Haas Wheat & Partners is a Dallas-based private investment firm specializing in strategic equity investments and leveraged buyouts of middle market companies. Since 1984, the Firm has compiled an impressive track record investing in both private and public companies including such notable successes as Dr Pepper Company, The Seven-Up Company, A&W Brands, AMN Healthcare Services, Nebraska Book Company, and Sybron International Corporation. The Firm’s investments have been of varying sizes and have included both minority and control equity positions.

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.

Founders Jean Deleage, Garrett Gruener, and Guy Nohra had been partners at venture capital firm Burr, Egan, Deleage & Co., before they left in 1996 to form Alta Partners. Alta Partners offers companies an alternative to raising cash on their own. The firm invests venture capital primarily in life science companies; Alta Partners also invests in information technology ventures. It has backed more than 150 companies and has about $2 billion in committed capital. Alta Partners funds both early- and late-stage companies through stage-specific funds. Its portfolio has included such companies as Cellomics, Occam Networks, and Xelerated.

Engemann Asset Management was founded in 1969 and is based in San Francisco, California with an additional office in Los Angeles, California. Engemann Asset Management is a privately owned investment manager. The firm primarily provides its services to investment companies. It also caters to individuals, high net worth individuals, pension and profit sharing plans, charitable organizations, and corporations. The firm manages separate client-focused equity and balanced portfolios. It invests in the public equity and fixed income markets of the United States. The firm invests in value and growth stocks of micro cap, small cap, mid cap, and large cap companies with market capitalization of over $10 billion. It employs fundamental analysis with a bottom-up stock picking approach to create its portfolios. The firm benchmarks the performance of its equity portfolio against the Russell 1000 Growth Index and Russell 2000 Growth Index. It operates as a subsidiary of Virtus Investment Partners, Inc.

Harris & Harris Group has been investing in companies with proprietary technology since 1983. For most of Harris & Harris history, Harris & Harris were a very small firm that invested in and helped develop early stage businesses, particularly ones founded on proprietary intellectual property.Harris & Harris Group, Inc.® is an active investor committed to working side-by-side with the management of its portfolio companies to surmount the many challenges they confront. Harris & Harris assist Harris & Harris portfolio companies in attacking general strategic and operational problems, as well as assisting them with business and intellectual property strategy, executive recruiting, fundraising, preparing for compliance with Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and building collaborations with strategic partners.Harris & Harris believe in the classical early stage venture capital model and disciplines. Harris & Harris think that most technology-based start-ups can use all the help they can get from the diversified experiences, network of contacts, complimentary business networks, technical expertise, up-to-date customer connections and financial resources that a syndicate of professional venture capital investors can provide.Harris & Harris are looking for scientific, technological, business and execution excellence. Proprietary, well-protected and highly differentiated technology is a prerequisite. However, Harris & Harris are eager to invest in companies with market-centric strategies that seek to define and dominate large product categories. But above all, Harris & Harris back passionate entrepreneurs who want to change the world with their nanotechnology-enabled products.

Investec Limited is an international banking group that provides a range of financial products and services. The Company is organized into five business divisions: Private Client Activities, Capital Markets, Investment Banking, Asset Management and Property Activities. In addition, its head office provides certain group-wide integrating functions, such as risk management, information technology, finance, investor relations, marketing, human resources and organizational development. It is also responsible for the Company’s central funding, as well as other activities, such as trade finance.

RJO is the largest independent futures brokerage in the United States. A privately owned futures commission merchant, RJO is also one of the oldest futures brokerage firms, dating back to 1914. RJO is a full clearing member of: the Chicago Mercantile Exchange Group (founding member of CME); Intercontinental Exchange (ICE); NYSE Liffe; and the Chicago Climate Exchange. RJO services a global network of more than 297 introducing brokers and some of the world's largest financial, industrial and agricultural institutions.RJO offers the latest in order entry technology coupled with 24-hour execution and clearing on every futures exchange worldwide. RJO services a nationwide network of Introducing Broker (IB) offices, as well as some of the world's largest financial, industrial and agricultural institutions.

MEAG is a major asset management force in the European financial sector with responsibility for round EUR 198 billion (31 March 2010). We are also the asset manager for the Munich Re Group. We invest in securities, real estate and funds, offering our expertise to both institutional and private investors. MEAG are the ideal partner for both private and institutional investors, bundling extensive know-how in all key asset classes under one roof and ensuring that your money is in good hands. MEAG compile fund, security and real-estate portfolios based on your earnings specifications. MEAG size and the volume of funds under MEAG management enable us to offer you highly competitive conditions for the reinvestment and security of your investments.

Counsel Corporation seeks to acquire real estate and controlling stakes in a variety of established companies with stable management and growth prospects. It targets the real estate, communications, consumer goods, and other sectors in Canada and the US. Counsel Corporation company owns C2 Global Technologies and Fleetwood Fine Furniture, which manufactures custom case goods for upscale hotels. Counsel's real estate holdings throughout Canada include more than a dozen retail properties that contain more than 1 million sq. ft. of leasable space. Its private equity arm, Knights Bridge Capital Corporation, makes investments up to $10 million in small and mid-market companies in North America.

Franklin Resources, Inc. (Franklin) is an investment management company. The Company is a holding company that, together with its various subsidiaries (collectively, the Company), is referred to as Franklin Templeton Investments, a global investment management organization offering investment choices under the Franklin, Templeton, Mutual Series, Bissett, Fiduciary and Darby brand names. In its primary business and operating segment, investment management and related services, it provides services to investment funds and institutional, high net-worth and separately managed accounts (collectively, its sponsored investment products) in the United States and internationally. In its secondary business and operating segment, banking/finance, it provides clients with select retail banking, private banking and consumer lending services through its bank subsidiaries.

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