Mr. Hickman is a special situations analyst focusing primarily on small-cap technology-related companies. He began his career working with Bank of America’s Trust Department in San Francisco analyzing and valuing private companies, and subsequently spent 16 years managing institutional growth-oriented equity money at Wells Capital Management and Jurika & Voyles. In 2003 Jon switched roles and joined the sell side of Wall Street as a special situations analyst at Halpern Capital, later joining Security Research Associates and then MDB Capital Group as an equity technology and life sciences analyst. Mr. Hickman has extensive experience analyzing smaller-cap growth companies. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Chemistry and an M.B.A from Brigham Young University.