Madrona Venture Group was founded in 1995 and is based in Seattle, Washington. Madrona Venture Group is a venture capital firm specializing in early stage investments. The firm prefers to invest in the technology sector including enterprise software and services, consumer software and services, consumer Internet, commercial software and services, digital media and advertising, wireless, networking, and infrastructure sectors. It typically invests in the Pacific Northwest region. The firm prefers to be a lead investor. It seeks to take board membership in its portfolio companies.

Cognetas LLP was founded in 1989 and is based in London, United Kingdom with additional offices in Frankfurt, Germany; Milan, Italy; and Paris, France. Cognetas LLP is a private equity firm specializing in management buyouts, buy-ins, public to private transactions, and restructurings of mid-cap mid-market companies. The firm primarily focuses on consumer, industrial, business services, financial services, and healthcare sectors. Within the consumer sector it seeks to invest in the leisure, retail, household and consumer goods, and food and drink sectors. In the industrial sector, the firm’s investments include building materials, automotive, manufacturing, and chemical sectors. Its investment in the financial services sectors includes outsourced financial services, insurance, and financing companies. Within business services sector, the firm prefers to invest in outsourced services, logistics and transportation, facilities management, and other business services. In the healthcare sector, the firm prefers to invest in the healthcare services and equipment sectors.

The Clearing Corporation (TCC) has no problem coming between buyers and sellers of over-the-counter traded derivatives (such as futures and options). As trades are continuously matched throughout the day, TCC substitutes itself as buyer and seller for the trade and thus guarantees the performance of every trade it accepts. The independent clearinghouse serves major dealers and participants in the worldwide derivatives market, most of which are stockholders. The company was formed in 1925 as The Board of Trade Clearing Corporation and became the first independent clearinghouse for futures markets in the US. TCC was bought by the IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) in 2009.

MVC Capital, Inc. was founded in 1999 and is based in Purchase, New York with an additional office at Chicago, Illinois. MVC Capital, Inc. (MVC Capital) is a non-diversified, closed-end management investment company. MVC Capital provides equity and debt investment capital to fund growth, acquisitions and recapitalizations of small and middle-market companies in a variety of industries primarily located in the United States. MVC Capital investment objective is to seek to maximize total return from capital appreciation and/or income. It focuses on achieving its investment objective by providing equity and debt financing to companies that are, for the most part, privately owned (Portfolio Companies). As of October 31, 2009, its portfolio company investments consisted of common and preferred stock, other forms of equity interests and warrants or rights to acquire equity interests, senior and subordinated loans, and convertible securities. MVC Capital is managed by The Tokarz Group Advisers LLC.

President Joseph Shocken founded Broadmark Capital in 1987; since then the company has advised or invested in more than 150 deals worth some $1 billion. Broadmark Capital makes a big deal out of the little guy. The merchant bank provides financing and advisory services, including private placements of stock and mergers & acquisitions guidance, to emerging companies in the US and Europe. It also makes direct investments in firms. The company's typical deal ranges from $500,000 to more than $60 million. Targeted industries include life sciences and health care, technology, financial services, and communications.

VTC is a fast growing and independent industrial group. Through its lean entrepreneurial structures the portfolio companies can react quickly to customers needs and changing market environments. The portfolio companies act fully independent and only receive strategic or M&A support from the holding. Owned by four private individuals, VTC is fully independent and focuses on profitable, long-term growth. Besides promoting organic growth, VTC is constantly evaluating new investment oppurtunities both in its current and in new segments.

Cushman & Wakefield Sonnenblick Goldman is a global leader in real estate financial services, providing highly specialized debt structuring, debt and equity placement, hospitality financing and sales, note sales and associated advisory services. As a premier real estate investment banking firm, Cushman & Wakefield specialize in providing integrated capital solutions for all asset classes and are also a recognized industry leader in the financing and sale of hospitality and resort properties.By drawing on our integrated full service global platform C&WSG are able to assess our clients' current property operations and, at the same time, develop repositioning strategies that enhance asset value and maximize appeal to capital sources. With C&WSG focus on both the debt and equity markets, C&WSG clients the depth of insight and expertise needed to deliver creative, customized structuring solutions drawing from both traditional and non-traditional capital sources in a rapidly changing marketplace. Understanding the entire capital stack from equity and preferred equity to permanent, bridge, mezzanine and construction loans, C&WSG finance specialists tailor solutions to achieve optimal proceeds on the most attractive terms. From the conventional to cutting edge innovations, C&WSG long-standing record is unrivalled.

RBS Securities, a subsidiary of Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), is a leading underwriter, trader, and distributor of fixed-income investment products. RBS Securities specializes in US dollar derivatives, asset-based securities, corporate debt, and prime and subprime mortgage-backed securities. RBS Securities also is active in corporate banking, commercial real estate finance, foreign exchange, futures trading, and financing of mergers and acquisitions. Most of RBS Securities' clients are institutional counterparties and government entities. RBS Securities and its affiliates have offices across the US.

Kinetic Investment Partners specializes in small Australian companies. It performs cash flow analysis to identify undervalued investment prospects. Kinetic Investment Partners company believes that this method can help it avoid accounting irregularities. It also looks at management, business strategy, the industry in which a company operates, and other factors. Formerly HSBC Asset Management (Australia) Limited (AMAU), it was sold by the UK banking goliath to Australian investment firm Challenger Financial Services Group in 2005.

Green Manning & Bunch, Ltd. was founded in 1988 and is based in Denver, Colorado with an additional office in Phoenix, Arizona. As of 07/10/2001, GMB is a subsidiary of CoBiz Financial Inc. Green Manning & Bunch, Ltd. (GMB) is an investment bank that offers financial advisory services to middle market companies. The firm offers mergers and acquisitions advisory, private placements of equity and debt, valuation and fairness opinion, and strategic financial advisory services. It caters to business services, construction, consumer, healthcare, and telecommunications industries.

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