STEVEN SINGLETON

Executive Vice President – Director of Research

Mr. Singleton has over 24 years of experience in developing fundamental, technical, and quantitative models to understand the various factors that effect stock price and equity portfolio performance and is the creator of ELROI. Prior to joining Robert Van Securities in 1995, he spent 10 years in the financial information services business with Fact Set Research Systems, Interactive Data Corporation and Lotus One Source Information selling and supporting services that require the manipulation of fundamental, pricing and expectational data. He is a General Securities Principal, Registered Representative and Registered Research Analyst (NASD Series 7, 24, 63, 65, 86 and 87). Mr. Singleton earned a B.A. in Mathematics/Economics from Claremont McKenna College (formerly Claremont Men’s College).

CLAYTON EARLE

Senior Vice President – Research

Mr. Earle has over 18 years experience in equity research and portfolio management. Mr. Earle has worked in senior positions at Woodford Capital Management, Montgomery Securities and Lehman Brothers. Mr. Earle graduated with an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1994 and was an analyst at Merrill Lynch’s New York City headquarters in the Investment Banking Division prior to business school. Clayton is a registered research analyst and investment advisor ( Series (NASD Series 7, 66, 86 and 87). Mr. Earle holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Brown University with graduate work in computer networks, artificial intelligence, and robotics.

Liwen (Lena) Zhang

Senior Vice President – Research

Ms. Zhang has over seven years experience in equity research, covering the semiconductor sector. Prior joining Blaylock Robert Van, Ms. Zhang had worked at Pacific Crest Securities for roughly six years and WR Hambrecht for over one year. She has received top rankings from Bloomberg for the stocks under her coverage. She is a registered research analyst (NASD Series 7, 66, 86 and 87). Ms. Zhang graduated with an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University and with a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering and a Bachelor of Administration in Business from Shanghai University.

MATTHEW CRAWFORD

Vice President – Research

Mr. Crawford is an analyst within the Equity Research and Asset Management division focusing on portfolio analytics, general investment research and company valuation. Matthew is a registered research analyst and investment adviser representative (Series 7, 66, 86 and 87) bringing over 2 years of experience in financial markets, industry and company valuation and quantitative analysis. Matthew earned a Bachelor of Science in Economics and a minor in Mathematics from Saint Mary’s College of California.