The Sacramento Valley Board of Trade (SVBT) provides risk management and related collections information and services for member businesses in the food, beverage, and media industries. Founded in 1980 by sister firm Northern California Collections Service, SVBT helps clients prevent debt losses by compiling and distributing monthly reports containing total due, past due, and returned check information on accounts within the industries. Members can also submit and review credit alerts via the board's Web site.

Susquehanna International Group, LLP was founded in 1987. Susquehanna International Group just like the Pennsylvania river with which it shares a name. Susquehanna company is a market-maker for approximately 5,000 NASDAQ-listed securities, in addition to commodities, exchange-traded funds, and about 600 equity options and 45 index options. It trades municipal and corporate bonds and energy derivatives as well. Susquehanna also makes private equity and venture capital investments, performs institutional brokerage services, and conducts equity research on more than 130 companies.

Sentinel Capital Partners, L.L.C. was founded in 1995 and is based in New York. Sentinel Capital Partners, L.L.C. is a private equity firm specializing in equity investments in mature and lower middle market private and public companies. The firm seeks to invest in, management buyouts; recapitalizations; corporate divestitures; growth financings; industry consolidations; turnarounds; restructurings; special situations; and going private transactions. It prefers to invest in companies operating in the, outsourcing; consumer products; business and marketing services; consumer services; consumer discretionary; healthcare; consumer staples; materials; food and restaurants; outsourced manufacturing; franchising; distribution; outsourced manufacturing; and manufacturing sectors. The firm seeks to invest in companies based in the United States and Canada. It invests up to $75 million in equity investments but prefers a range between $20 million and $50 million in companies with EBITDA between $5 million and $25 million and enterprise values ranging from $25 million to $250 million with minimum $6 million annual cash flows. It prefers to be a majority investor, but co-invests selectively, and takes a seat on the board of directors of its portfolio companies.

Institutional Venture Partners was founded in 1980 and is based in Menlo Park, California with an additional office in San Francisco, California. Institutional Venture Partners is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in investments in later stage companies, small-cap public companies, and growth equity. The firm seeks to invest in industry rollups, founder liquidity, and select public market transactions. It generally invests in information technology and media companies with a focus on internet and digital media, enterprise information technology, travel, communications, wireless, software, infrastructure, and technology-enabled services. The firm invests in companies based in the United States. It invests in private companies having revenues greater than $10 million.

Global Yatirim Holding Anonim Sirketi was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in Istanbul, Turkey. Global Yatirim Holding A.S., through its subsidiaries, operates primarily in the fields of finance, energy, infrastructure, real estate, and transportation. The company’s Finance segment provides various financial services. Its Energy segment engages in natural gas distribution and electricity generation activities. The company’s Infrastructure segment involves in cruise and commercial ports operations. Its Real Estate segment invests and trades in real estate properties. The company’s Other segment engages in the media and steel iron production activities. Global Yatirim Holding also engages in the brokerage, portfolio management, financial investments, mining investments, provision of waste disposal systems, mining, tourism investments, publishing, and storage operations, as well as operates as an insurance agent.

Nuveen Investments was founded in 1898 and is based in Chicago, Illinois. Nuveen Investments, Inc. is a privately owned investment manager. The firm provides its services to public pension funds, university endowments, foundations, insurers, high-net-worth individuals, and institutional investors. It manages closed-end exchange-traded funds, mutual funds, and hedge funds for its clients. The firm also manages equity, fixed income, and balanced portfolios. It invests in the public equity and fixed income markets across the globe. The firm primarily invests in growth stocks of large-cap companies and value stocks of multi-cap companies with a focus on large-cap and small-cap companies. It in invests in national and state-specific municipal securities to make its fixed income investments.

Panmure Gordon & Co. plc offers investment bank and institutional stockbroking services. It provides advice to companies on their financing requirements through equity capital markets, including flotations, private placements, secondary issues, and follow-on services and corporate finance advisory. The company acts as corporate broker or adviser to approximately 100 companies and investment trusts. It provides sales and trading to institutional investors, producing research on approximately 250 companies and 300 investment trusts. Panmure Gordon makes markets in approximately 750 stocks and investment trusts.

NYSE Euronext, through its subsidiaries, provides securities listing, trading, market data products, and software and technology services worldwide. The company offers products and services in cash equities, futures, options, swaps, exchange-traded products, bonds, market data, and commercial technology solutions to issuers, investors, financial institutions, and market participants. It operates NYSE, the New York Stock Exchange, which lists various debt and equity structured products, such as capital securities, mandatory convertibles, and repackaged securities; and NYSE Arca, an electronic exchange for equities, exchange traded funds, exchange traded notes, exchange-traded vehicles, certificates, and options. The company also operates Euronext that lists various securities, including domestic and international equity securities, convertible bonds, warrants, trackers, and debt securities, including corporate and government bonds. In addition, it operates NYSE Liffe that trades futures and options contracts; NYSE Arca Europe, which offers electronic, low latency trading platform for blue chip stocks; NYSE Alternext operates its European markets for emerging growth companies; NYSE Amex, which lists various classes of companies that are qualified for listing on NYSE; NYSE Liffe US that trades full and mini-sized gold and silver futures and options on futures contracts; and SmartPool, a European dark pool dedicated to the execution of institutional order flow.

Securities America provides a little financial security for the land of the free and the home of the brave. Operating through various subsidiaries, Securities America Financial Corporation distributes mutual funds and provides retirement planning and wealth management services through a network of nearly 2,000 independent financial advisors, as well as through financial institutions such as banks. Other products offered include stocks, bonds, options, and certificates of deposit. Securities America Financial Corporation also offers insurance and annuities from an array of providers. A subsidiary of Ameriprise Financial, Securities America has some $13 billion in assets under management; both firms were spun off from American Express in 2005.

Macquarie Private Wealth (formerly Blackmont Capital) provides equity sales, trading, and research, as well as capital raising and financial advisory services for corporate and institutional clients. Its research division focuses on the technology, media, communications, metals and minerals, energy, real estate, and financial services sectors. Macquarie Private Wealth company's wealth management activities include private client services and support for investment advisors. Products include money market instruments, bonds, public venture capital, retirement plans, and tax-free savings accounts. Australia-based Macquarie Group acquired Blackmont Capital from CI Financial at the end of 2009.

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