Founded in 1989, Alfa Group Consortium is one of Russia’s largest privately owned financial-industrial conglomerates, with interests in oil and gas, commercial and investment banking, asset management, insurance, retail trade, telecommunications, media, water supply and water disposal, as well as other industrial-trade and special-situation investments. The Group typically focuses on value-oriented, longer-term opportunities, primarily in Russia and the CIS, but also invests in other markets which form part of the Group’s strategic business objectives.Alfa-Banking Group, includes Alfa-Bank Russia, Alfa-Bank Ukraine, banks in the Netherlands, in Belarus and in Kazakhstan as well as representative offices in Cyprus, the United States and in the United Kingdom. Alfa-Bank Russia one of Russias largest private banks, is the Group's flagship company. The Bank provides a full range of corporate, retail and investment banking services, asset management and trade finance, and has a considerable branch network in Russia and has subsidiaries in the Netherlands, Cyprus, the USA and the United Kingdom. Alfa-Bank Ukraine, one of the ten largest and is one of the most dynamic privately-owned banks in Ukraine, operates in all key sectors of the banking sphere. Alfa Capital Management is the Group's asset management arm whose clients include Russian as well as international institutional and private clients. Alfa Capital Partners is the Group's private equity and real estate investment advisory arm. Alfa Group is also the owner of AlfaStrakhovanie Group one of the largest Russian insurers with a diversified portfolio of services comprising both comprehensive business insurance coverage and an extensive range of retail insurance products.

KPS Capital Partners, LP was founded in 1997 and is based in New York, New York. KPS Capital Partners, LP is a private equity firm specializing in investments in, turnarounds, financial restructurings, businesses in bankruptcies, follow on acquisitions, employee buyouts, failed acquisitions, corporate divestitures, carve-outs, and spin-offs of middle market companies. In case of turnarounds, the firm seeks to invest in of underperforming or distressed businesses. It targets business facing closure, liquidation, and with a history of operating losses. In case of business in bankruptcies, it seeks to invest in, fund reorganizations of, and create new companies to purchase operating assets of, companies facing bankruptcy or asset sale under Section 363. The firm targets businesses burdened with, insufficient liquidity; excessive debt; operating in default of obligations to creditors; or lacking capital for investment, modernization, or growth, in order to eliminate, reduce or restructure the company's liabilities. The firm also seeks to invest in operating businesses, including divisions, subsidiaries or individual plants of larger companies capable of operating as stand-alone companies.

Advent International Corporation was founded in 1984 and is headquartered at Boston, Massachusetts with additional offices across Europe, North America, South America, and Asia. Advent International Corporation is a venture capital and private equity firm specializing in growth buyout, mid market, management buyouts, buyins, company succession, strategic repositioning, and venture capital funds. Within buyout funds, it invests in minority and majority recapitalizations, financing organic or acquisition-led growth, international expansion, and growth equity and capital transactions in established and developing markets. In established market buyout investments, the firm invests in later stage, control buyouts of private companies or non-core divisions of large corporations, buy outs/ins, privatization, joint venture, restructuring, and special situation. It seeks to invest in business and financial services, retail and consumer, IT services and technology, media, and telecom, healthcare and life sciences, and industrial sectors. Within business services, the firm focuses on back-office processing services, business process outsourcing, customer support services, facilities management, transport; distribution; and logistics, financial and database information services, food and catering, human resource services, professional advisory, transaction processing, and information technology services. In financial services, it focuses on securities brokerage and trading systems, payment and transaction processing, foreign exchange services, credit card issuance, insurance brokerage, banking, asset management, consumer credit, financial services BPO, and specialty finance.

The Boston Company Asset Management, LLC traces its roots back to Boston Safe Deposit and Trust Company which first opened its doors to the public on June 1, 1875. Today, the firm is a highly-regarded fundamental active equity manager, whose success has been built on the responsibility of each employee to themselves, to their colleagues, and to our valued clients at every opportunity, every single day. The Boston Company Asset Management serve the investment needs of public, corporate, defined benefit and defined contribution plans, as well as Taft-Hartley, endowment/foundation and sub-advised relationships and the retail marketplace.The Boston Company Asset Management research-based culture, which we consider to be among our most valued assets, emphasizes teamwork and collaboration across asset classes, sectors, industries, and investment disciplines in constant pursuit of the best investment ideas. The Boston Company offers a number of incentives designed to attract and retain best-in-class investment professionals. First and foremost is Boston Company's collegial culture. The Boston Company Asset Management have a reputation among employees and clients as a firm where very smart, humble, driven individuals are assembled in an open team atmosphere wherein the free exchange of ideas is encouraged. The Boston Company Asset Management senior management takes particular pride in the attention that has been placed on the creation and management of this unique environment.

Knightsbridge Advisers, Incorporated was founded in 1983 and is based in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. Knightsbridge Advisers, Incorporated specializes in direct and fund of funds investments. The firm invests venture capital partnerships that invest in technology-based companies at the seed and early stages. It invests within the United States. The firm is currently investing through its funds KVC VI and Knightsbridge Venture Completion 2005.

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.

Spectrum Equity Investors was founded in 1994. Spectrum Equity Investors is a private equity firm specializing in middle market, leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations and dividends, acquisition financings for growth either organically or by acquisition, and privately negotiated investments in public companies in independent private companies or divisions of larger companies. The firm seeks to invest in the media, communications, entertainment, software, information technology, information and business services, and related growth sectors. It targets investments in companies based in North America and Western Europe. The firm typically, makes investments between $30 million and $150 million and can also make underwriting of a much larger equity amount in conjunction with limited partners. It prefers to be a lead investor, either as a minority or majority investor and acquires a board seat in its portfolio companies. The firm also assists its portfolio companies with debt and equity financings. It seeks to invest in the form of secondary share purchases from early shareholders.

Nasdaq OMX PHLX (formerly The Philadelphia Stock Exchange and known as the PHLX for short) might think so. Founded in 1790, the exchange claims seniority status over the larger New York Stock Exchange. The PHLX provides electronic and hybrid floor-based trading of equities, options, and futures trading, as well as clearing services. The exchange trades some 7,000 stocks and 2,600 equity options. In 2008 The Nasdaq OMX Group bought the PHLX from a group of investors including Citadel Investment Group, Citigroup, Credit Suisse (USA), Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, and UBS for some $695 million. The exchange is now part of the Nasdaq Transaction Services US Group.

Peterson Partners wants to grow its money where other companies are flourishing. The private investment firm invests in profitable small to medium-sized companies that earn more than $10 million in revenue. Targeting companies in the business services, transportation, and manufacturing sectors, Peterson provides capital, offers strategic advice, and installs management team members; it also assists in acquisitions and management-led buyouts. Its investments have included companies like JetBlue, Asurion, Franklin Covey, and Cranium.

CapMan provides management and advisory services for funds investment in real estate and other assets in the Nordic region and Russia. The company manages funds worth approximately E3.5 billion (about $5.7 billion). Its CapMan Private Equity business focuses on investments in middle-market buyouts, tech firms, and medical technologies; CapMan Real Estate invests in commercial and hotel properties, primarily in the Helsinki metropolitan area. Fund investors include insurance companies, pension funds, and banks.

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