Brentwood Associates was founded in 1972 and is based in Los Angles, California. Brentwood Associates is a venture capital and private equity firm specializing in investments in middle market growth companies. The firm invests in management buyouts, industry consolidations, recapitalizations, PIPEs, and growth capital transactions. It invests in consumer-related businesses including action sports; outdoor lifestyle products; business services; consumer products and services; direct marketing; distribution; education; health, wellness and conscious living; marketing services; restaurants; specialty media; specialty retail; and sporting goods. The firm seeks to invest between $20 million and $75 million in the portfolio companies and has the ability to lead equity investments of $150 million or more. It seeks to invest in companies with operating cash flows exceeding $10 million, operating margins exceeding 10 percent, and purchase price between $50 million and $400 million. The firm prefers majority ownership stake in the portfolio companies but may consider significant minority investments. It seeks to take a seat on the Advisory Board of its portfolio companies.

RHB Capital Berhad (RHB Capital) is a Malaysia-based investment holding company. RHB Capital Bhd, through its subsidiaries, operates in six segments: corporate and investment holding (CIB), retail banking, treasury and money market, Islamic banking business, international banking and others. CIB provides a full range of investment banking services, including corporate finance, debt and equity capital market, stockbroking business, investment management services, unit trust funds management, futures and options broking and research services. Retail Banking focuses on providing products and services to individual customers and small and medium sized enterprises. Treasury and money market operations are involved in trading in fixed income securities and foreign exchange and derivatives trading, among others. Other activities include nominee services, property investment and rental and other related financial services. RHB Capital Bhd has a number of subsidiaries.

Fred Alger Management was founded in 1964 and is based in New York, New York with additional offices in Jersey City, New Jersey and Boston, Massachusetts. Fred Alger Management, Inc. is an asset management arm of Fred Alger & Company Incorporated. The firm provides its services primarily to individuals. It also caters to investment companies, pooled investment vehicles, high net worth individuals, pension and profit sharing plans, charitable organizations, corporations, endowments and foundations, and state or municipal government entities. The firm manages separate client-focused equity portfolios. It also manages equity, fixed income, and balanced mutual funds for its clients. The firm primarily invests in the public equity and fixed income markets across the globe. It invests in growth stocks of small-cap, mid-cap, and large-cap companies. The firm employs fundamental analysis with a bottom-up stock picking approach to create its portfolios. It uses in-house research to make its investments.

Credit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank offers various products and services in capital markets, investment banking, structured finance, corporate banking, and international private banking. Its Coverage and Investment Banking division monitors and develops corporate and financial institutions in France and internationally. This division’s operations comprise advisory services and equity financing operations, including mergers and acquisitions, equity capital markets, corporate equity derivatives, and loan syndication, as well as Islamic banking. The company’s Equity Brokerage and Derivatives division involves in the trading, sale, and arbitrage of equity derivatives, index derivatives, simple or complex structured products, warrants, certificates, and indexed products. Its Fixed Income Markets division offers standard and structured market products, including commodities, debt and credit markets, foreign exchange, interest rate derivatives, and treasury for corporate and financial institutions. The company’s Structured Finance division consists of originating, structuring, and financing operations involving large-scale exports and investments in France and internationally, backed by collateral security, as well as complex and structured loans.

Nuveen Investments was founded in 1898 and is based in Chicago, Illinois. Nuveen Investments, Inc. is a privately owned investment manager. The firm provides its services to public pension funds, university endowments, foundations, insurers, high-net-worth individuals, and institutional investors. It manages closed-end exchange-traded funds, mutual funds, and hedge funds for its clients. The firm also manages equity, fixed income, and balanced portfolios. It invests in the public equity and fixed income markets across the globe. The firm primarily invests in growth stocks of large-cap companies and value stocks of multi-cap companies with a focus on large-cap and small-cap companies. It in invests in national and state-specific municipal securities to make its fixed income investments.

Moody's Corporation, through its subsidiaries, provides credit ratings and related research, data, and analytical tools; risk management software; and quantitative credit risk measures, credit portfolio management solutions, and training services in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Moody's Corporation operates in two segments, MIS and MA. The MIS segment publishes credit ratings on a range of debt obligations, including various corporate and governmental obligations, structured finance securities, and commercial paper programs, as well as the entities that issue such obligations in markets worldwide. This segment provides ratings in approximately 110 countries. Its ratings are disseminated via press releases to the public through a range of print and electronic media, including the Internet and real-time information systems, which is used by securities traders and investors.As of December 31, 2009, MIS had ratings relationships with approximately 12,000 corporate issuers and approximately 25,000 public finance issuers. Additionally, Moody's Corporation rated and monitored ratings on approximately 106,000 structured finance obligations. The MA segment develops a range of products and services that support the risk management activities of institutional participants in financial markets. These offerings include quantitative credit risk scores, credit processing software, economic research, analytical models, financial data, securities pricing and valuation software products, and specialized advisory and training services. Moody's Corporation also distributes investor-oriented research and data, including research on debt issuers, industry studies, and commentary on topical events developed by MIS as part of its rating process. Moody's Corporation was founded in 1900 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Landmark Ventures, Inc. was founded in 1995 and is based in New York, New York. Landmark Ventures, Inc. provides strategic and financial advisory services. The firm offers mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, private placements, capital raising, due diligence, and fund placement advisory services. Additionally, it provides business development, strategy formulation, and key account identification services. The firm’s clientele include ActionBase, Blinco Systems, Agentis, BioPetroClean, BoardVantage, Centrata, Inovis, Network Privacy, and Radware. It caters to IT, business services, and life sciences sectors.

TradeStation Group, Inc. operates as an online broker-dealer, an introducing broker, a futures commission merchant, and a trading technology company. TradeStation Group, Inc. product/service includes TradeStation, an electronic trading platform that enables traders to test and automate technical and fundamental trading strategies across various asset classes. TradeStation Group, Inc. also offers online brokerage services covering equities, equity and index options, financial and commodities futures, futures options, and spot forex transactions. TradeStation Group, Inc. also provides TradeStation electronic subscription service, which includes trading features and functions, streaming charts and quotes, streaming news, analytical charting, and various other features included in the TradeStation electronic trading platform other than trade order placement, and other trading or brokerage-related features or services. TradeStation Group serves the active trader and institutional trader markets. TradeStation Group, Inc. has strategic relationships with J.P. Morgan Clearing Corp.; R.J. OBrien & Associates, Inc.; and GAIN Capital Group, Inc. TradeStation Group, Inc. was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in Plantation, Florida.

GSC Group is a registered investment advisor specializing in complex credit-based alternative investment strategies. GSC Group is privately owned, has over 40 employees, and has offices in New Jersey and London. The Firm was founded in 1999 by Alfred C. Eckert III, the Company’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. Its senior executives and advisors are in many cases long-time colleagues who have worked together extensively at other institutions including private equity, distressed debt and investment banking firms. Through the combined experience of these individuals, GSC Group identifies sectors of the credit markets that it believes to be attractive. GSC Group generally invests its own capital alongside the capital of its clients.

Willis Stein & Partners, L.L.C. is a private equity firm specializing in acquiring and building middle market companies. The firm seeks to invest in growth capital, industry consolidations, buy-outs, build-ups, non-core assets or carve-outs from large companies, public-to-private transactions, management buyouts, and acquisitions of family-owned businesses. It also invests in public and private companies, subsidiaries or divisions of larger public and private companies, and companies undergoing generational changes of ownership. The firm generally invests in consumer services including food retailing, distribution and food service, consumer finance, and loan services, consumer-facing health and dental care, veterinary services, travel and leisure services, retail-based consumer services businesses, relocation and moving services, and consumer services and products-oriented distribution businesses; education including post-secondary education, healthcare certification and training.

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