Avenir Group invests in small and midsized companies and helps build those companies by providing management services and analysis, as well as business and administrative consulting. The firm prefers to invest in family businesses, threshold companies, and US divestments of international corporations. Avenir's portfolio includes such manufacturing companies as Proline Billiards (billiard tables), Nichols & Stone (wood furniture), and Westminster Ceramics (ceramic tile).

Vontobel Holding AG is a Swiss private bank. The Company is structured into three main business units: Private Banking, Investment Banking, and Asset Management/Investment Funds. Private Banking services include portfolio management and active investment advisory to integrated financial advice and inheritance planning. The Investment Banking business unit focuses on the derivatives and structured products business and on brokerage, as well as on selected corporate finance activities. Asset Management/Investment Funds specializes in active asset management based on asset allocation, stock selection and multi-manager approaches. Its products are distributed through wholesale channels and directly to institutional clients. Among its subsidiaries there are Bank Vontobel Cayman, Bank Vontobel Oesterreich AG, Bank Vontobel Europe AG, Vontobel Asset Management, Inc., Vontobel Fund Advisory S.A., Harcourt Investment Consulting AB and Harcourt Alternative Investments (HK) Ltd.

Maveron LLC was founded in January 1998 and is based in Seattle, Washington. Maveron, LLC is a venture capital firm specializing in early to mid stage venture financing. The firm seeks to make investments in consumer-focused businesses that have a highly differentiated brand. It invests in traditional consumer product and service businesses; companies that utilize technology to deliver products and services directly to the consumer; and companies that provide technology and services to consumer facing companies. The firm usually makes an initial investment between $3million to $10 million. It prefers to be the lead investor and takes a board seat on its portfolio companies.

Since 1988 the ELCA has comprised the American Lutheran Church, the Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches, and the Lutheran Church in America, which together represent almost 11,000 congregations. Although its members are looking forward to a more lasting reward, the ELCA Board of Pensions tries to help them toward a little heaven on earth during their retirement years. The Board of Pensions of The Evangelical Lutheran Church In America (or ELCA Board of Pensions) provides health, retirement, and other benefits and services for some 50,000 pastors, employees, and their families connected to the Evangelical Lutheran Church In America.

SES Advisors, Inc. benefits from helping companies manage their ESOP plans. An investment banking firm, SES Advisors offers consulting, financing, and legal services to companies who use or intend to use ESOPs, or Employee Stock Ownership Plans, as a retirement plan option. The company helps clients transition into ESOPs, offers administrative services to companies with existing ESOPs, and provides legal services through its affiliate Steiker, Fischer, Edwards & Greenapple, P.C.. SES Advisors provides services for various industries across the US, including construction and manufacturing companies, and engineering firms.

Liu Chong Hing Investment Limited ("LCHI"), founded in 1970, was established to engage in the investment and development of residential and commercial buildings both in Hong Kong and China, including Guangzhou, Shanghai, etc. It became a listed company in 1972 and subsequently expanded its investment and development to other business fields, such as investment holding, property management and agency, money lending, hotel management, manaufacturing of magnetic materials, share investment, etc., with more than 30 subsidiaries.

Greenlight Capital is a hedge fund firm that invests primarily in publicly traded North American corporate debt offerings and equities. Founded in 1996, the $6 billion Greenlight Capital also manages a fund of funds and a private equity fund through its affiliates, Greenlight Masters and Greenlight Private Equity Partners. It also operates Greenlight Capital Re, a property/casualty reinsurer. The company is led by activist investor David Einhorn, who has made a name for himself both in the boardroom and at the card table (as a finalist in the World Series of Poker).

United Western Bancorp, Inc. (United Western Bancorp) is a unitary thrift holding company. The Company’s operations are conducted primarily through United Western Bank (United Western Bank or the Bank), UW Trust Company (UW Trust), Matrix Financial Services Corporation (Matrix Financial), UWBK Fund Management, Inc., (Fund Management) and UW Investment Services Inc. (UWIS), all of which are wholly owned subsidiaries of the Company. As of December 31, 2009, it had eight full service banking locations in the Colorado Front Range marketplace (downtown Denver, Cherry Creek, Hampden, Centennial, Boulder, Loveland, Fort Collins and Longmont), and a loan production office servicing the Aspen and Roaring Fork Valley market areas.

iVoice has found the best way to increase shareholder value, separate and apart from the operating performance of iVoice, is by spinning off and distributing shares of its wholly owned subsidiaries in the form of a special dividend to the Company’s shareholders. The common stock distributions are part of a broader strategy relating to the transition of iVoice into a company focused on the development and licensing of proprietary technologies. iVoice also continue to search for potential merger candidates with or without compatible technology and products, which management feels may make financing more appealing to potential investors.

Ameriprise Financial, Inc. was founded in 1894 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Ameriprise Financial, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides financial planning, products, and services primarily in the United States. The company operates in four principal segments: Advice & Wealth Management, Asset Management, Annuities, and Protection. The Advice & Wealth Management segment offers financial planning and advice, as well as full service brokerage and banking services to retail clients through its affiliated financial advisors. The Asset Management segment provides investment advice and products to retail and institutional clients. The Annuities segment offers variable and fixed annuity products to retail customers primarily through financial advisors. The Protection segment provides various protection products through financial advisors to address the protection and risk management needs of retail clients, including life, disability income, and property-casualty insurance. The company was formerly known as American Express Financial Corporation and changed its name to Ameriprise Financial, Inc. in September 2005.

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