Assante Wealth Management provides a range of financial services to Canadians. The company has a network of about 800 advisors serving approximately 300,000 clients in Canada. It provides access to financial products and services such as tax-free savings accounts, mutual funds, stocks, bonds, insurance, cash management, and discount brokerage. Established in 1995, Assante Wealth Management has more than $20 billion in assets under management. The company became a subsidiary of mutual funds powerhouse CI Financial in 2003 after spinning off its US operations to shareholders as Loring Ward International.

Sequoia Capital nurtures the seeds that grow into the giants of the tech industry. The venture capital firm, which backed little acorns such as Apple, Oracle, Yahoo!, and Cisco Systems, fertilizes some of Silicon Valley's most promising seedlings. Other notable investments have included Web search engine Google, content management software maker Agile, and Internet darling YouTube. Investing up to $50 million per transaction, Sequoia Capital has funded more than 300 companies in the US, China, India, and Israel. Globally it manages nearly $10 billion in funds.

Crosspoint Venture Partners was founded in 1970 and is based in Woodside, California. Crosspoint Venture Partners is no longer investing. It is a venture capital firm specializes in investments in early stage companies. The firm prefers to invest in companies engaged in e-business services; and software and broadband infrastructure industries. It invests in companies based in the Western United States. The firm invests up to $40 million per project and can also provide up to an additional $10 million in follow-on financings. It takes a board seat and prefers an equity participation of 20 percent or more in its portfolio companies.

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.

LaBranche & Co Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates as a registered broker-dealer. It operates as market-maker in options, futures, and exchange-traded funds (ETF) traded on various exchanges. LaBranche & Co Inc. operates in two segments, Market-Making and Institutional Brokerage. The Market-Making segment operates as a market maker in equity, index and ETF options, ETFs, and futures on the NYSE Amex Exchange, the NYSE Arca Exchange, the New York Board of Trade, the Philadelphia Stock Exchange, and the Chicago Board Options Exchange; broker-dealer registered with the United Kingdom’s Financial Securities Authority; market maker for ETFs traded on the London Stock Exchange, and the Euroex and Euronext Exchanges; broker-dealer with Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission; and market maker for ETFs in Hong Kong, as well as engages in hedging transactions in Asia. The Institutional Brokerage segment provides securities execution, fixed income, and professional trading brokerage services to institutional investors and professional traders; and operates as a market maker in over-the-counter, bulletin board, and pink sheet securities. LaBranche & Co Inc. was founded in 1924 and is based in New York, New York.

Turbodyne Technologies, Inc. develops patented electrically powered air movement and propulsion components that are engineered to promote lower fuel consumption and address higher emission standards for hybrid, gas and diesel internal combustion engines. The patented TurboPacTM design reduces diesel pollution, eliminates turbo-lag in gas and diesel engines and increases fuel economy through both engine downsizing for hybrid, gas and diesel applications as well as low-rpm fuel burn optimization for diesel trucks and busses. The TurboFlow™ design provides computer-controlled, variable high pressure, high volume air movement in a small, lightweight, low power package for a variety of applications from inflatable boat inflation and HVAC air movement to forced air induction for internal combustion engines.

Shenzhen Expressway Company Limited was established on 30 December 1996. It is principally engaged in the investment, construction, operation and management of toll highways and roads. The Company aims at enhancing the ability of wealth creation by improving the quality of operation, obtaining reasonable returns through providing high-quality service to the society, and achieving satisfaction of customers, employees, shareholders and related parties by balancing their interests, so as to foster the Company’s sustainable development. Currently, the Company will maintain its market orientation, focus on the expressway industry, actively explore and engage in new investments in the industry for a synergistic growth in both its scale and efficiency.

Monticello Capital was formed in 1997 and organized as a Virginia limited liability company in January 1998 at the height of the technology-driven expansion of the US economy. The location of its headquarters in northern Virginia, in the Washington DC metropolitan area, positions the investment bank at the center of the east coast’s high technology region. Monticello Capital’s office in New York City operated from 2003 to 2008. This firm is a specialized or “boutique” investment bank, principally focused on serving companies in high-growth mode.Monticello Capital’s clients have always spanned a wide range -- from development stage technology companies to some of the world’s largest and most prominent international conglomerates and financial institutions. Monticello Capital experienced extraordinary growth and financial harvests during the economic growth that the US enjoyed in the late 1990s and into the new century. The firm experienced growth in revenues, profitability, and marginal profitability in each year from inception through 2008, and has been profitable in every year of its corporate existence, including during the post-9/11 recession and the severe financial industry downturn in 2008-2010.

Pender Financial can drop some serious money on technology. The Canadian merchant bank invests in emerging growth companies, specifically British Columbia firms in high tech fields. Pender Financial Group has sunk about $6 million in what it considers undervalued companies that need some management guidance. One of its biggest money makers is ActiveState Software, which creates open-source software for the Perl, Python, and Tcl programming and scripting languages. Other investments include bio tech venture capitalist Bio FutureFund, high-end marine lighting firm Carmanah, and Web host Radiant Communications.

Redbus Group (Redbus) is a UK based acquisition vehicle, which seeks to acquire small cap. businesses or business assets that require restructuring or re-financing and return them to profitability. Its roots are in the media business though it does not operate exclusively in this sector. Redbus came into existence as an offshoot of Redbus Film Distribution which was founded in 1997 as a film distribution company. Redbus Film Distribution had rapidly established itself as one of the largest and most profitable film distributors in the UK. In late 2000 it was sold for $23 million to Helkon Media AG.The key management, all from investment banking or professional backgrounds remained with Redbus Group after this transaction and segued Redbus’ focus towards acquiring media businesses and assets that were either undervalued, in distress or in need of restructuring. Employing an entrepreneurial yet disciplined approach, Redbus, either in partnership with other financial institutions or alone, is constantly looking for opportunities to leverage off its capital, market knowledge and management resources.The combination of Redbus’ intricate understanding of the corporate debt and securities market and its experience of managing businesses is both unusual and increasingly relevant in today’s financial markets. Redbus was the fastest growing company in the UK in 2003 and ranked number one in the Sunday Times Virgin Atlantic Fast Track 100. Redbus Group is a UK based private company and the main operating vehicle of Simon Franks who is both the company’s chairman and largest single shareholder.

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