Alex Hamilton

Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC is a registered broker-dealer subsidiary of Morgan Stanley Domestic Holdings, Inc., ultimately owned by Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) in the US. Headquartered in New York City, the firm was founded in 1987 and provides debt and equity services including underwriting, M&A advice, securities dealing and brokerage and trade execution. Their client base ranges from large global institutional investors to hedge funds at the cutting edge of innovation in the industry.

C.K. Cooper & Co. is a full-service investment banking and broker/dealer headquartered in Irvine, California. The firm was founded in 1982 as a wholly-owned subsidiary of C & K Capital Corp., and a sister company to Paladin Capital Partners, Inc. The services provided by C.K. Cooper & Co. were expanded in 1996, when a management team led by Alexander G. Montano purchased the firm. In 2001, C.K. Cooper & Co. began to offer brokerage services to individual investors. The firm is a member of the NASD. C.K. Cooper & Co. focuses on the oil and gas sectors. Their primary focus within the oil and gas sectors is the exploration and production sub-sector. The core thesis of the firm's research is based on what they refer to as the feeding frenzy, suggesting that there are constant business cycles within the E&P sector. These cycles are predicated on the need for larger oil and gas companies to acquire smaller exploration and production companies to maintain rates of growth.

Founded in 2000, EarlyBirdCapital, Inc. is a broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm provides a full array of trading and execution services for their clients. They do not provide any internal research. The firm is a subsidiary of EBC Holdings, Inc. and their ultimate parent is Firebrand Financial Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFGI).

National Defense Industrial Association engages in the defense and national security education. It offers courses such as configuration and data management certification program, defense systems acquisitions management, mastering business development, and certified modeling and simulation professional certification program. The company was founded in 1919 and is headquartered in Arlington, VI.

Founded in 2010, Consilium Global Research LLC is an independent investment research firm located in St. Petersburg, Florida. The firm's research focuses on high-quality small- and mid-cap companies that are underfollowed by Wall Street. They provide coverage on all industry groups. Consilium Global Research seeks to help undercovered companies achieve greater recognition in the investment community.

Kei Advisors LLC is a private company that provides customized investor relations services to small and micro-cap companies across various industries. The company is based in Buffalo, NY, and was founded by Deborah K. Pawlowski, who has been the CEO since incorporation. The company's services include developing targeted IR strategies, strategic communications, shareholder engagement, crisis management, ESG plans, capital markets intelligence, leadership coaching, trading, and liquidity improvement.

XiBiDi Biotechnology Co., Ltd. engages in the online, retail, and direct sale of hemp-based health products. Its products include CBD magic hemp series, a cosmetics line which included three initial products, namely, the CBDBIO TECH Brightening and Refreshing Moisturizer, the CBDBIO TECH Perfecting Shield Primer, and the CBDBIO TECH Peptide Collagen Solution. Its consumer division offers wholesale and distribution of liquor and alcoholic beverages. The company was founded in March 2017 and is headquartered in Shanghai, China.

Hemp Logic, Inc. provides business services. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Gabriel, CA.

Part of Bakhu Holdings Corp., CBD Biotech, Inc. operates as a biotechnology research and American development company.