Stonington Partners is a New York based private equity firm with more than $1 billion of capital under management on behalf of public and corporate pension funds, private endowments and other financial institutions. Stonington Partners was formed in 1994 out of a desire of its Partners to establish an independent entity following a decade of managing the investment activities of Merrill Lynch Capital Partners, Inc. (MLCP), which had $1.6 billion of equity capital under management.Stonington focuses on identifying attractive investments in middle market companies with values between $50 million and $500 million. Stonington typically invests from $25 million to $150 million of equity per company either at the initial acquisition, or over time through add-on investments. While receptive to opportunities in across industries, Stonington focuses on sectors in which its team has proven expertise.Stonington’s investment professionals have over 90 years of cumulative private equity experience that were gained through Stonington Partners and their prior affiliation with MLCP. These experiences cover the past 20+ years of private equity investing through various market cycles. In addition to their roles with the portfolio investments made through Stonington Partners, stonington investment professionals played direct roles in over 20 investments of MLCP.

Carter Financial Management was founded in 1976 by company president Bill Carter (also no relation to President Carter nor his beer-branding brother Billy). Former US President Jimmy Carter doesn't have anything to do with Carter Financial Management, but Carter Financial Management has a lot to do with dead presidents (if not live ones). Carter Financial Management company offers asset management, tax, legal, and philanthropic services to high-net-worth individuals, as well as families, professionals, and business owners. Affiliate Carter Advisory Services performs financial planning services for estates worth $2 million to $100 million, while brokerage services are carried out by Raymond James Financial.

Ampersand Ventures was founded in 1988 and is based in Wellesley, Massachusetts with an additional office in San Diego, California and Boston, Massachusetts. Ampersand Ventures is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in later stage growth equity investments in middle market companies. The firm typically invests in healthcare and industrial sector. Within Industrial sector, it focuses on product and process design software, instrumentation for the chemical processing and environmental industries. Within healthcare sector, the firm focuses on, life sciences, pharmaceuticals, and biotechnology sectors. It typically invests between $10 million and $50 million. The firm prefers to be the first and sole institutional investor in its portfolio companies.

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.

Scott & Stringfellow is the investment banking and brokerage subsidiary of regional bank BB&T, serving individual, corporate, and municipal clients. To consumers, Scott & Stringfellow, LLC offers brokerage services and investment products such as stocks, bonds, mutual funds, IRAs, annuities, and insurance. For high-net-worth clients with at least $100,000 to invest, it provides asset management, trust services, estate planning, and financial advice. BB&T Capital Markets is the company's investment banking and corporate and public finance division. Services include equity research, market making, and underwriting and trading securities. Scott & Stringfellow, LLC Bergen Capital division underwrites and distributes bonds.

With a heritage dating from the 1960s, PineBridge Investments is an independent multi-product investment adviser with US $83 billion* in assets under management. PineBridge Investments is an investment arm of American International Group, Inc. It specializes in distressed investments. The firm provides a platform for customized portfolio construction and client based servicing. The firm manages a diversified product line of alternative investments including: private equity investments, fund of funds, small to mid-market buyout funds, hedge funds, real estate investment funds and fixed income strategies. The Alternative Investment Group's Private Equity program provides equity and mezzanine financing for private and public companies at different stages of development. PineBridge Investments is based in New York, New York with additional offices in Ontario, Canada; Tokyo, Japan; Tiajin, China; Houston; Texas; and Manila; Philippines.

Dubin Clark & Company, founded in 1984, is a private equity investment firm whose sole activity is buying and building businesses in partnership with their management teams. Dubin Clark & Company long-term investors, dedicated to creating value by helping our companies grow. Dubin Clark do this through a coordinated approach that includes providing the capital necessary to support internal growth, completing add-on acquisitions to build market share, and helping to develop new strategies for the future, while protecting the independence, culture and values that made the company successful in the first place.

Lazard Ltd. company was founded in 1848 and is based in New York, New York. Lazard Ltd, together with its subsidiaries, operates as a financial advisory and asset management firm worldwide. Lazard Company's Financial Advisory segment offers a range of services regarding mergers and acquisitions and strategic advisory matters, restructurings and capital structure advisory services, capital raising, and various other corporate finance matters, which include evaluating potential acquisition targets, providing valuation analyses, evaluating and proposing financial and strategic alternatives, rendering opinions, assisting in the negotiating and closing the acquisition, and assisting in executing an acquisition by acting as a dealer-manager in transactions structured as a tender or exchange offer. This segment primarily serves consumer; financial institutions; financial sponsors; healthcare and life sciences; industrial; power and energy/infrastructure; real estate; and technology, media, and telecommunications industries.

Thompson Street Capital Partners was founded in 2000. Thompson Street Capital Partners is a private equity investment firm specializing in family businesses in transition, growth capital, recapitalizations, management buyouts, corporate divestitures, and take privates investments in middle market companies. The firm does not invest in start-up and early-stage companies. It prefers to make investments in companies engaged in the manufacturing, distribution, and services companies. The firm invests in niche manufacturers and value-added distributors, military and homeland security providers, business-to-business catalog companies, home healthcare distributors, clinical labs, and business process outsourcing providers. It invests in companies based in the North America region. The firm does not invest in the real estate sector. It seeks to invest between $7.5 million and $40 million in companies having revenues between $20 million and $200 million and EBITDA of $5 million and $15 million.

KRG Capital Partners, L.L.C was founded in 1996 and is based in Denver, Colorado. KRG Capital Partners, ("KRG Capital") is a private equity investment firm specializing in acquiring controlling interests in middle-market companies and growing them into significantly larger enterprises through the combination of internal growth and selective strategic add-on acquisitions. KRG Capital seeks investment opportunities where we can partner with existing management teams that are committed to building a best-in-class industry leader through industry consolidation. KRG Capital invests in companies with a history of operating profitability and strong growth prospects in specialty or "niche" manufacturing, distribution or service industries. In all cases, KRG Capital seeks to develop a growth and consolidation strategy that will clearly add value to the end customers of our portfolio companies by providing an enhanced product or service offering.

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