About Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) (www.gs.com):
Goldman Sachs is a leading global investment banking and securities firm, providing a full range of investing, advisory and financing services worldwide to a substantial and diversified client base, which includes corporations, financial institutions, governments and high net worth individuals. Founded in 1869, it is one of the oldest and largest investment banking firms. The Firm is headquartered in New York and maintains offices in London, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Hong Kong and other major financial centers around the world.

About J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) (www.jpmorganchase.com):
J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM, www.jpmorganchase.com) is a premier global financial services firm with assets in excess of $705 billion and operations in over 60 countries. The firm is a leader in investment banking, asset management, private equity, consumer banking, private banking, e-finance, and custody and processing services. Headquartered in New York, J.P. Morgan Chase serves 32 million consumer customers and over 5,000 corporate, institutional, and government clients.

About Lehman Brothers (NYSE: LEH) (www.lehman.com):
Lehman Brothers is a leading global investment bank with leadership positions in corporate finance, advisory services, private equity, municipal finance and fixed income and equity sales, trading and research. Lehman Brothers serves the financial needs of corporate, government and institutional clients, and high-net-worth individuals through offices in major financial centers worldwide.

About Merrill Lynch (NYSE: MER) (www.ml.com):
Merrill Lynch is one of the world's leading financial management and advisory companies with offices in 44 countries and total client assets of about $1.7 trillion. As an investment bank, it is the top global underwriter and market maker of debt and equity securities and a leading strategic advisor to corporations, governments, institutions and individuals worldwide. Through Merrill Lynch Investment Managers, the company is one of the world's largest managers of financial assets. For more information on Merrill Lynch, go to www.ml.com.

About Morgan Stanley Dean Witter (NYSE: MWD) (www.msdw.com):
Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co. is a preeminent global financial services company and a market leader in securities, asset management, and credit services. The company's top-ranked research, along with world class product origination, asset management and other extensive resources create a unique combination of capabilities that provide both individual and institutional clients with access to the most comprehensive array of high quality products and services in the financial services industry today. The Company has more than 600 offices in 27 countries around the world.

About Salomon Smith Barney (subsidiary of Citigroup; NYSE: C) (www.citigroup.com):
Citigroup's Global Corporate and Investment Bank brings together the world's most global corporate bank, Citibank, with a leading global investment bank, Salomon Smith Barney, to provide complete financial solutions to corporations, governments, institutions and individuals in more than 100 countries. Award-winning businesses include corporate and investment banking services, investment advice, financial planning and commercial insurance products.

About SecuritiesHub LLC:
SecuritiesHub LLC is a B2B e-commerce company formed by six top Wall Street firms and Communicator Inc. to create online hubs, which link the dealers with institutional investors around the globe. SecuritiesHub highlights each of the dealers' brand, content and customer relationships through Communicator's proprietary Thin Consortium Technology (TCT). SecuritiesHub products include the highly successful "Bond.Hub," which was launched in December 1999, and "SyndicateHub," launched in February 2001. More than 8,000 institutional investors from more 60 countries currently use the Bond.Hub service, along with more than 5,000 investors already registered for the launch of SyndicateHub, making SecuritiesHub the fastest-growing consortium in the Securities Industry. More than 500 analysts and traders contribute daily to the service, which co-mingles bond market prices, data, news and research from the participating dealers. SyndicateHub is the leading multi-dealer Internet hub for institutional investors accessing information on new issue bond offerings. Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter and Salomon Smith Barney own a majority interest in the venture. Communicator Inc. provides the technology and infrastructure and operates the business, owning a minority interest.

About Communicator Inc (www.communicatorinc.com):
Communicator Inc. designed, built and operates both Bond.Hub and SyndicateHub for six leading Wall Street firms. Communicator's Thin Consortium Technology (TCT) was developed for industry leaders looking for an alternative to emerging e-commerce efforts that dis-intermediated them from their clients and created a new competitor. The TCT solution is proven and designed to be inexpensive and fast to market, unlike the traditional heavy consortium model. Communicator gives market leaders unmatched control and security of confidential information, customer relationships and branding, while aggregating content with other supplier information. The objective of the Communicator TCT solution is to build stronger direct relationships between leading suppliers and their core customers. Communicator's focus on the information surrounding the sales process -- not the transaction - has created an environment that promotes a more valuable relationship for both the salesperson and the customer. As a result, leaders in vertical industries are viewing Communicator's TCT model as an alternative to turning joint e-commerce ventures over to third parties or forming a "thick" consortium laden with bureaucracy.