Kenneth J. Slepicka

Startech Environmental Corp. is an environmental technology company. The company filed a voluntary petition for reorganization, protection and relief under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code. It is engaged in the manufacturing, marketing and distribution of a recycling system for the global marketplace. The company develops plasma & waste remediation technologies. Its core plasma technology addresses these waste and resource issues by offering remediation solutions that are integrated with a range of equipment solutions and services. The company is engaged in the production and sale of innovative, proprietary plasma processing equipment known as the Plasma Converter System. Startech Environmental was founded by Joseph F. Longo in May 1991 and is headquartered in Wilton, CT.

Vidler Water Resources, Inc. engages in the development of water resource. It sells existing rights and storage credits in Northern Nevada, Southern Nevada, and Arizona. The company was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Carson City, NV.

HyperFeed Technologies, Inc. engages in the provision of ticker plant, routing technology and managed services to internet-based financial data. Its services caters to exchanges, financial institutions, channel partners and hedge funds. The company was founded on June 23, 1980 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. operated a stock exchange. The company was founded on November 13, 2000 and was headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Investment firm Northshore Asset Management LLC is located in Chicago.

Cboe Exchange, Inc. provides options exchange services. It trades equity options, security index options, options on exchange traded notes and products, binary options, one-week and quarterly options, long-term equity anticipation securities options, and flexible exchange options. The firm also provides information on various stock and options trading strategies, options trading tools, stock and option quotes and data; and options information and education. Additionally, they offer access to product information, conference notices, portfolio management tools, and educational materials for institutional investors and products and strategies for advisors to protect client’s portfolios. The company was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Part of UBS Group AG, O'Connor & Associates is a securities options concern. The company is based in Chicago, IL. O'Connor & Associates was acquired by Schweizerischer Bankverein /SBC/ on March 27, 1995.

Chicago Board of Trade provides trade derivative facilities. It allows speculators throughout the world to interpret economic data, news, and other information. The company was founded on April 3, 1848 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

The Clearing Corp. provides financial trading services. The firm acts as a future clearing house, in which the clearing process begins with the execution of a trade through an electronic trading system such as the Eurex U.S. trading platform. The company was founded on December 22, 1925 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.