Allegis Capital was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California with additional offices in Santa Monica, California and San Francisco, California. Allegis Capital is a venture capital firm specializing in investments in seed and early-stage startup companies. The firm also provides incubation services. It typically invests in developing enabling technology and infrastructure, which serve emerging information technology markets with a focus on enabling hardware devices, enterprise software solutions, broadband and wireless delivery technologies, wired and wireless communications, digital media and commerce enablers, internet delivery platforms and services, security, and information services. The firm prefers to invest in the western region of United States and selected investments in Asia. It seeks to invest between $3 million and $5 million in its first investment to acquire an initial 20 % ownership stake in companies and provides capital support for subsequent financings. The firm typically acts as the lead investor and will partner with other venture capital firms. It prefers a board seat on its portfolio companies.

Founded in the 1920s to develop hydroelectric power, Power Corporation of Canada now generates cash, not electricity. Power Corporation of Canada is an investment holding company. As of December 31, 2009, the Company held 66.3% interest in Power Financial Corporation (Power Financial). Power Financial holds interests in the financial services industry, through its controlling interests in Great-West Lifeco Inc. (Lifeco) and IGM Financial Inc. (IGM). Power Financial also holds, together with the Frere group of Belgium, an interest in Pargesa Holding SA (Pargesa). As of December 31, 2009, Pargesa’s portfolio was composed of interests in various sectors, including primarily oil, gas and chemicals through Total S.A. (Total); energy and energy services through GDF Suez; water and waste services through Suez Environnement Company (Suez Environnement); industrial minerals through Imerys S.A. (Imerys); cement and building materials through Lafarge S.A. (Lafarge), and wines and spirits through Pernod Ricard S.A. (Pernod Ricard).

Founded in 1981 as Citicorp's European private equity arm, CVC carried out its own buyout in 1993 and is now owned by its management. It has about 20 offices around the world. CVC Capital Partners is in the business of making other businesses its business. The private equity investor specializes in buyouts of firms in the UK, the US, Western Europe, Asia, and Australia. Its portfolio of more than 50 companies consists mainly of retail, manufacturing, and service firms. Holdings include UK department store chain Debenhams, US-based luggage maker Samsonite, and Japan-based restaurant chain operator Skylark. It acquired a 47.5% stake in Pilot Travel Centers (now Pilot Flying J) in 2008.

Groupe Bruxelles Lambert (GBL or the Company) is a holding company listed on the Brussels Stock Exchange since 15 October 1956. GBL strives to stimulate and promote the growth of a valuable and balanced portfolio of industrial investments, focusing on a small number of major companies, operating in a diversified range of sectors, in which it is able to play its role as a strategic shareholder. The Company’s portfolio consists of four participations, namely Bertelsmann, Total, Suez and Imerys. TotalFina Elf formed by the successive consolidations of the Total, PetroFina and Elf Aquitaine groups, TotalFinaElf is a global oil and gas group and a major player in the chemicals sector. Activities TotalFina Elf is one of the major integrated oil companies. Its activities are based in more than 100 countries and cover the entire oil industry chain, from upstream - exploration, development and production of oil and gas – to downstream - refining and distribution of oil products and international trading of crude oil and refined oil products. TotalFina Elf is also an important operator in the chemicals industry. Upstream, TotalFina Elf’s hydrocarbon reserves amount to some 11.2 billion barrels of oil equivalent. Present in the liquefied natural gas industry, TotalFina Elf is also expanding its activities to related market segments such as gas distribution and electricity generation. Downstream, the group has a refining capacity of 2.3 million barrels a day and sales of 3.7 million barrels a day of refined products. TotalFinaElf has interests in 27 refineries and operates a network of some 16,700 service stations under the Total, Fina and Elf brands, primarily in Europe.

Pi Capital is a unique investor network that finds exciting growth equity and alternative asset investment opportunities for its members, and negotiates participation in select private equity deals and funds. It allows individual investors to participate in transactions on an opt-in basis that are usually the exclusive preserve of institutions.In addition to investment opportunities, Pi Capital offers its members exclusive vibrant social and educational programmes. Throughout the year, Pi Capital provides a unique platform for members to engage with each other and with expert speakers by hosting topical speaker lunches, charity dinners, and cultural and philanthropic events.Pi Capital members are some of the UK’s most successful and influential business leaders. Members are typically entrepreneurs, CEOs, chairmen and non-executive directors of medium to large private and public companies or full time private investors. Together, they sit on over 600 boards and their combined expertise covers all major UK industries and service sectors.

Established in London in 1997 as a subsidiary of US-based bond manager PIMCO, PIMCO Europe offers a variety of account services, institutional, and individual investment funds. Typical investors hail from corporate pension plans, foundations, endowments, public retirement plans, and corporate treasury departments, among others. PIMCO Europe has some E105 billion (approximately $140 billion) in assets under management. PIMCO is one of several investment management arms of German insurer Allianz. PIMCO Europe provides fixed-income management services to clients in the UK and Europe.

Value Line, Inc. was founded in 1931 and is based in New York, New York. Value Line, Inc. is a subsidiary of Arnold Bernhard & Co., Inc. Value Line, Inc. (Value Line) is principally engaged in the business of producing investment-related periodical publications and making available copyrighted data, including Value Line ranking system information and other information under agreements to third parties for use in selecting securities for third party marketed products, such as unit investment trusts, closed-end fund products and exchange traded funds, and providing investment management services to the Value Line Funds and other managed accounts. The Company is organized in two segments: Investment Periodicals, Related Publications and Copyright Data, and Investment Management. The investment-related periodicals offered by Value Line Publishing Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, cover investments, including stocks, mutual funds, options and convertible securities. As of April 30, 2009, the Company was the investment adviser for the Value Line Mutual Funds, which consisted of 14 mutual funds.

Deutsche Beteiligungs AG was founded in 1965 and is based in Frankfurt, Germany. Deutsche Beteiligungs AG is a public investment firm specializing in management buyout transactions of middle market companies. It does not invest in start-up and early stage companies. The firm prefers to make investments across a broad range of sectors, including automotive supplies; machine and plant construction; printing, media, and packaging; industrial services and logistics; and measuring and automation technology. It primarily invests in mid sized companies based in Germany and in German speaking countries. The firm typically invests between €50 million ($70.42 million) and €250 million ($352.10 million) in companies with revenues between €50 million ($70.42 million) and €500 million ($704.20 million).

Gruppo, Levey & Co. (GLC) is a leading independent private investment banking firm specializing in the consumer, industrial, media, multi-channel retail & marketing services sectors. GLC provides M&A services; capital and debt financing raises as well as restructuring services; it advises companies, debtors, trustees and special committees on restructurings, recapitalizations and corporate reorganizations; and provides fairness opinions, due diligence and valuation services.Over the past 15 years, GLC has served as a trusted advisor to entrepreneurs, financial sponsors, corporate boards and family business owners in transactions encompassing every segment of the direct marketing industry, including retailers selling in all channels, B2B marketers, targeted media firms, specialty publishers, database/analytics companies and online/lead generation businesses. GLC is based in New York City.

Crosspoint Venture Partners was founded in 1970 and is based in Woodside, California. Crosspoint Venture Partners is no longer investing. It is a venture capital firm specializes in investments in early stage companies. The firm prefers to invest in companies engaged in e-business services; and software and broadband infrastructure industries. It invests in companies based in the Western United States. The firm invests up to $40 million per project and can also provide up to an additional $10 million in follow-on financings. It takes a board seat and prefers an equity participation of 20 percent or more in its portfolio companies.

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