John Sorte

Founded in 1982, Morgan Joseph TriArtisan LLC, formerly Morgan Joseph & Co., Inc., is a full-service investment banking firm and broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was also previously known as Morgan Lewis & Co. Morgan Joseph TriArtisan is a subsidiary of Morgan Joseph TriArtisan Group, Inc. Morgan Joseph TriArtisan's primary focus is on providing financial advisory and capital raising services in the US, Europe and Asia. This includes mergers and acquisitions advice, restructuring advice, private placements and public offerings of debt and equity. For their institutional clients, Morgan Joseph TriArtisan provides a full range of sales and executions services, including equity research and specialized reports on convertible debt. The firm's sales and trading teams service a variety of institutional clients with both debt and equity investment ideas and trading services. Morgan Joseph primarily serves the consumer products, healthcare, automotive, chemical, transportation, construction, entertainment, telecommunications and media industries. Morgan Joseph TriArtisan's debt and equity analysts cover a growing universe of stock and bond issues across a broad range of industry sectors. Their equity research focuses primarily on middle-market companies with limited research and coverage and uses a classic bottom-up qualitative approach. The high-yield department specializes in finding trading opportunities by identifying undervalued and overvalued high-yield debt for institutional clients. They focus on small- to mid-sized issues that are not widely covered and are often mispriced in the market. Morgan Joseph TriArtisan is a member of FINRA, the NASD and the SIPC.

New Street Capital Corp. is a merchant banking firm. New Street Capital was acquired by Green Capital Investors LP from Drexel Burnham Lambert, Inc. on February 28, 1994 for $209 million.

WestPoint Stevens, Inc. manufactures, markets and distributes an extensive range of bed and bath home fashions products. The company's trademark brands include ATELIER MARTEX, BABY MARTEX, CHATHAM, GRAND PATRICIAN, MARTEX, PATRICIAN, UTICA, STEVENS, LADY PEPPERELL, LUXOR, and VELLUX. Its products are marketed through department stores, mass merchants, specialty stores, institutional channels, and WestPoint Stevens Stores, Inc. The company also has significant market share in the domestic accessories market, which includes comforters, bedspreads, bed pillows, throw pillows and mattress pads, among others. WestPoint Stevens was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in West Point, GA.

Shorts International Ltd. provides short film entertainment services. It owns and operates ShortsTV, which brings audiences around the world the best short movies on TV, online and in theaters, as well as Shorts Factory, which produces original short film content for broadcasters and brands. The company was founded by Carter Pilcher in 2000 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Morgan Joseph TriArtisan Group, Inc. provides investment banking services. The private company is based in New York, NY and has subsidiaries in the United States. The company was founded by John F. Sorte.