Eight Peaks seeks out and invests in near start up and small companies that are in sectors exhibiting long term growth. The investments must have the potential and catalysts to generate asymmetric returns. Once invested, Eight Peaks assists the companies to realise their potentials. Returns are generated on exits, which can be IPOs or trade sales. Eight Peaks makes investments in all sectors including technology, energy and natural resources, specifically in businesses and opportunities with the potential for substantial asymmetric capital appreciation. The focus is primarily on high growth companies, although investments may be made in anticipation of receiving dividends.

Hamon Investment Group believes in Asia's potential to provide investors with long-term capital growth, and it wants to put your money where its mouth is. Hamon is an independent asset management firm specializing in Asian investments. It offers open-ended funds and individual discretionary accounts to corporations, family trusts, financial institutions, pension funds, and private investors. Its flagship fund, Hamon Asian Market Leaders Fund, invests in regional Asian companies and emerging blue chip growth companies. The Hamon Selected Asian Portfolio fund makes strategic equity investments in listed Asian growth companies. Its Asian iTech Fund invests in listed equities of Asian IT and electronics companies.

Principal Financial Group, Inc. (PFG) is a provider of retirement savings, investment and insurance products and services. PFG’s United States and international operations concentrate primarily on asset accumulation and asset management. In addition, it offers a range of individual and group life insurance, group health insurance, individual and group disability insurance and group dental and vision insurance. PFG primarily focus on small and medium-sized businesses providing an array of retirement and employee benefit solutions to meet the needs of the business, the business owner and their employees. PGF has four segments: U.S. Asset Accumulation, Global Asset Management, International Asset Management and Accumulation, and Life and Health Insurance.

Partech International was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California with additional offices in Ile-de-France, France and Kfar Shemaryahu, Israel. Partech International is a venture capital firm specializing in seed investments, creation and post creation development in software and Internet, healthcare information technology, energy, chemistry , financial services, media, and communications sector. In the software and Internet sector, the firm seeks to make investments in infrastructure technologies, data management, Internet, electronics, software services, and open source software. In the communications and components sector, it seeks to back start ups and focuses on communications systems; communications software and applications; components; and materials and process technologies. The firm prefers to invest in France, Europe, and North America. It invests between €0.3 million ($0.45 million) to €10 million ($15.1 million) in its portfolio companies.

Silverfleet Capital Partners was founded in 1990. Silverfleet Capital Partners is a private equity firm specializing in middle market management buyouts, secondary buyouts, buyins, buy and build, and industry consolidation. It does not invest in development capital, minority shareholdings (unless as part of a consortium of investors), turnaround, or early stage financing. The firm seeks to invest in private companies operating in mature markets and going private transactions and supports its portfolio companies in product or geographic expansion organically or through acquisition. It prefers to invest in all sectors including industrial and commercial sectors with a focus on business and financial services, distribution, healthcare, leisure, consumer, and retail sectors. The firm primarily invests in Europe with a particular focus on the English, French, and German speaking countries and Nordic countries. It also invests in United States headquartered companies that either have or are developing significant activities in Europe. The firm typically invests in companies having enterprise value between €75 million ($97.25 million) and €500 million ($648.33 million).

Capital Hotel Management (CHM) is a hotel investment advisory and asset management firm, specialized in managing lodging assets for hotel owners including corporations, private investors, and public agencies. CHM company provides asset advisory services for about 20 hotels and resorts, including properties under construction, throughout the US. It oversees a portfolio worth about $5 billion; properties include hotels operated by Sheraton, Marriott, Hilton, and other lodging companies. Services include renovation planning for landmark properties, financial assessment, and strategic planning. CHM was founded in 2000 and operates from offices in Boston, Detroit, Honolulu, Florida, New York City, and San Francisco.

Menlo Ventures has the means to keep the American entrepreneurial spirit alive and kicking. The venture capital firm, which was founded in 1976, provides long-term capital and management services primarily to development-stage technology companies in such areas as communications, semiconductors, enterprise software, security, and mobile and Internet services. It has a focus on US companies and typically offers between $5 million and $30 million per transaction. Portfolio companies include Broncus Technologies, Bluesocket, 3Par , and nCircle Network Security. An active investor, Menlo has stakes in more than 80 companies and has some $4 billion under management.

China Resources means "the great land of China, endowed with abundant natural resources". The history of China Resources can be traced back to as early as 1938 when Liow & Company was established in Hong Kong. It was renamed China Resources Company in 1948 and restructured and incorporated under China Resources (Holdings) Co., Ltd. in 1983. In the same year, it relocated to its current headquarters in the China Resources Building on 26 Harbour Road, Wanchai of Hong Kong.Rooted in Hong Kong for over a half century, China Resources has been committed to fostering a better future by observing the proactive and human-oriented ideal. With efforts of many years, China Resources has been grown continuously and established a good business reputation. In over half a century's business in Hong Kong, China Resources has established a strong reputation based on its proactive business strategies, an open corporate culture and a commitment to fostering a better future.Today, it is one of the leading conglomerates in Hong Kong and the Chinese Mainland, with assets totaling around HK$ 240 billion and turnover totaling over HK$ 110 billion. China Resources' businesses touch every facet of people's lives. Its core businesses cover retail, power, breweries, real estate, food, medicine, textiles, chemical products, gas, compressor etc. Moving forward, the company will further develop its core businesses in the Chinese Mainland with Hong Kong as base, striving to become the market leader in each industry. The success of its core businesses will stimulate the further growth of the entire company and create a broader development space.

Piper Private Equity invests in UK companies valued up to £25 million through management buyouts, management buyins, and other transactions, typically putting in £2 million to £10 million per deal. Piper Private Equity company invests primarily in businesses residing in the retail, leisure, consumer products, and travel markets. Several of its portfolio companies are targeted at female consumers, such as the Pitcher & Piano pub chain. Piper Private Equity has also invested in the Las Iguanas and Tootsies casual-dining restaurant chains, partnering with Phoenix Equity Partners on the Tootsies deal. It sold its stake in Tootsies in 2005.

ACI Capital Co., LLC was founded in 1995 and is based in New York City. ACI Capital Co., LLC is a private equity firm specializing in buyout, growth capital, recapitalization, PIPE, secondary purchase, bridge financing, and special situation transactions of middle market companies. The firm prefers to invest in companies engaged in the consumer, manufacturing, energy, healthcare, and chemical sectors in the United States. It typically acts as a lead investor and invests between $10 million and $50 million per transaction in portfolio companies that have revenues between $50 million and $500 million and operating incomes between $5 million and $50 million.

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