Steven Carlson

Provident Group is a boutique investment banking and advisory firm founded in 1998 by Wall Street veterans, dedicated to servicing the middle markets within the Americas and other select emerging markets through the structuring and private placement of client transactions. Provident Group has a highly articulated global network of relationships with institutional investors with which it places its transaction flow, consisting primarily of large macro and emerging market hedge funds, private equity funds, pension funds and insurance companies. Provident Group's most valuable asset is it professional team, drawn from top buy and sell side Wall Street firms including Lehman Brothers, Salomon Brothers, Bear Stearns, JP Morgan and Deutsche Bank Capital Partners.

South Street Securities LLC provides repo cash investment and repo security financing services. Its services include trade execution and financing and manage a matched repo portfolio. The company was founded by James M. Tabacchi in 2001 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Pi Capital International LLC provides investment advice. The private company is based in New York, NY and has subsidiaries in South Korea. The company was founded by Steven J. Carlson.

Part of Marco Polo New World, Inc., Marco Polo Securities, Inc. operates as an agency broker in emerging markets. The company is based in New York, NY. Mathew J. McConnell has been the CEO of the company since 2020.

Quantum Fintech Acquisition Corp. is a blank check company, which engages in entering into a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, recapitalization, reorganization, or other similar business combination with one or more businesses or entities. The company was founded on October 1, 2020 and is headquartered in Tampa, FL.

StoneX Financial, Inc. (SFI) is a registered broker-dealer firm headquartered in Winter Park, Florida. The firm was founded in 1998 and formerly known as INTL FCStone Securities, Inc. and as INTL FCStone Financial, Inc. They are a subsidiary of StoneX Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: SNEX). SFI provides institutional clients with a complete suite of equity trading services to help them find liquidity with best execution and end-to-end clearing. The firm specializes in delivering speed, accuracy and execution quality to their customers in illiquid and complex markets.

A subsidiary of Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc., Lehman Brothers, Inc. is a broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. They provide global equity and fixed research. The equity research department covers more than 100 sectors. They use a fundamental, quantitative, strategic and tactical research approach. In addition to these Lehman has also developed special products, such as 10 uncommon values and 10 uncommon eurovalues.