Argosy Private Equity business, the investment firm focuses on buyouts, recapitalizations, and financing of middle-market firms in the eastern half of the US with annual sales between $15 million and $100 million. The company prefers to invest in smaller firms with room for growth, and it provides them not only with capital, but operational support and strategic planning. Typical investments range from $3 million to $9 million per transaction. Its portfolio contains stakes in some 35 companies, mainly in the manufacturing, industrial electronics, and industrial and business services sectors.

PGGM provides income protection for everyone in the healthcare and social work sector. PGGM aims to be a committed, dependable, responsible and ethical partner for all employees, offering income-protection products and services that perfectly meet their needs. PGGM also administers collective pension schemes for the healthcare and social work sector. As a cooperative, PGGM is a non-profit organisation that enables its members to derive maximum benefit from all its products and services. PGGM’s largest client is Pensioenfonds Zorg en Welzijn, which has pension assets of around 80 billion euros. Pensioenfonds Zorg en Welzijn determines policy and PGGM manages its assets and administers its pension scheme.

iD Ventures America, LLC (formerly known as Acer Technology Ventures America, LLC) is a venture capital business unit of iD SoftCapital Group, a group established by Acer founder Stan Shih and former Acer senior management to offer consulting services, and asset and venture fund management. Our mission at iD Ventures America is to facilitate the Intellectual Development of the New Economy through venture investing.iD Ventures America has been active in the venture community since 1998. Currently we have a total of $385 million under management with $85 million in active investments through our latest funds: iD6 Fund established in 2005; iD8 Fund established in 2008; and our most recent fund, iD5 Annex Fund. These funds are invested by Acer and other private investors. Our former funds, comprised of $300 million, have been fully invested into North America and Asia based companies: The Acer Technology Venture Fund and IP Fund One. ATVF and IPF One are invested by Acer affiliated companies and executives, as well as external institutional limited partners.

Quest for Growth NV is a Belgium-based closed-end investment company that focuses on European technology-based growth companies engaged in various sectors, such as pharmaceuticals and biotechnologies, healthcare equipment and services, information technology, software, semiconductors, energy and materials, among others. Quest Company invests in growth companies with the objective of converting capital gains into tax-free income through the Privak structure, an investment vehicle specially tailored to provide a framework for investments in private equity and in growth companies. The largest part of the Company's portfolio is invested in companies listed on European stock exchanges and other regulated markets.

Beecken Petty O'Keefe & Company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. Beecken Petty O'Keefe & Company is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in middle market buyouts, recapitalizations, and growth stage transactions. Within recapitalization and buyouts, the firm seeks to invest in small to medium sized companies and focuses on leveraged acquisitions of corporate subsidiaries, recapitalizations of founder-owned and operated entities, and management-led acquisitions of independent companies. It typically invests in healthcare industry with a focus on specialty distribution including alternate site (non-hospital) and pharmaceutical niches; provider and payor outsourcing including contract management, staffing, utilization and disease management, billing, collections, and other financial service providers.

Founded in 1889, Bank of Bermuda was bought by British banking giant HSBC in 2004. The Bank of Bermuda Limited provides fund administration, trust, custody, asset management, and banking services globally. The bank operates through four divisions: Global Fund Services, Private Client Services, Corporate Banking, and Community Banking. The Global Fund Services division provides fund administration products, banking, and global custody services, including hedge funds, emerging market funds, funds of funds, and private equity funds to investment industry. The Private Client Services division provides private trust and investment services to high net worth individuals and families. The Corporate Banking division provides cash management services to offshore insurance management companies, multinational corporations, and local Bermuda-based companies.

Rathbone Brothers was founded in 1742 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom. Rathbone Brothers Plc, through its subsidiaries, provides investment management services and related professional advice to private individuals, trustees, charities, pension funds, and the professional advisers. It offers discretionary investment management, unit trusts, tax planning, trust and company management, pension advice, and private banking services. The company also provides ethical investment and stock broking advisory services, as well as offers taxation services, such as compliance and planning; probate services; trust services, such as trust formation, administration, accounting, and provision of trustees and protectors; and corporate and family office services. In addition, it offers pension advisory, SIPP administration, financial planning, and offshore fund management services. Rathbone Brothers company has operations in the United Kingdom, Jersey, Switzerland, the British Virgin Islands, and Singapore.

Roark Capital Group was named after Howard Roark, the protagonist in Ayn Rand's classic The Fountainhead. For much of the book, Roark's unwavering commitment to his style of architecture put him at odds with the people in power and thus the people who influenced public opinion. While many of his peers altered their architectural designs to gain public approval and fame, Roark was always true to himself and his work, refusing to succumb to conventional wisdom. By the end of the book, the former architectural elite are exposed as frauds, and Howard Roark is discovered as a true visionary.Integrity, according to Ayn Rand, is commitment to one's own thinking and one's own mind. If a man sincerely believes a claim to be true, then he must hold to this belief even though society opposes him. He must think independently and form values that he never sacrifices. Howard Roark's life exemplified the true nature of this independence and integrity.Roark Capital Group's investment style and business philosophy is meant to emulate the life of Howard Roark. Roark Capital hope to invest in outstanding companies in partnership with exceptional operating executives, regardless of conventional wisdom or the latest trend. Further, Roark Capital Group will support its portfolio companies and its management partners, in good times and bad, as long as the fundamental long-term opportunity remains intact. In the end, this patient, independent approach, will generate superior risk adjusted investment returns for Roark Capital Group.

The Sacramento Valley Board of Trade (SVBT) provides risk management and related collections information and services for member businesses in the food, beverage, and media industries. Founded in 1980 by sister firm Northern California Collections Service, SVBT helps clients prevent debt losses by compiling and distributing monthly reports containing total due, past due, and returned check information on accounts within the industries. Members can also submit and review credit alerts via the board's Web site.

Merchant House Group, which formerly provided support services to companies in the transportation industry, now offers corporate finance and investment advisory services. Merchant House Group Plc underwent a reorganization in 2006 after two straight years of losses. Merchant House Group now has six subsidiaries: Merchant Capital, Aldermary Secretaries, Merchant House Securities, Merchant House Finance, Merchant Legal, and Merchant Wealth Management, which was formed in January 2008. Merchant House Finance arranges leasing for private jets, race horses, and yachts. All of Merchant House Group Plc subsidiaries operate on a revenue-sharing basis.

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