VantagePoint Management company (aka VantagePoint Venture Partners) provides long-term capital to primarily technology and health care companies ranging in development from start-up to pre-IPO. VantagePoint is organized around its target markets: information technology, health care, clean technology (which focuses on the application of technology to energy, water, and materials), and Asia. The firm has a dedicated clean tech investment team and oversees one of the largest active venture capital efforts in the sector with more than $1 billion in investments.

Atlantic Trust Group helps the fabulously wealthy stay that way. A subsidiary of mutual fund manager Invesco, Atlantic Trust Group company oversees more than $15 billion of assets under management for wealthy individuals and families, as well as institutional investors such as foundations and endowments. Atlantic Trust Group company offers investment management products and services such as financial counseling, equity and fixed-income investments, trust and custody services, and tax and estate planning. Atlantic Trust Company also provides access to alternative investments such as hedge funds and private equity. Atlantic Trust has about a dozen offices in cities across the US.

Gemina was established in 1961, under the name of Compagnia Generale Alimentare S.r.l., as a holding company operating in the food sector. During the 1970's, the company took on its current name and started operating as an industrial holding company, and in 1981 was listed on the Milan Stock Exchange. During the '80s, the company launched an investment program in the financial and merchant-banking sectors. In 1996, the company started progressively reducing its financial sector investments, which were no longer considered strategic, and redirected its energies, mainly focusing on the industrial sector. In March 1997, Gemina's partial division, with the establishment of the beneficiary HdP, started gaining effectiveness. Indeed, the shareholdings in the industrial companies present in Gemina's investment portfolio were transferred to HdP. Gemina then concluded the divestment of its financial assets, direct to acquire, by launching, in the second half of 1998, a new investment program:significant quotas of shareholdings in companies, operating in well-established businesses and capable of ensuring a suitable level of soundness to the company portfolio and in medium/small sized companies operating in the production of goods and services and with good development prospects. Starting from 2000 Gemina focuses its activities on directing and controlling its subsidiaries. In the same period Gemina takes part in the privatization of ADR (managing company of Roma’s airports) and develops its core business in the area of airports’ infrastructures. In the meantime Gemina divests its shareholdings in the other subsidiaries and today it holds the 95,76% of ADR shares’ capital that is the most important asset of Gemina’s group.

Stonington Partners is a New York based private equity firm with more than $1 billion of capital under management on behalf of public and corporate pension funds, private endowments and other financial institutions. Stonington Partners was formed in 1994 out of a desire of its Partners to establish an independent entity following a decade of managing the investment activities of Merrill Lynch Capital Partners, Inc. (MLCP), which had $1.6 billion of equity capital under management.Stonington focuses on identifying attractive investments in middle market companies with values between $50 million and $500 million. Stonington typically invests from $25 million to $150 million of equity per company either at the initial acquisition, or over time through add-on investments. While receptive to opportunities in across industries, Stonington focuses on sectors in which its team has proven expertise.Stonington’s investment professionals have over 90 years of cumulative private equity experience that were gained through Stonington Partners and their prior affiliation with MLCP. These experiences cover the past 20+ years of private equity investing through various market cycles. In addition to their roles with the portfolio investments made through Stonington Partners, stonington investment professionals played direct roles in over 20 investments of MLCP.

RidgeWorth Capital Management, Inc was founded in 1984 and is based in Atlanta, Georgia with additional offices in Nashville, Tennessee; Orlando, Florida; Richmond, Virginia; Washington, District of Columbia; and Chattanooga, Tennessee. RidgeWorth Capital Management, Inc. is a privately owned investment manager. The firm primarily provides its services to pension and profit sharing plans, charitable organizations, corporations, state or municipal government entities, high net worth individuals, banking or thrift institutions, investment companies, endowments and foundations, and other pooled investment vehicles. It manages separate client focused equity, fixed income, and balanced portfolios. The firm also manages mutual funds for its clients. It invests in the public equity and fixed income markets across the globe, typically in the United States. The firm also invests in ADRs. It invests in stocks of large-cap, mid-cap, and small-cap companies. The firm also invests in municipal and corporate bonds for its fixed income investments.

BB BIOTECH AG is a Switzerland-based investment company, which principal activity is to invest in companies active in the biotechnology industry. BB BIOTECH AG invests mainly in companies operating in such sectors as oncology, cardiovascular diseases, infectious diseases and autoimmune diseases. As of December 31, 2009, the Company’s portfolio comprised 23 companies, including Actelion, Gilead, Celgene, Genentech, Biogen Idec, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Elan, Basilea Pharmaceuticals and Roche Holding GS, among others. The investments are held through its wholly owned subsidiaries, which include Biotech Focus NV, Biotech Invest NV, Biotech Target NV and Biotech Growth NV.

The Adams Express Company was founded in 1840 and is based in Baltimore, Maryland. The Adams Express Company (the Fund) is a closed-end investment company. The Fund is an internally managed fund, whose investment objectives are preservation of capital, the attainment of reasonable income from investments and an opportunity for capital appreciation. The Fund invests in various sectors, which includes consumer, energy, financial, healthcare, industrials, information technology, materials, telecom services and utilities. The Fund invests in common stocks and convertible securities, non-controlled affiliate, short-term investments and securities lending collateral.

Hercules Technology Growth Capital, Inc. was founded in December 2003 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California with additional offices across United States. Hercules Technology Growth Capital, Inc. (HTGC) is a specialty finance company that provides debt and equity growth capital to technology-related companies at all stages of development from seed and emerging growth to expansion and established stages of development, which include select publicly listed companies and lower middle market companies. The Company primarily finances privately-held companies backed by venture capital and private equity firms and also may finance certain select publicly-traded companies that lack access to public capital or are sensitive to equity ownership dilution. HTGC sources its investments through its principal office located in Silicon Valley, as well as its additional offices in the Boston and Boulder.

Gruppo, Levey & Co. (GLC) is a leading independent private investment banking firm specializing in the consumer, industrial, media, multi-channel retail & marketing services sectors. GLC provides M&A services; capital and debt financing raises as well as restructuring services; it advises companies, debtors, trustees and special committees on restructurings, recapitalizations and corporate reorganizations; and provides fairness opinions, due diligence and valuation services.Over the past 15 years, GLC has served as a trusted advisor to entrepreneurs, financial sponsors, corporate boards and family business owners in transactions encompassing every segment of the direct marketing industry, including retailers selling in all channels, B2B marketers, targeted media firms, specialty publishers, database/analytics companies and online/lead generation businesses. GLC is based in New York City.

Prism Capital Corporation was founded in 1999. Prism Capital Corporation is a private equity firm specializing in growth finance, recapitalizations and buyouts. It is a Small Business Investment Company (SBIC). The firm invests through its funds. The Prism Opportunity Fund, L.P. specializes in expansion capital, mid and late ventures, and acquisition investments. It does not invest in start-ups. The fund primarily invests in information technology, healthcare, specialty manufacturing, and service industries. It seeks to invest in Midwest region including Illinois within the United States. It seeks to make equity investments between $1 million and $3 million in transactions valued between $2 million and $15 million and can also invest in exceptional young companies. Prism Mezzanine Fund SBIC, L.P. specializes in recapitalizations, internal growth, mergers, acquisitions, ownership changes, and subordinated debt financing to private middle market and mature companies. It primarily invests in industrial, healthcare, distribution, and business services industries.

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