Allegis Capital was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California with additional offices in Santa Monica, California and San Francisco, California. Allegis Capital is a venture capital firm specializing in investments in seed and early-stage startup companies. The firm also provides incubation services. It typically invests in developing enabling technology and infrastructure, which serve emerging information technology markets with a focus on enabling hardware devices, enterprise software solutions, broadband and wireless delivery technologies, wired and wireless communications, digital media and commerce enablers, internet delivery platforms and services, security, and information services. The firm prefers to invest in the western region of United States and selected investments in Asia. It seeks to invest between $3 million and $5 million in its first investment to acquire an initial 20 % ownership stake in companies and provides capital support for subsequent financings. The firm typically acts as the lead investor and will partner with other venture capital firms. It prefers a board seat on its portfolio companies.

Focused on the growth sectors of the economy, ThinkEquity provides research, equity financing, M&A advisory, institutional sales and trading, wealth management and asset management services to institutional investors, corporate and private clients, venture capitalists, entrepreneurs and financial sponsors. As a Panmure Gordon company, ThinkEquity accesses the combined financial expertise of professionals based in San Francisco, New York, Boston, Chicago, Minneapolis, London, Liverpool and Geneva. Research-driven, ThinkPanmure remain true to ThinkPanmure founding principles: the power of growth, focus, deep domain expertise and people.

Nomura Securities International has its eye on fixed income, and we're not talking Social Security. The US-based division of Nomura Holdings, a top Japanese brokerage, provides securities research and trading, asset management, and capital markets services to individual, institutional, corporate, and government clients. Nomura Securities International, Inc. is a leading seller of Japanese equities in the US. Nomura Securities International, Inc. fixed income division underwrites and trades government bonds and derivatives. Nomura Securities International, Inc. ceased trading mortgage-related securities in 2007. Nomura Securities International opened its first US office in New York in 1927, and has expanded its reach to entail all of North and South America.

Ladenburg Thalmann Financial Services Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides investment banking, equity research, institutional sales and trading, independent brokerage, advisory, and asset management services in the United States. Ladenburg Thalmann Financial Services Inc. offers general investment banking and corporate finance consulting services; underwriting of public equity and debt offerings, including specified purpose acquisition companies underwriting; placement of private debt and equity offerings; merger, acquisition, and divestiture advisory services; rendering fairness and solvency opinions; and financial valuations. Ladenburg Thalmann Financial Services Inc. also provides investment consulting services, private investment management, retirement plan sponsor services, alternative investments, and architect program, as well as an asset management program, which provides centralized management of mutual fund and exchange-traded fund portfolios based on asset allocation models. In addition, Ladenburg Thalmann Financial Services Inc. offers broker-dealer and investment advisory services to the independent registered representative community. Further, Ladenburg Thalmann Financial Services Inc. reviews and analyzes general market conditions and other industry groups; issues written reports on companies, with recommendations on specific actions to buy, sell, or hold; furnishes information to retail and institutional customers; and responds to inquires from customers and account executives. Ladenburg Thalmann Financial Services Inc. serves middle market and emerging growth companies, and high net worth individuals. Ladenburg Thalmann Financial Services Inc. was founded in 1876 and is based in Miami, Florida.

Ansbacher was founded in 1894 and acquired by QNB in 2004. Ansbacher Group channels money through the right channels. Operating as Ansbacher Banking Group, the company is the wealth management and private banking arm of Qatar National Bank (QNB). The group offers a wealth of financial services options, including specialist and private banking, financial and estate planning, and fiduciary and trust services. It also has a unit that facilitates corporate yacht ownership and yacht registration. The company operates in Switzerland, the Bahamas, the Channel Islands, and the United Arab Emirates; it pulled out of the UK in 2009.

Versant Venture is a leading healthcare-focused venture capital firm specializing in early-stage investments in medical devices, biotechnology and pharmaceuticals, healthcare services, and healthcare information technology. The firm, founded in 1999, consists of a seasoned team of twelve managing directors with more than 130 years of venture capital investing experience and more than 150 years of operating experience. Versant Ventures currently manages over $1.6 billion in committed capital having recently raised its fourth fund in July 2008, and is currently managing over 75 companies in its portfolio.

Research Corporation Technologies in Tucson, Ariz., is a technology investment and management company that provides early-stage funding and development for promising biomedical companies and technologies. RCT focuses on technology investments with origins from universities and research institutions worldwide. Founded in 1987, the company carries on a vision chartered in 1912 by Frederick Gardner Cottrell, a university professor and inventor who championed the transfer of academic innovation to commercial use. RCT has assets of more than $200 million to advance technology development through venture investment, partnerships and special licensing programs.To support these programs, RCT has staff in its corporate office in Tucson, Ariz., and on the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts. RCT also has an affiliate company in the United Kingdom, Cambridge Research Biolventures (CRB), and an alliance with Start-Up Australia in Sydney.RCT employs investment professionals with expertise in the life sciences, development of medical devices and therapeutics, and financial management. RCT professionals support all technology development activities, including managing and coordinating new company formation, filing patent applications and infringement protection, negotiating licenses and other agreements, patents and literature searches and marketing support.RCT's unparalleled experience and expertise, as well as its financial resources and partnerships, make a powerful combination that gives important new companies and technologies their best chance for commercial success.

Terra Nova Royalty Corp. operated in two reportable segments: industrial plant technology, equipment and service business and indirect royalty interest in the Wabush iron ore mine. The industrial plant technology, equipment and service segment requires a variety of production and marketing strategies. The royalty interest consists of a mining sub-lease of the lands, which includes the Wabush iron ore mine. The Wabush mine operation includes the Scully iron ore mine near Wabush in the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador, a pellet plant and port facilities at Point Noire, Quebec and integrated rail facilities. Terra Nova is primarily engaged in the industrial plant technology, equipment and service business. It supplies technologies, engineering and equipment for cement processing.

Founded in the 1920s to develop hydroelectric power, Power Corporation of Canada now generates cash, not electricity. Power Corporation of Canada is an investment holding company. As of December 31, 2009, the Company held 66.3% interest in Power Financial Corporation (Power Financial). Power Financial holds interests in the financial services industry, through its controlling interests in Great-West Lifeco Inc. (Lifeco) and IGM Financial Inc. (IGM). Power Financial also holds, together with the Frere group of Belgium, an interest in Pargesa Holding SA (Pargesa). As of December 31, 2009, Pargesa’s portfolio was composed of interests in various sectors, including primarily oil, gas and chemicals through Total S.A. (Total); energy and energy services through GDF Suez; water and waste services through Suez Environnement Company (Suez Environnement); industrial minerals through Imerys S.A. (Imerys); cement and building materials through Lafarge S.A. (Lafarge), and wines and spirits through Pernod Ricard S.A. (Pernod Ricard).

ITEX Corporation was founded in 1901. ITEX Corporation, through its independent licensed broker and franchise network, operates an exchange for cashless business transactions (the ‘Marketplace’) in the United States and Canada. The company’s business services and payment systems enable member businesses (‘members’) to trade goods and services without exchanging cash. These products and services are instead exchanged for ITEX dollars which can only be redeemed in the Marketplace (ITEX dollars). It administers the Marketplace and acts as a third-party record-keeper for its members’ transactions. Marketplace Transactions The Marketplace provides a forum for members to purchase from and sell their products and services to other members using the currency ‘ITEX dollars’ instead of the U.S. dollars (USD). An ITEX dollar is an accounting unit used to record the value of transactions as determined by the members in the Marketplace. The company issues, on a case by case basis, ITEX dollar credit lines to certain members. Members with positive ITEX dollar account balances or those within their ITEX dollar credit line may use available ITEX dollars to purchase products or services from other members and may sell their products or services to other members. Those members with negative ITEX dollar account balances are obligated to sell their products or services to other Marketplace members to offset their negative account balance.

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