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Mr. Dwight Badger is a Co-Founder of Advanced Equities Financial Corp. and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Badger Co-Founded Advanced Equities, Inc. in 1999 and served as its Chief Executive Officer until August 2012. Among Mr. Badger's responsibilities for overall strategy, he sources new venture capital investment opportunities and manages the firms overall capital raising efforts. Mr. Badger has played a key role in Banking with some of the largest private rounds of financing in Silicon Valley history. Mr. Badger was a Managing Director of Institutional Sales for LaSalle Street Securities, and Chief Executive Officer of Kress USA. Mr. Badger has played a key role in Banking with some of the largest private rounds of financing in Silicon Valley history. He served as General Partner of Innovative Technology Partners. Mr. Badger serves as Director of MetricStream, Inc. He serves as Member of Advisory Board of Echopass Corporation. He served as Director of Ygnition Networks, Inc.

Timothy C. Scheve is President and Chief Executive Officer of Janney Montgomery Scott LLC. Janney is a full-service financial services firm, providing comprehensive financial advice to individual, corporate and institutional clients. Mr. Scheve became the President and CEO in August 2007 and has over 25 years of experience in the securities industry. Since his arrival at Janney, Mr. Scheve has assembled a leadership team that has a tremendous ability to adapt to rapidly evolving client needs and economic changes. These top professionals lead two core businesses—the Private Client Group and Capital Markets—and ensure efficient operations and administration. The Firm’s financial expertise includes Private Client Financial Advisors, experts in wealth management, and professionals in equity capital markets, research, fixed income and corporate finance. Mr. Scheve has steered Janney’s tremendous growth and leadership by ensuring that the Firm’s professionals provide clients with an exceptional level of service and knowledgeable advice so that they may achieve their personal and business goals. Under his tenure, Janney has grown its client base, successfully expanded existing relationships, opened several new regional offices and become more actively engaged in its communities. All of these accomplishments have helped to solidify Janney as one of the strongest, leading and growing financial services firms in the industry today. Before becoming the President and CEO of Janney, Mr. Scheve served in a variety of leadership roles at Legg Mason where he helped to define the firm’s client focus as well as their overall professional direction. He was appointed Executive Vice President of Legg Mason in 1998 and Senior Executive Vice President in 2000. In 2003, he was named President and CEO of Legg Mason’s broker-dealer, the former Legg Mason Wood Walker, Inc. (LMWW). In this role he managed a division comprised of 1,200 Financial Consultants and 120 offices with approximately $1 billion in revenue. He also managed the Firm’s Capital Markets business, consisting of institutional equity, institutional fixed income and investment banking. After Legg Mason sold LMWW, Mr. Scheve was responsible for the integration of Citigroup’s Asset Management division into Legg Mason’s Asset Management business. During this time, he served as Chief Administrative Officer, culminating a long and distinguished career with the firm in a crucial management position responsible for a diverse spectrum of functional areas, including Finance, Corporate Technology, Operations, Mutual Fund Administration and Accounting, Legal and Compliance, Facilities and Human Resources. He was also responsible for Legg Mason’s International Asset Management business. Prior to joining Legg Mason, Mr. Scheve served as a Senior Consultant for the Management Information Consulting Group of Price Waterhouse & Company. In this position, he conducted comprehensive financial, operational and management reviews for a variety of businesses, both in the United States and abroad.