Bridgepoint Capital Limited was founded in 1996 and is based in London, United Kingdom. Bridgepoint Capital Limited is a private equity firm specializing in buyout, buy-in, growth, middle market, consolidation, and public-to-private transactions. The firm prefers to make investments in all sectors including companies engaged in the consumer, financial services, healthcare, media and technology, support services, industrials, business services, and transport industries. Within the business services sector the firm prefers to invest in professional services and business process outsourcing, property and facility services, testing, inspection and certification, equipment rental and asset outsourcing, and transport services and infrastructure. Within the consumer industry investments are sought in companies engaged in food and drink, travel and hospitality, health and fitness, entertainment, specialist retail, leisure, FMCG, pubs and restaurants, and consumer goods. Additionally, the firm seeks to invest in retail turnaround situations or where a consumer brand is capable of further rollout. It seeks to invest in sub-prime lending, independent financial advisers, insurance broking, fund management, support services, consumer and specialist finance, financial infrastructure, technology and services, and wealth and asset management within the financial services sector.

Oxford Technology Management was founded by Lucius Cary, and since 1983 has specialised in making and managing investments in start-up and early stage technology-based businesses with high growth prospects. The OTM team are all scientists or engineers by background, and understanding the technology is the starting point for any investment that we may make. The Investment policy of Oxford Technology Management is to construct a portfolio of investments with the following characteristics: unlisted, UK based, technology businesses, investments typically in the range of £100,000 - £2,000,000, although it can then invest similar amounts in subsequent rounds, in most cases located within easy reach of Oxford to allow a more 'hands on' management strategy. It is expected that approximately half of the funds will be invested in early stage companies (those which have achieved some initial sales) and the balance in start-up companies which are at an earlier stage.

Novastar Financial, Inc. was founded in 1996. NovaStar Financial, Inc. holds non-conforming residential mortgage securities. The company's majority owned subsidiary, StreetLinks National Appraisal Services LLC, is a residential mortgage appraisal management company. Advent Financial Services LLC (Advent), a majority owned subsidiary of the company, provides access to tailored banking accounts, small dollar banking products and related services to meet the needs of low and moderate income level individuals. The company’s portfolio of mortgage securities includes interest-only, prepayment penalty, and overcollateralization securities retained from its securitizations of nonconforming, and single-family residential mortgage loans. Its portfolio of mortgage securities also includes subordinated mortgage securities retained from its securitizations and subordinated home equity loan asset-backed securities (ABS) purchased from other ABS issuers.

Bidtimes' ultimate goal is to invest in and provide advice to growing companies in the UK. Diminishing earnings and continual financial losses led the company to sell the entirety of its remaining freehold property investments in 2006 and 2007. The performance of its previous investments -- in publicly traded real estate investor Innobox, electronics manufacturer SRS Technology Group, and Blue Chip Casinos -- ultimately led to this strategic decision. Bidtimes is actively searching for businesses and scouting for a reverse takeover opportunity that will relaunch the company.

Impact Venture Partners is an early stage venture capital firm. Impact Venture are a team of company builders that believes that pursuing one's goals is the most satisfying expression of human talent. Impact Venture seek to join entrepreneurs who share in this belief and in Impact Venture passion for innovation, opportunity and accomplishment. Impact Venture work relentlessly to offer strategic direction, recruit management and create partnerships. Drawing on Impact Venture extensive, nationwide network of corporate and financial relationships, Impact Venture provide our entrepreneurs with access to the resources needed to accelerate growth and achieve market dominance.

RiskMetrics Group, Inc. provides risk management and corporate governance products and services to participants in the global financial markets. It operates in two segments, RiskMetrics and Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS). The RiskMetrics segment provides multi-asset, position-based risk, and wealth management products and services. Its RiskManager mark-to-market risk system integrates consistently-modeled market data with analytical models and processing capabilities to address its clients’ risk reporting requirements. This segment’s clients license RiskManager as a secure, interactive Web-based application service or as an outsourced risk reporting service. It provides clients with solutions based on credit-event risk through its CreditManager application, as well as solutions for financial advisors at private banks through its WealthBench application. The ISS segment provides corporate governance and specialized financial research and analysis services to institutional investors and corporations. It offers an outsourced proxy research, voting, and vote reporting service to assist clients with their proxy voting responsibilities.

Shenzhen Expressway Company Limited was established on 30 December 1996. It is principally engaged in the investment, construction, operation and management of toll highways and roads. The Company aims at enhancing the ability of wealth creation by improving the quality of operation, obtaining reasonable returns through providing high-quality service to the society, and achieving satisfaction of customers, employees, shareholders and related parties by balancing their interests, so as to foster the Company’s sustainable development. Currently, the Company will maintain its market orientation, focus on the expressway industry, actively explore and engage in new investments in the industry for a synergistic growth in both its scale and efficiency.

First Eagle Investment Management, LLC was founded in 1803 and is based in New York, New York with an additional office in Tokyo, Japan. First Eagle Investment Management, LLC is a privately owned investment manager. The firm provides its services to high net worth individuals, investment companies, pooled investment vehicles, corporations, foundations, endowments, major retirement programs, state or municipal government entities. It manages client-focused equity portfolios. The firm also manages mutual funds and foreign and domestic hedge funds for its clients. It invests in the public equity and alternative markets across the globe. The firm invests in value stocks of companies. It employs fundamental analysis with bottom-up stock picking approach to create its portfolio.

The United Mine Workers of America Health and Retirement Funds (the "Funds") is a group of five multi employer plans that provide health and pension benefits to retired coal miners and their eligible dependents. The Funds has been in existence since 1946. The Funds is headquartered in Washington D.C. and has Field Service Offices located in the coalfield areas of Alabama, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Utah, Virginia and West Virginia. The Funds has approximately 200 employees, most of whom are located in the Washington, D.C. office. The Funds is separate and distinct from the United Mine Workers of America (“UMWA”) and the Bituminous Coal Operators’ Association, Inc. (“BCOA”).

Boston Financial Data Services, Inc. was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in Quincy, Massachusetts. Boston Financial Data Services, Inc., an investor services outsourcing company, provides back-office and transfer agency services for mutual funds, 529 plans, retirement plans, settlement administration, business continuity, real estate investment trusts, and contractual plans. Its services include mail processing, image/cash processing, distribution and dealer, transaction processing, correspondence, investor, financial reconciliation and control, corporate actions, compliance, systems reporting and statements, NSCC processing support, disaster recovery, settlement, and consulting, as well as tax withholding, submission, and reporting. Boston Financial Data Services, Inc. serves institutional and retail-based customers representing the mutual fund, insurance, retirement provider, and banking industries.

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