Riordan, Lewis & Haden was founded in 1982. Riordan, Lewis & Haden is a private equity firm specializing in investments in middle market companies. The firm typically invests in growth capital, management buyouts, shareholder’s liquidity, and recapitalizations. It makes growth investments for working capital needs, additional production capacity, strategic acquisitions, and geographic expansion. The firm makes investments in business services, high value added manufacturing, specialty distribution, healthcare, and financial services. I t prefers to invest in home improvement, lawn and garden, storage and organization, sporting goods, outdoor recreation, luggage and travel accessories, and pet products. Within business services, the firm focuses on IT services, systems engineering, consulting, information security, and specialized data services. It looks for branded food, consumer products, precision components, and complex materials in high value added manufacturing sector. For specialty distribution, the firm focuses on healthcare products, plastics, and food. Within healthcare sector, it particularly invests in rehabilitation services, assisted living, devices, and home care. The firm focuses on specialty insurance and specialty finance for financial services sector. It typically, makes investments in companies headquartered Western U.S. with a focus in California.

Blackhawk Network keeps putting little plastic cards in the hands of consumers. Blackhawk Network Holdings, Inc. sells gift, phone, sports, ticket, and prepaid debit cards through a network of more than 80,000 retailers across North America and the UK. The cards can be found in convenience, drug, grocery, and mass market stores, including Chevron, Food Lion, Kroger, and Safeway (which is also Blackhawk Network's parent company). Retailers and franchises that have partnered with Blackhawk to offer their products and services through these cards include Barnes & Noble, iTunes, Starbucks, Visa, and the NBA. Its Gift Card Mall offers hundreds of cards that can be redeemed online or on-site at retail locations.

The Chairman, Bruce Rowan, has managed the Company since January 2002. Bruce has a wealth of experience over many years of investing primarily in small company new issues and pre-IPO opportunities in the natural resources and mineral exploration sectors. Bruce is supported by Tony Scutt, non-executive director, and by John Watkins, finance director and company secretary. Tony is an experienced private investor and investment analyst as well as a director of three investee companies; Tony is a qualified Chartered Secretary, a Certified Internal Auditor with the US Institute of Internal Auditors and spent 35 years with Shell. John has been in practice as a Chartered Accountant since 1972, including periods in the City with the accountancy firms of Neville Russell and Ernst & Young. In addition, he is a non-executive director of five Starvest investee companies.

Arbuthnot Latham & Co. Limited, a private bank, provides financial services in United Kingdom. The company offers banking, investment management, financial planning, pension, leasing, and factoring and invoice discounting services, as well as alternative investments. Its services include current accounts, money transmission, money market deposits, notice accounts, electronic banking, borrowing facilities, treasury, foreign exchange, fiduciary deposits, and derivative products; and investment advice and portfolio management, trust and company management, fund management, personal and inheritance tax planning, life assurance and family protection, health insurance and income protection, mortgage advice, school fees planning, offshore investments, savings, unit and investment trusts, OEICs, and tax effective investments. The company also provides lending products for the acquisition and development residential and commercial properties; finance to lease, own, and manage business and personal assets; and musical instrument and yacht finance. It serves private individuals, entrepreneurs, property investors and developers, owner-managed businesses, solicitors, accountants, insolvency practitioners, letting and managing agents, charities, and the motor sport sector.

SOFTBANK CORP. is a Japan-based company engaged in the telecommunications and Internet business. The Company operates in six business segments. The Mobile Communications segment provides cellular phone services and sells attached cellular phone terminals. The Broadband and Infrastructure segment provides high-speed Internet access services, Internet protocol (IP) phone services and contents. The Fixed Communication segment provides fixed communication service. The Internet Culture segment is engaged in the Internet advertising, the broadband portal and the auction businesses. The Electronic Commerce (E-Commerce) segment sells personal computers (PCs), peripheral devices and software for PC use, as well as provides business-to-business and business-to-customer e-commerce services. The Others segment is involved in the provision of technology services, the media marketing and the overseas fund business.

Suffolk Life Group plc was founded in 1971 and is based in Ipswich, the United Kingdom. As of May 6, 2008, Suffolk Life Group Plc operates as a subsidiary of Legal & General Retail Investments (Holdings) Ltd. Suffolk Life Group Plc provides and administrates specialist pension products in the United Kingdom. It offers various self invested personal pensions (SIPPs), including deed poll SIPPs and trust based SIPPs. The company deals in various assets with specialization in the purchase and management of various properties, such as football stadiums, zoos, airfields, gyms, fishing lakes, and town squares as part of the SIPP portfolio. It also provides pensions and investment administration services.

Turner Investment Partners, Inc. was founded in 1990 and is based in Berwyn, Pennsylvania with an additional office in Hartford, Connecticut. Turner Investment Partners, Inc. is an employee owned investment firm. The firm primarily provides its services to investment companies, pension and profit sharing plans, and state and municipal government entities. It also caters to pension funds, foundations, public companies, other asset managers and pooled investment vehicles, financial advisors, banking and thrift institutions, individuals, charitable and non-charitable organizations, educational and non-profit enterprises, public-employee retirement systems, and Taft-Hartley plans. The firm manages separate client focused equity portfolios. It also manages a family of mutual funds for its clients.

TM Capital was founded in 1989. TM Capital provides investment and merchant banking services including mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, financing, and advisory services. It also reviews and defends against unsolicited takeover attempts, provides fairness opinions and valuations, arranges private financing and financial restructurings, and occasionally participates in private equity investments.

Since 1986, Stonebridge has focused exclusively on meeting the unique investment banking needs of middle market, emerging growth, healthcare and technology clients. During this period, the firm has originated and closed over $3.0 billion in private financings and advised on over 250 M&A and corporate advisory assignments. With one of the largest independent investment banking groups in Boston, Stonebridge is able to offer clients the creativity, technical skills and structuring expertise typically found only in large Wall Street investment banking firms. However, as a boutique firm with specific product and market areas of focus, Stonebridge is able to provide clients with a level of attention and responsiveness that distinguishes us from Stonebridge larger competitors.

Old Mutual plc provides life assurance, asset management, banking, and general insurance services in North America, Europe, southern Africa, Latin America, and Asia. U.K. and Offshore This business provides products that serve the needs of long-term investors in the U.K. and international offshore markets. Skandia Investment Solutions is an investment platform. This platform gives advisers and their customers access to Individual Savings Accounts (ISAs), PEPs, and Collective Investment Accounts, which are provided by Skandia MultiFUNDS Limited. In addition, the platform offers an approved pension wrapper and U.K. and offshore life assurance bonds. Skandia Investment Management Ltd (SIML) is an asset management company. It provides multimanager funds created by Skandia Investment Group, the part of the Skandia group that specializes in investment research and the construction of multimanager funds. Skandia International is the company’s offshore and cross-border specialist, working in partnership with other Skandia and Old Mutual businesses. It includes Royal Skandia, Skandia Life Ireland, Old Mutual International, and Skandia Leben. Skandia U.K. Skandia U.K. focuses on long-term investments. It allows each customer to have a personalized and flexible investment portfolio, suited to their goals and risk appetite. The company provides tools for customers to analyse and construct the portfolio using open-architecture solutions which give access to approximately 1,000 funds from fund management companies, as well as manager-of-managers funds created both in-house and externally.

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