Active Media Services, Inc. was incorporated in 1984 and is headquartered in Pearl River, New York. Active Media Services, Inc., doing business as Active International, provides marketing and business solutions. It provides media services, including national broadcast, local broadcast, digital and emerging media, print, out-of-home, youth media, direct response-broadcast, hispanic and multicultural, and mobile services; and retail marketing services, such as retail consulting, merchandising, promotions, environments, and media. The company also provides travel and meeting services, which include hotel rooms, meetings and events, incentive, recognition, loyalty programs, cruises, resorts, special events, and trade shows; and freight and logistics, such as business-to-business, retail, institutional and wholesale delivery channels, warehousing and distribution, pick and pack, supply chain consulting, inventory management, customs brokerage, domestic, ocean and air import/export, point-to-point delivery, and truckload and LTL freight. In addition, it offers music licensing and inventory services.

Robert W. Baird & Co. Incorporated, Research Division is an equity research firm. It offers fundamental and independent sell side research. The firm typically engages in the research of business services, consumer and retail, energy, financial institutions, healthcare and life sciences, industrial, real estate, and technology industries. It focuses on research of U.S. based companies. The firm provides comprehensive industry and company coverage for both institutional and individual clients.

Hong Kong-based Heritage International Holdings invests in commercial real estate, securities, media companies, and the gaming industry (including casinos in Macau and lottery-related businesses in China). Heritage International company also provides short-term financing to companies and individuals. It earns revenue from four primary sources: retail property rental income, interest income from lending money, dividend income from equity investments, and the sale of investments. Among Heritage International company's many holdings, it owns a stake in a lottery-related business (providing primarily lottery ticket sales and outdoor advertising) in the People's Republic of China (PRC).

Oaktree Capital Management, L.P. was founded in April 1995 and is based in Los Angeles, California, with additional offices across United States; Asia; and Europe. Oaktree Capital Management, L.P. is the private equity arm of Oaktree Capital Group, LLC specializing in marketable securities and private investments. The firm’s marketable securities investments include high yield bonds, convertible securities, high-income convertibles, European high yield bonds, and international convertibles. Within high yield bonds, it purchases only debt of solvent United States and Canadian corporations and emphasize senior, cash-paying securities, and thorough diversification. The firm eschews emerging nation debt sector and does not shift adroitly from sector to sector. It invests in senior secured and second lien debt, syndicated mezzanine transactions, senior bank loans, and high yield bonds and concentrates on below-investment-grade syndicated loans. Within convertible securities, the firm focuses on United States, international, and high income convertibles with short maturities. Its private investments strategies include distressed debt, emerging market equities, real estate management, private equity, mezzanine financing, and power infrastructure. In senior bank debt, it focuses primarily on United States dollar-denominated loans secured by first priority liens in performing companies within the United States and Canada.

Commonwealth Bankshares was founded in 1970 and is headquartered in Norfolk, Virginia. Commonwealth Bankshares, Inc. serves as a holding company for Bank of the Commonwealth (the Bank). The Bank operates four branches in Norfolk, six branches in Virginia Beach, four branches in Chesapeake, two branches in Portsmouth, one branch in Suffolk, one branch in Powells Point, North Carolina, one branch in Waves, North Carolina, one branch in Moyock, North Carolina and one branch in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. The Bank conducts all of the business operations of a typical independent, commercial bank, including the acceptance of checking and savings deposits, and the initiating of commercial, real estate, personal, home improvement, automobile and other installment and term loans. The Bank also offers other related services, such as home banking, trust, travelers’ checks, safe deposit, lock box, depositor transfer, customer note payment, collections, notary public, escrow, drive-in facility and other customary banking services.

Noventi LLC was founded in November 1999 and is based in Menlo Park, California. Noventi LLC is a venture capital investment arm of CIR SpA specializing in seed and early stage investments. The firm invests in companies in cleantech and emerging technology companies. It is actively looking for investment opportunities that focus on the convergence of technology, energy, and the environment. The firm seeks to invest in companies based in Europe. It invests between €250,000 ($316,383) and €2.5 million ($3.16 million) in exchange for a minority equity stake ranging between 15% and 35%. The firm prefers to take a board seat in its portfolio companies.

Lightspeed Venture Partners was founded in 1971 is based in Menlo Park, California. Lightspeed Venture Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in early stage and expansion stage investments. The firm structures and participates in equity and debt financing for start-up and growth companies and also provides incubation services. In China, the firm seeks to invest in early stage and late stages businesses. It prefers to make investments in mobile, social media, commerce, gaming, consumer web services, datacenter infrastructure, enterprise automation, digital media and consumer electronics, communications infrastructure technologies, networking, wireless, internet media & commerce, internet and e-commerce, semiconductors, cleantech, and other services. In India, the firm seeks to invest in advertising & media, business services, financial services, healthcare, education, and retail. It primarily invests in the United States, Israel, China, and India. The firm seeks to makes investments not exceeding $20 million. The firm invests between $10 million to $25 million in growth stages in India. It invests between $2 million to $10 million in early stages in India.

United Financial Bancorp, Inc. serves as the holding company for United Bank (the Bank). United Mutual Holding Company is a mutual holding company and owns 53.6% of United Financial Bancorp. The Bank's principal business consists of attracting retail deposits from the general public in the areas surrounding its main office in West Springfield, Massachusetts, and its 12 branch offices located in Feeding Hills, Holyoke, Huntington, Indian Orchard, Longmeadow, Ludlow, Springfield, Northampton and two offices in Westfield, Massachusetts, and investing those deposits, together with funds generated from operations, in one- to four-family residential mortgage loans, as well as in home equity loans and lines of credit, commercial real estate loans, construction loans, commercial and industrial loans, automobile loans, other consumer loans, and investment securities. During the year ended December 31, 2006, United Bank acquired Levine Financial Group.

Meritech Capital Partners was founded in 1999. Meritech Capital Partners places late-stage venture capital investments in information technology and communications technology companies with proven track records and quality management teams. It also participates in buyouts and spinoffs. The firm manages almost $2 billion in committed capital. Portfolio holdings include interests in networking equipment maker BigBand Networks, optical switch maker Agility Communications, and data storage device maker BlueArc, and distributed antenna systems builder NextG Networks. Meritech has been investing heavily in companies based in, or with extensive operations in, foreign countries, including Canada, China, the Netherlands, and the UK.

Gluskin Sheff + Associates was founded in 1984 and is based in Toronto, Canada. Gluskin Sheff + Associates Inc. is a publicly owned investment manager. The firm also provides wealth management services. It provides its services to high net worth investors, including entrepreneurs, professionals, family trusts, private charitable foundations, pension and profit sharing plans, pooled investment vehicles, charitable organizations , corporations, and estates. The firm also manages accounts for institutions. It manages equity and balanced portfolios and mutual funds for its clients. The firm invests in the public equity markets across the globe. It also invests in fixed income and alternative markets. The firm primarily invests in value, income, and growth stocks employing a fundamental analysis with a bottom-up stock approach. It also invests in income trusts, hedge funds, and fixed income.

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