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.

Providence Equity Partners LLC was founded in 1989. Providence Equity Partners LLC is a private equity investment firm specializing in financing growth capital, recapitalizations of family-owned businesses, leveraged buyouts, and take-privates investments. The firm also provides debt investment management, and capital market and debt structuring advice through its capital markets group, with respect to its portfolio companies. It typically invests in media, entertainment, communications, and information sectors with a focus on broadcast, broadband, cable television, music, film, wireline, wireless, newspaper, book, magazine and directory publishing, digital media, print media, network television, cable television content and distribution, television and radio broadcasting, satellites, fixed line and mobile telephony systems, local exchange carriers, marketing services, business outsourcing providers, and Internet infrastructure sectors. The firm typically invests in companies based across the world. It primarily invests between $250 million and $2500 million in its portfolio companies. The firm typically leads its investments and prefers to take a board seat in its portfolio companies.

Sun Capital Partners, Inc. is a leading private investment firm focused on leveraged buyouts, equity, debt, and other investments in market-leading companies that can benefit from its in-house operating professionals and experience. Sun Capital affiliates invest in companies which typically have the number one or two market position in their industry, long-term competitive advantages, and significant barriers to entry. Sun Capital has offices in Boca Raton, Los Angeles and New York, and affiliates with offices in London, Frankfurt, Paris, Luxembourg, Shanghai and Shenzhen.Sun Capital affiliates have invested in more than 230 companies worldwide since Sun Capital’s inception in 1995, with combined sales in excess of $40 billion and more than 170,000 employees. On a consolidated basis, Sun Capital's affiliated portfolio companies would rank in the top 100 of Fortune Magazine's listing of the 500 largest companies in the United States.Industries targeted for investment are broad and diverse, with no particular industry excluded from consideration. Investments have included companies in paper and packaging, food and beverages, metals and mining, automotive after-market parts, consumer products, financial services, healthcare, media and communications, building products, telecommunications, technology, retailing and catalogs, restaurants, manufacturing and industrial, among others.

FX Solutions, LLC was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Saddle River, New Jersey. As of February 5, 2008, FX Solutions, LLC operates as a subsidiary of City Index Holdings, Ltd. FX Solutions, LLC operates as an online foreign exchange brokerage company. It offers Global Trading System (GTS), a mobile Forex trading platform that provides trading and risk management services. FX Solutions company offers institutional services, including white label, introducing broker, institutional trading, and API solutions. It serves retail clients, white label partners, and institutional trading partners.

Man Group plc, through its subsidiaries, engages in the structuring, sale, and distribution of alternative investment products and solutions. It also operates as a futures broker. Man Investments Man Investments, the Asset Management division, is a major provider in the alternative investment industry. It provides innovative products and tailor-made solutions to private and institutional investors. Through its core investment managers - AHL, RMF, Glenwood and Man Global Strategies - Man has succeeded in developing leadership in hedge funds and has interests in other asset classes. In its core hedge fund asset class, Man offers funds of hedge funds, structured, style and single manager products. Man Investments’ Core Managers Man’s core investment managers form the foundation of the asset management business. They provide the investment content for portfolios and are responsible for portfolio construction, asset allocation decisions and risk management. AHL AHL was founded in 1983. The Company implements two main managed futures investment programmes - the AHL Diversified Programme and the AHL Institutional Programme. These programmes are quantitative and primarily directional in nature, meaning they seek to identify and take advantage of upward and downward price trends. Trading takes place around-the-clock and real time price information is used to respond to price moves across a diverse range of global markets encompassing stock indices, bonds, currencies, short-term interest rates and commodities.

U.S. Global Investors was founded in 1968 and is based in San Antonio, Texas.U.S. Global Investors, Inc. is a publicly owned investment manager. The firm primarily provides its services to investment companies. It also manages accounts for other pooled investment vehicles, individuals, and corporations. The firm manages family of equity and fixed income mutual funds for its clients. It invests in the public equity, fixed income, gold, and natural resources markets across the globe. The firm invests in growth and core stocks to make its equity investments. For its fixed income securities, the firm invests in short and intermediate municipal debt, and U.S. government money market.

Teacher Retirement System of Texas was founded in 1937 and is based in Austin, Texas. Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS) is a retirement plan sponsor. The firm provides retirement and related benefits for those employed by the public schools, colleges, and universities supported by the State of Texas. It also provides a health insurance program for public school retirees. The firm makes its investments in the public equity markets across the globe and in the public fixed income and alternative markets of the United States. It also invests in exchange trade funds, closed-ended funds, REITs, and private placement equity-linked notes. The firm invests in stocks of small-cap, mid-cap, and large-cap companies with a minimum market capitalization of $50 million. Through its equity portfolio, it also invests in preferred stocks, convertible bonds, rights, warrants, units, and depository receipts that trade publicly pursuant to Rule 144A of the Securities and Exchange Commission. It employs a mix of active and passive strategies to create its equity portfolio mix. The firm benchmarks the performance of its equity portfolios against the MSCI AC World Index, Russell 1000 Growth Index, Russell 1000 Value Index, Russell 2000 Index, MSCI EAFE Index, and MSCI EM Index.

Casa de Bolsa Finamex brings a variety of financial and investment services under a single roof. Formerly Grupo Financiero Finamex, the company provides brokerage and financial advice for individual and institutional investors from offices in Mexico and New York City. Casa de Bolsa Finamex operations include trading and administering variable and fixed-income securities, securities trading in capital markets, corporate financing, currency trading, and financial consultancy. Casa de Bolsa Finamex also operates investment companies. Casa de Bolsa Finamex was founded in 1974 and has been a US broker/dealer since 1992.

Wendel Investissement SA invests in the industrial and service, and health sectors. The company supports entrepreneurial teams by monitoring operations on a regular basis, helps define ambitious strategies, and provides the financing needed to ensure the success of the companies in which it has invested. The company principally invests in a relatively limited number of significant equity holdings in industry, such as products and systems for electrical installations, automotive components and systems, industrial abrasives, oil exploration and real estate; services, such as conformity assessment and certification, classified advertising and multimedia services, IT services and consulting, telecommunications; and healthcare, such as medical diagnostics, food quality testing, allergy laboratory. Industry Legrand Group: The Legrand Group is a global specialist in products and systems for electrical installations and information networks in residential properties, service facilities and industry. The Group offers various solutions, integrating: the distribution of electrical energy and of data; remote control systems and connections; security systems for people and property; solutions for buildings and industrial processes.

Pond Venture Partners, known for its hands-on management style, was founded by chairman Charles Irving (based in Europe) and CEO Richard Irving (based in California). Pond Venture Partners invests in high-tech companies from both sides of the pond. The venture capital firm targets early-stage communications infrastructure companies based in Europe, including the UK. Pond Venture Partners is focused on funding startups developing networking hardware and software, optical components, and wireless products. Its portfolio includes chip technology manufacturer picoChip, digital content management products supplier SealedMedia, and software integrator Transitive Corporation.

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