Lightyear Capital and its affiliated investment funds specialize in providing buyout and growth capital to companies across the financial services industry. Founded in 2000, Lightyear Capital has managed approximately $3 billion in committed capital. With its Principals averaging over 25 years of experience across the financial services industry, Lightyear Capital is ideally positioned to respond to the challenges and opportunities of financial services investing. Lightyear Capital has fully invested The Lightyear Fund, L.P. and is currently investing Lightyear Fund II, L.P.

Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown is part of the Private Wealth Management segment of German giant Deutsche Bank. The company provides a range of advisory, brokerage, and investment services to high-net-worth and ultra-high-net-worth individual investors, as well as institutional and corporate clients in the US. For corporate clients, Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown provides cash management, foreign exchange, investment consulting, custody, and prime brokerage services. The company also administers employee stock and stock option purchase plans. It has more than 15 US offices and approximately $43 billion of assets under control.

Village Ventures is a seed and early stage venture capital firm focusing on the consumer media/retail and financial services sectors. Village Ventures strategy is to partner with leading entrepreneurs creating innovative products and solving complicated problems in those industries.When it comes to seed and early stage investing, village ventures believe that there is strength in numbers. True early stage firms are necessarily small, and therefore often lack the scale required to effectively support their entrepreneurs. Village Ventures has built a platform, which it offers to other seed and early stage firms, to provide for collaboration, co-investment and administrative cost sharing. This network is a powerful tool to expand village ventures reach and make us more effective partners for village ventures portfolio companies.

Vision Capital's focus is clear: finance high-tech firms looking to go global. The venture capital firm specializes in funding European technology companies wanting to expand into the US and vise-versa. It focuses on the communications, semiconductor, software, and Internet sectors. Active investors who prefer to take seats on the boards of portfolio companies, Vision Capital's multinational, multilingual team looks for high-growth ventures, which it defines as greater than 35% compound annual growth, before it sinks its typical $3 million to $8 million in any given firm.

Founded in 1985, International Monetary Systems (IMS) serves over 17,000 businesses and professional people representing 23,000 cardholders in 50 U.S. markets. The IMS network enables companies to acquire new business, create cost savings, and improve operations by taking advantage of barter opportunities in their business models. Based in New Berlin, WI and managed by seasoned industry veterans, IMS is one of the largest publicly traded barter companies in the world and is continually expanding its network by adding exchange locations. The company's proprietary transaction software, Trade Network Tracking System (TNT), enables businesses and individuals to trade goods and services throughout North America online using an electronic currency known as trade dollars.

Canaccord Genuity (formerly Canaccord Adams) provides equities research, sales, and trading services, and investment banking services such as securities underwriting, sales, trading, M&A advice, and industry research. Formed in 1969 through the merger of Weston W. Adams & Company and Harkness & Hill, the company specializes in the technology, metals, mining, life sciences, real estate, and financial services sectors. Canaccord Genuity also acts as a market maker for small- and mid-cap stocks in the US. Canaccord Capital (now Canaccord Financial) acquired Canaccord Adams in 2006. Four years later, it acquired M&A advisory firm Genuity Capital Markets and rebranded all of its capital markets businesses.

Atalanta Sosnoff Capital Corporation, through its wholly owned subsidiaries, Atalanta Sosnoff Capital Corporation (Atalanta Capital), Atalanta Sosnoff Management Corporation (Atalanta Management), and ASCC Corporation, provides discretionary investment advisory, brokerage, and other related services to investment advisory clients. Atalanta Capital is a registered investment advisor that provides investment advisory and management services to institutional clients; and is the general partner and investment advisor of certain investment partnerships and mutual funds. Atalanta Management is also a registered investment advisor and a broker-dealer in securities that owns a seat; and is a member of the Chicago Board Options Exchange, Inc. It provides investment advisory and management services to individual and smaller institutional clients, and brokerage services to its clients and some of the clients of Atalanta Capital. ASCC performs investment advisory services for proprietary investment-related activities.

Transamerica Investment Management, LLC was founded in 1967 and is based in Los Angeles, California with additional offices in Dayton, Ohio; Denver, Colorado; Fort Worth, Texas; and Los Angeles, California. Transamerica Investment Management, LLC (TIM) is a privately owned investment manager. The firm primarily provides its services to individuals, including high net worth individuals. It also manages accounts for banking or thrift institutions, investment companies, pension and profit sharing plans, charitable organizations, foundations, endowments, Taft-Hartley accounts, corporations, and state or municipal government entities. The firm manages separate client-focused equity, fixed income, and balanced portfolios. It also manages mutual funds for its clients. The firm invests in the public equity, fixed income, and alternative markets of the United States. Within the alternative markets, it seeks to invest in convertible securities. The firm invests in growth and value stocks of micro-cap companies with market capitalization between $10 million and $300 million, small-cap companies with market capitalization between $100 million and $2.5 billion, mid-cap companies with market capitalizations between $300 million and $5.0 billion and large-cap companies with market capitalization greater than $5.0 billion to make its equity investments.

ICMA Retirement Corporation company was founded in 1972 by public-sector employers through the International City/County Management Association. ICMA Retirement Corporation (ICMA-RC) offers financial planning and manages and administers retirement plans exclusively for public-sector employees. A not-for-profit organization, it offers products including retirement health savings plans, IRAs, 401(a)s, 401(k)s, and 457s. ICMA Retirement Corporation company serves more than 800,000 employees of state and local governments, offering some 900 retirement savings plans in all. ICMA-RC is sponsor of the Vantagepoint and Milestone funds.

Wexford Capital was founded in 1994 and is based in Greenwich, Connecticut. Wexford Capital LLC is an employee owned hedge fund sponsor. The firm provides its services to pooled investment vehicles. It invests in the public equity and hedging markets across the globe. The firm employs an opportunistic approach to make its investments in bankruptcy/distressed companies in the energy/natural resource, real estate, technology/telecommunication, and transportation sectors. It utilizes a multi-strategy approach to make its investments.

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