BB BIOTECH AG is a Switzerland-based investment company, which principal activity is to invest in companies active in the biotechnology industry. BB BIOTECH AG invests mainly in companies operating in such sectors as oncology, cardiovascular diseases, infectious diseases and autoimmune diseases. As of December 31, 2009, the Company’s portfolio comprised 23 companies, including Actelion, Gilead, Celgene, Genentech, Biogen Idec, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Elan, Basilea Pharmaceuticals and Roche Holding GS, among others. The investments are held through its wholly owned subsidiaries, which include Biotech Focus NV, Biotech Invest NV, Biotech Target NV and Biotech Growth NV.

Crowell Weedon & Co. was founded in 1932 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California with additional offices in Carlsbad, West Covina, Encino, Newport Beach, Pasadena, San Diego, La Jolla, and Long Beach, California. Crowell, Weedon & Co. (CWC) provides financial advisory and securities brokerage services. The firm’s services include financial planning, fee-based investment programs, customized retirement strategies, investment advisory, corporate finance, preferred and common stocks, and tax-deferred annuities and insurance.

RBC Wealth Management company offers private banking, asset management, brokerage, and estate and trust services in more than 20 countries. About half of the company's revenue, however, comes from outside Canada, where the company caters to more than 35,000 individuals and institutions. It has about $500 billion of assets under administration and about $245 billion of assets under management. RBC Wealth Management boasts more than 4,500 financial consultants, advisors, private bankers, and trust officers, and has about 200 offices throughout the US.

RS Investment Management Co. LLC was founded in 1986 and is based in San Francisco, California with an additional office in New York. RS Investment Management Co. LLC, doing business as RS Investments, is a privately owned investment manager. It provides its services to pension and profit sharing plans, investment companies, pooled investment vehicles, endowments, foundations, high net worth individuals, corporations, and banks. The firm manages separate client-focused equity and fixed income portfolios. It also manages mutual funds for its clients. The firm invests in the public equity and fixed income markets across the globe. It invests in growth and value stocks of small-cap, mid-cap, and large-cap companies. The firm employs a fundamental analysis to create its portfolio. It conducts an in-house research to make its investments.

Audiolux luxuriates in Luxembourg-based investments -- including a number that deal in audio. The investment outfit takes minority stakes in media and communications companies, especially those headquartered in its own tiny grand duchy. Audiolux invests in both startups and more advanced companies; it has taken stakes in SES Global, RTL Group, and Utopia, among others. In some cases, Audiolux takes an active advisory role as it helps to build the business of its portfolio companies. Financial firm Luxempart owns more than 70% of Audiolux.

Heritage Partners wants to help companies keep their affairs all in the family. The investment firm specializes in acquisitions and equity-based recapitalizations of private family-owned businesses. Heritage Partners generally targets establilshed middle-market companies involved in manufacturing, distribution, health care, business services, and consumer goods with annual sales of at least $30 million. Through its trademarked "Private IPO," Heritage Partners makes a substantial equity investment in a company while allowing its owners to further build their business and maintain control. Portfolio companies include OneSource Distributors, REACH Air Medical Services, and manufacturers Centra and Saunders & Associates.

Lightyear Capital and its affiliated investment funds specialize in providing buyout and growth capital to companies across the financial services industry. Founded in 2000, Lightyear Capital has managed approximately $3 billion in committed capital. With its Principals averaging over 25 years of experience across the financial services industry, Lightyear Capital is ideally positioned to respond to the challenges and opportunities of financial services investing. Lightyear Capital has fully invested The Lightyear Fund, L.P. and is currently investing Lightyear Fund II, L.P.

OAM Avatar is owned by Overture Asset Managers. OAM Avatar, LLC company offers investments, analysis, and brokerage services for financial planners, institutions, wrap brokerage sponsors, and private clients. It manages more than $1 billion in assets from a portfolio that includes Microsoft, Bank of America, United Technologies, Target, and Johnson & Johnson. Products include equity and balanced brokerage programs, defensive and core equity, mutual funds, and customized services for private clients.

Astellas Venture Management invests in seed-stage and emerging biotech companies, including drug discovery and development companies. The firm manages four venture funds, and its portfolio includes more than 20 companies. Astellas Venture Management is the venture capital arm of Astellas Pharma, formed from the 2005 merger of Yamanouchi Pharmaceutical and Fujisawa Pharmaceutical. Astellas Venture Management provides its portfolio companies not only with cash, but also access to the scientific expertise, production facilities, and marketing clout of its parent firm.

University College London is one of the premier universities in the UK for research and innovation, and is dedicated to harnessing its exceptional research for positive social and economic benefit. To this end it has created UCL Business PLC. A wholly-owned subsidiary of University College London, UCL Business has been formed to help industry and business make the most of UCL innovations. Through licensing technologies & innovations, engaging consultancy services, creating shared-risk joint-venture businesses, and utilising UCL’s specialist Subsidiaries, UCL Business promotes and supports the transfer into industry of expertise and knowledge over a wide range of disciplines.

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