Hamon Investment Group believes in Asia's potential to provide investors with long-term capital growth, and it wants to put your money where its mouth is. Hamon is an independent asset management firm specializing in Asian investments. It offers open-ended funds and individual discretionary accounts to corporations, family trusts, financial institutions, pension funds, and private investors. Its flagship fund, Hamon Asian Market Leaders Fund, invests in regional Asian companies and emerging blue chip growth companies. The Hamon Selected Asian Portfolio fund makes strategic equity investments in listed Asian growth companies. Its Asian iTech Fund invests in listed equities of Asian IT and electronics companies.

Main Street Resources is a private equity firm comprised of entrepreneurs, executives and investors who provide investment capital and resources to companies with great people and potential. Founder Dan Levinson, along with his team, advisors and operating partners (the “Guild”), bring deep resources and expertise to create a supportive environment for the firm’s portfolio companies, helping them to thrive. We provide capital, financial and strategic expertise, and the resources, contacts and advice of our 100+ experienced investors. Main Street’s investors are principally owners and operators of mid-size companies interested in backing and assisting other promising companies and management teams. On behalf of these investors, who have long-standing relationships with the firm, we search for attractive, proprietary opportunities where our resources can be brought to bear.

Lightyear Capital Inc. is an investment banking firm that focuses on small and mid-cap companies. The firm provides merger and acquisition, fairness opinions, sourcing and valuation, turnaround and divestiture, privatization, management buyout (MBOs), initial public offering, secondary financing, private placement, private equity and venture capital financing, reverse take over (RTO) transaction, reorganization and re-capitalization, and strategic advisory services. It also offers investment research, institutional sales and brokerage, and private client services.

Founded in 1932, Duff & Phelps Investment Management Co. is unrelated to investment bank Duff & Phelps Corporation. Duff & Phelps Investment Management manages mutual funds, closed-end funds, and institutional accounts with investments real estate investment trusts (REITs) -- its specialty -- global utilities and infrastructure stocks, large-cap equities, and investment-grade fixed-income products. Clients include individual investors, corporations, retirement funds, endowments, and not-for-profits. A subsidiary of Virtus Investment Partners, the company has approximately $6 billion in assets under management. Both Duff & Phelps and Virtus (formerly Phoenix Investment Partners) were spun off from The Phoenix Companies in 2008.

Informative Research Inc. is an information provider for lenders, brokers, and agents involved in the mortgage lending business. Informative Research helps mitigate the financial risk involved with mortgage lending by providing clients with credit reports on potential customers, and identifying fraudulent or invalid loan applications. Informative Research Inc. also offers flood zone determinations, including life of loan reports and portfolio monitoring, as well as automated valuation modeling, including property valuation reports and physical appraisal audits. Informative Research was founded in 1946.

Harris & Harris Group has been investing in companies with proprietary technology since 1983. For most of Harris & Harris history, Harris & Harris were a very small firm that invested in and helped develop early stage businesses, particularly ones founded on proprietary intellectual property.Harris & Harris Group, Inc.® is an active investor committed to working side-by-side with the management of its portfolio companies to surmount the many challenges they confront. Harris & Harris assist Harris & Harris portfolio companies in attacking general strategic and operational problems, as well as assisting them with business and intellectual property strategy, executive recruiting, fundraising, preparing for compliance with Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and building collaborations with strategic partners.Harris & Harris believe in the classical early stage venture capital model and disciplines. Harris & Harris think that most technology-based start-ups can use all the help they can get from the diversified experiences, network of contacts, complimentary business networks, technical expertise, up-to-date customer connections and financial resources that a syndicate of professional venture capital investors can provide.Harris & Harris are looking for scientific, technological, business and execution excellence. Proprietary, well-protected and highly differentiated technology is a prerequisite. However, Harris & Harris are eager to invest in companies with market-centric strategies that seek to define and dominate large product categories. But above all, Harris & Harris back passionate entrepreneurs who want to change the world with their nanotechnology-enabled products.

Evercore Partners Inc. (Evercore), incorporated on July 20, 2005, is an independent investment banking advisory firms in the world based on the dollar volume of announced worldwide merger and acquisition (M&A). The Company provides advisory services to multinational corporations on mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, restructurings, financings and other strategic corporate transactions. Evercore also includes an Investment Management business through which it manages institutional assets for institutional investors, provide wealth management services for net-worth individuals, provide specialized investment management, independent fiduciary and trustee services to employee benefit plans of large corporations and manage private equity funds.The Company operates in two business segments: Advisory and Investment Management. In April 2010, the Company announced that the acquisition of MJC Associates, a commercial real estate advisory boutique.

Founded in 1959, China Development Financial Holding Corporation ("CDFH" ) has long played a pioneering role in Taiwan's economic development. China Development Financial Holding Corporation is a Taiwan-based company engaged in provision of financial and investment services. The Company operates its businesses through commercial banking, including deposits, loans, securities investment services, foreign exchange trading, corporate financing, investment consulting services, distribution of financial derivatives and venture capital services, among others, as well as security business, including underwriting, broking and trading of securities, short-term bills and futures.

Integral Capital Partners was founded in 1991 and is based in Menlo Park, California with an additional office in Baltimore, Maryland. Integral Capital Partners is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in investments in expansion-stage private and growth-stage public companies and buyout opportunities. The firm typically invests in all stages of a company’s development, beyond the start up phase. It also seeks to invest in venture and public stages of a company. The firm prefers to invest in companies in the life sciences and information technology sectors. Within the life sciences sector, it focuses on investments in emerging medical technologies, health care information systems, and companies targeting the cardiology and oncology markets. In the information technology sector, the firm seeks to invest in the Internet, software, software as a service, information security, computer services, and consumer technology markets. It also makes investments based on the themes communications-centric computing, real-time computing, and mobility.

Och-Ziff Capital Management Group LLC was founded in 1994 and is based New York, New York with additional offices in London, United Kingdom; Hong Kong; Tokyo, Japan; Bangalore, India; and Beijing, China. Och-Ziff Capital Management Group LLC is a publicly owned investment manager. Och-Ziff Capital firm provides investment advisory services for its clients. It invests in alternative markets across the world. Och-Ziff Capital firm employs quantitative and qualitative analysis to make its investments. Och-Ziff Capital firm aslo manages a buyout fund, Och-Ziff Energy Fund.

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