Joel Havard

J.J.B. Hilliard, W.L. Lyons LLC is a broker/dealer headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky. The firm is a subsidiary of HL Financial Services LLC. They provide a full array of investment services. J.J.B. Hilliard specializes in a variety of industries including banks, REITs, technology, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, specialty chemicals, utilities, telecommunications providers, entertainment and leisure. The firm focuses on companies that provide niche products or services not easily duplicated. The companies they recommend must exhibit a combination of attributes including high returns on assets and equity, reliable earnings that are growing and manageable debt. J.J.B. Hilliard also prefers companies that generate excess cash. Through its predecessors, the firm's origins can be traced to 1854. In 1965, J.J.B. Hilliard & Son and W.L. Lyons and Co. combined to become J.J.B. Hilliard, W.L. Lyons. In 1972, Hilliard Lyons exchanged its traditional partnership form of business for a corporation model. Then, in 1998, Hilliard Lyons was acquired by PNC Financial Services GroupI. In 2008, ownership of Hilliard Lyons was transitioned from PNC Financial Services Group to joint ownership by Hilliard Lyons’ own employees and Houchens Industries, Inc. of Bowling Green, Kentucky, a diversified, employee-owned company.

BB&T Securities LLC, doing business as BB&T Capital Markets, is the broker/dealer subsidiary of BB&T Corp. (NYSE: BBT). The firm is headquartered in Richmond, Virginia. They offer a full array of investment, trading and execution services to middle-market companies. BB&T Capital Markets' sales and trading arm is comprised of 2 groups: Debt Securities Sales & Trading and Equity Sales & Trading. The Debt Securities Sales & Trading group focuses on: (1) Government and agency securities (2) corporate bonds (3) municipal bonds (4) asset-backed securities (5) mortgage-backed securities (6) preferred securities and (7) money market desk (short-term securities including BB&T funding). The Equity Sales & Trading group focuses on: (1) institutional block execution services (2) institutional distribution of proprietary research (3) providing proprietary access to industry leading conferences and management teams (4) serving as a NASDAQ market maker for over 250 securities (5) stock buybacks including 10b-18 and 10b5-1 trading plans and (6) 144 stock sales, individual 10b5-1 trading plans (buy and sell) and employee cashless stock option programs. BB&T Capital Markets provides research coverage of the communications, defense and government services, energy, financial services, furnishings and consumer durables, healthcare, industrial services, retail/consumer durables and transportation services sectors.

Established in 1977, Neidiger Tucker Bruner, Inc. (NTB) is a Denver-based brokerage and investment banking firm. NTB offers range of investment banking services include raising capital through the underwriting of Initial public offerings, secondary offerings and private placements. Primary department services include obtaining capital necessary to finance emerging growth and middle-market company's clients on a continuing basis. The corporate finance department seeks to tailor client needs, objectives and financial requirements to appropriate capitalization methods. NTB makes an underwriting commitment when the corporate finance department identifies a company which demonstrates growth potential, has experienced management and a financing can be structured which is equitable and attractive to both the company and investors. The firm is a member of FINRA and SPIC.

Founded in 1989, First Dallas Securities, Inc. is a broker/dealer headquartered in Dallas, Texas. The firm is a subsidiary of First Dallas Holdings, Inc. They focus primarily on common stocks with an eye on bonds and mutual funds. The firm searches the entire US for companies that fit specific criteria, however they place special emphasis on the Southwestern US. Included are core growth companies and emerging companies in various industries. First Dallas Securities examines both high tech and old economy companies that are resurfacing with a solid game plan for new century markets.