Roger Johansson

Veransa Group, Inc. specializes in transforming urban wood and yard waste into valuable commodities on an industrial scale. Veransa is based in the Tampa Bay region of Florida and has subsidiaries in the United States. The American company vertically integrates green waste collection centers with commodities manufacturing facilities to achieve highest-value use, waste-to-organic commodities production. It also processes wood waste into the feedstock for decorative mulch and renewable energy. The company was founded by Marc Owensby, who has been the CEO since incorporation.

Founded in 1997, Pareto Securities, Inc., formerly Nordic Partners, Inc. is a broker/dealer located in New York City. The firm is a joint venture formed by leading Nordic & Baltic brokers, E. Ohman J:or Fondkommission AB in Sweden, Evli Bank Plc in Finland and Pareto AS in Norway. Suprema Securities (part of Evli Group) is their affiliate in the Baltics. Their sales and trading network is based on memberships of the Stockholm Stock Exchange, Helsinki Stock Exchange, Oslo Stock Exchange and Copenhagen Stock Exchange. The firm is a leading provider of stock and bond brokerage and financial advisory services, focusing on sectors where Norway has particular advantages. Pareto Securities' New York office provides a wide array of trading and execution services for their clients. They do not provide any internal research.