scales, including chromatography, high potency, controlled substances, energetic chemistry, continuous processing, and biocatalysis.

AMPAC Fine Chemicals LLC engages in the manufacture of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) and registered intermediates. It specializes in energetic chemistries, high potency APIs, chromatographic separations, continuous processing, and specialized chemical capabilities. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Rancho Cordova, CA.

AMPAC-ISP Corp. manufactures and supplies liquid rocket engines and propulsion systems for commercial and military satellites. It offers bipropepellant, monopropellant thrusters, apogee stage engines, and space propulsion systems. The company is headquartered in Las Vegas, NV.

Griffin Fund invests in companies located in United States. The fund focuses on a broad range of sectors and industries. It provide financing for growth transactions.

University of Southern California is a private research university that mainly offers undergraduate, graduate & other higher education. The university was founded in 1880 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

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.

Part of USA Recycling Industries, Inc., Silicon Film Technologies, Inc. manufactures crystalline silicon film for photography. The company is based in Irvine, CA. Silicon Film Technologies was acquired by USA Recycling Industries, Inc. on February 16, 2004.

Robert W. Baird & Co., Inc. (Private Banking) (RWBCI) is the wealth management division of Robert W. Baird & Co., Inc., an employee-owned capital markets, asset management and private equity firm headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The firm was founded in 1919 and is a subsidiary of Baird Financial Corp., ultimately held by Baird Financial Group, Inc. RWBCI offers investment management services to all types of current or prospective clients, which include, but not limited to: individuals, trusts, estates, Retirement Accounts, pension and profit-sharing plans, charitable organizations, and corporations or other business entities.

Griffin Partners LLC (Griffin Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 2008 by Chester Patchen White and Robert Michael Platek. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Wells Fargo Securities LLC (WFS) is the broker/dealer subsidiary of EVEREN Capital Corp., ultimately owned by Wells Fargo & Co. (NYSE: WFC). Headquartered in New York, WFS delivers a comprehensive suite of banking, capital markets and advisory solutions, such as a full complement of sales, trading and research capabilities, to corporate, government and institutional clients.