George van Os

Founded in 1962, Raymond James & Associates, Inc. (RJA) is a broker/dealer headquartered in St. Petersburg, Florida. The firm is a subsidiary of Raymond James Financial, Inc. (NYSE: RJF), a Florida-based diversified holding company that provides financial services to individuals, corporations and municipalities through 3 wholly-owned broker/dealers: Raymond James & Associates, Raymond James Financial Services and Raymond James Ltd. RJA was originally known as Robert A. James Investment, Inc. In 1964, Edward Raymond sold his St. Petersburg-based company, Raymond & Associates, to Robert James. The new company was named Raymond James & Associates.Raymond James is one of the largest research organizations in the brokerage industry and serves institutional investors domestically and abroad. The firm's capital markets activities are based on insightful, timely and comprehensive equity research. They publish research on over 1,000 companies in their core industries. Raymond James seeks attractive niches within broader industries and then covers these sectors deeply to develop differentiated sector expertise and relationships. Although their focus is mid- and small-cap companies, their coverage includes large, medium and small companies across each sector.Raymond James' Institutional Trading division is organized into 3 specialty departments: Sales Trading, Principal trading and Agency Trading. Their Sales Trading division covers over 800 domestic and 1,300 international financial institutions throughout North America and Europe. The firm's Principal Trading division consists of industry-focused teams and their OTC Principal Trading department makes markets in over 680 domestic stocks, 85% of which are covered by Raymond James Institutional Research department. Their Agency Trading department services the trading needs of over 5,500 financial advisors located in 2,500 retail offices across the US.RJA's equity research department focuses on industries in the consumer, energy, financial services, healthcare, industrial growth, real estate, technology and telecommunications sectors. Their fixed-income research and strategy team provides corporate, structured products and analytics, municipal and economic research to individual and institutional investors.

Founded in 1998, UBS Securities LLC, formerly UBS Warburg LLC (U.S.), is an investment bank and registered broker/dealer located New York City. The firm is also a registered futures commission merchant. They are a subsidiary of UBS Americas, Inc. and their ultimate parent is UBS AG (NYSE: UBS). UBS Securities is a member of the NYSE, NASD, SIPC and FINRA.UBS Securities is a primary dealer in U.S. Government securities and provides a full range of investment banking services including corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, trading and sales, fixed-income, equity research, private banking, underwriting and prime brokerage operations. The firm also provides advisory services and access to capital markets for corporate, institutional, intermediary and alternative asset management clients. They offer closed-end fund research, commodity research, credit research, economic research, emerging market research, equity research, fixed-income research, foreign exchange research, real estate research, technical research and thematic research.

Founded in 2003 Credit Suisse USA LLC is a broker/dealer headquartered in New York City with offices worldwide. The firm is a subsidiary of Credit Suisse Group AG (NYSE: CS).The Credit Suisse equity research equity group engages in a broad range of activities for investors including sales, trading, financing, prime brokerage and market-making in US and international equity and equity related securities, options, futures, risk management and hedging products. Their activities cover both exchange-traded and over-the-counter traded securities, including American depository receipts, restricted stocks, equity repurchases, block trade executions, program trading executions, equity derivatives and convertible securities.Their fixed-income franchise operates as a single, unified platform that handles all fixed-income cash and derivative products. Products and services range from securitization and liability management transactions to sales and trading and superior research.