Oak Investment Partners is a multi-stage venture capital firm. The primary investment focus is on high growth opportunities in Broadband Internet and Wireless Communications, Information Technology and Software Outsourced Services, Consumer Internet/New Media, Financial Services Technology, Healthcare Information and Services, Clean Energy, and Retail. Over a 31-year history, Oak has achieved a strong track record as a stage-independent investor funding more than 481 companies at key points in their lifecycle. Oak has been involved in the formation of companies, funded spinouts of operating divisions and technology assets, and provided growth equity to mid- and late-stage private businesses and to public companies through PIPE investments.

CIBC World Markets Inc. (Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce)1 is the wholesale banking arm of CIBC (TSX, NYSE: CM), a leading North American financial institution. CIBC provide a broad range of integrated credit and capital markets products, investment banking and merchant banking to markets in key financial centres around the world.Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce financial services include credit and capital market products, investment banking and merchant banking. CIBC are the Canadian leader in M&A advisory across a wide range of industries, as well as a leader in equity underwriting and structured products. CIBC offer innovative capital solutions, as well as top-ranked research to CIBC corporate, government and institutional clients.Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce 1,100 employees around the world work in highly disciplined cross-functional teams to provide industry expertise, focused market intelligence, and creative financial solutions to meet the unique business challenges of CBIC clients. CBIC uccess is driven by solid relationships with CBIC clients, including the CEOs and CFOs of some of the top performing companies.

Credit Acceptance Corporation provides auto loans to consumers primarily in the United States. Credit Acceptance Corporation primarily provides the portfolio and purchase programs. Credit Acceptance Corporation portfolio program comprises advancing money to dealer-partners in exchange for the right to service the underlying consumer loan; and the purchase program includes buying the consumer loan from the dealer-partner and keeping various amounts collected from the consumer. Credit Acceptance Corporation offers its products through a network of automobile dealers. Credit Acceptance Corporation was founded in 1972 and is headquartered in Southfield, Michigan.

Westwood Holdings Group, Inc. was founded in 1983 and is based in Dallas, Texas. Westwood Holdings Group, Inc. (Westwood) manages investment assets and provides services for its clients through its two subsidiaries, Westwood Management Corp. (Westwood Management) and Westwood Trust. Westwood Management provides investment advisory services to corporate retirement plans, public retirement plans, endowments and foundations, a family of mutual funds, which the Company calls the WHG Funds, other mutual funds and clients of Westwood Trust. Westwood Trust provides trust and custodial services and participation in common trust funds that it sponsors to institutions and high net worth individuals. Westwood’s revenues are generally derived from fees based on a percentage of assets under management. On November 16, 2009, Westwood acquired Baxter Financial Corporation.

School Employees Retirement System of Ohio was formed in 1937 and is based in Columbus, Ohio. School Employees Retirement System of Ohio (SERS) provides pension, survivor, disability, and post-retirement health care benefits active and retired non-teaching public school employees of Ohio. As a limited partner, School Employees Retirement System of Ohio is a public pension fund with $8 billion in assets under management. The fund engages in the following alternative investment strategies: buyouts/corporate finance, international private equity, and venture capital. It has a net internal rate of return target of the S&P 500 + 3%. The fund allocates 1% to 5% of its total assets to alternative investments.

Unique Investment Corp. believes that each venture capital investment opportunity is unique and special. Unique Investment company targets both growing ventures and small and middle-market companies in the manufacturing and business services industries for investment. Unique Investment firm has taken stakes in Acorn-Gencon Plastics, CPI International, Gold Canyon Candles, and Qqest Software Systems.

Wells Fargo Securities, formerly Wachovia Capital Markets, provides investment banking and capital markets services for businesses. Offerings include financial and corporate advisory services, private capital and debt placement, underwriting, and equity investing. It also offers real estate financing, risk management services, and structured products such as asset-backed finance products. The firm has expertise with municipalities and in the retail, aerospace, financial services, energy, health care, real estate, media, and technology industries. Wells Fargo Securities and its former parent, Wachovia Corporation, were acquired by Wells Fargo in late 2008.

Spanning over five decades of contributing to the country’s economic growth, Malaysian Industrial Development Finance Berhad (MIDF) today has strengthened its foothold in many segments of the financial services industry. MIDF was incorporated on 30 March 1960 mainly for the purpose of ensuring access to financing for manufacturing-based small-and-medium enterprises (SMEs) as part of Malaysia’s strategy to expedite the industrial sector development. From boasting the status as Malaysia’s maiden development finance institution, MIDF has over the years transformed into a diversified group.Following its merger with Amanah Capital Partners Berhad in 2003, the acquisition of Utama Merchant Bank Berhad (UMBB) in 2004, and the establishment of MIDF Amanah Investment Bank Berhad (MIDF Investment) in 2006, the MIDF Group accentuated its ambition to become a leading financial services provider in three core business areas, namely investment banking, asset management and development finance. A subsidiary of Permodalan Nasional Berhad (PNB), MIDF has total assets of over RM9 billion and shareholders’ funds of over RM2 billion.

Louis Dreyfus Commodities, one of the world’s leading commodity merchants and processors of agricultural products, has merchandised and traded bulk commodities in international markets since 1851. LDCommodities is ranked number one in world cotton merchandising and is one of the three largest producers of orange juice with a 15-percent share of the global market. The company is also a leader in the grains and oilseeds, sugar, coffee, rice, metals, freight and emerging financial trading markets.

Draper Fisher Jurvetson was founded in 1985 and is based in Menlo Park, California. Draper Fisher Jurvetson is a venture capital firm specializing in seed, start-up, and early stage investments in emerging markets. The firm primarily invests in information technology, energy, clean technology, consumer media and advertising, consumer services and transactions, life sciences, mobile and wireless, new media, Internet content, e-commerce, telecommunications, nanotechnology, enterprise applications and services. Within information technology, it focuses on web-based applications and services, software infrastructure including peer-to-peer infrastructure, data communications and bandwidth enhancement, information services, and wireless applications, services, and technologies. Within nanotechnology and life sciences, the firm invests in bio-nano and biomimetic innovations, MEMS, novel materials, molecular electronics, medical devices and therapeutics, molecular diagnostics, bioinformatics, agbio, bio-energy, and various platforms and tools. Within clean energy technologies, it invests in energy generation, transmission, utilization and storage, water purification, grid optimization, industrial sensing and monitoring, and advanced materials and catalysts.

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