Harry Clark founded Willdan Financial Services in 1988. Willdan Financial Services offers financial and business consulting services to more than 600 cities, counties, housing and state agencies, port authorities, and school districts in nearly 40 states. Willdan Financial specializes in the planning and implementation of taxes and compliance services for municipal bonds. Willdan Financial also offers utility rate analysis, user fee studies, and annexation studies. It operates offices in California, Arizona, Florida, Maryland, New York, and Texas.

Skandia Forsakrings was founded in 1855 and is based in Stockholm, Sweden. As of February 2006, Skandia Insurance Company, Ltd. operates as a subsidiary of Old Mutual plc. Skandia Insurance Company, Ltd. provides long-term savings products worldwide. Its product portfolio comprise unit linked assurance products, mutual funds, and traditional life assurance products, as well as provides online retail banking services. The company also sells protection and critical illness products that comprise healthcare and group insurance policies.

KBW, Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates as an investment bank specializing in the financial services industry in the United States and Europe. KBW, Inc. provides various investment banking services, including mergers and acquisitions and other strategic advisory services, equity and fixed income securities offerings, and mutual thrift conversions; and equity and fixed income sales and trading. KBW, Inc. also offers research services comprising fundamental and objective analysis that identifies investment opportunities and assists investor to make investment decisions; and asset management services consisting of investment management and other advisory services to institutional clients, private high net worth clients, and various investment vehicles. KBW, Inc. serves bank and thrift holding companies, banking and insurance companies, thrift institutions, broker-dealers, mortgage banks, asset management companies, mortgage and equity real estate investment trusts, consumer and specialty finance firms, financial processing companies, and securities exchanges. KBW, Inc. was founded in 1962 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

The Fidelity Global Group is an international asset-based investment firm that provides credit facilities to a variety industries through its subsidiaries. Fidelity Global provides development funding for communications, metals, mining, and chemical companies for both the private and government sectors internationally. It offers credit services and loans for refiners of nonferrous metal, such as aluminum, brass, copper, magnesium, and zinc, to purchase new equipment or expand operations. Fidelity Global company also offers loans to companies that are credit-challenged on a per project basis. Fidelity Global Group usually gets a percentage of the profits from those projects.

Saratoga Partners is an independent, New York-based merchant banking firm making alternative asset investments in private equity and debt in partnership with management across the industrial manufacturing, business service and information service sectors. Saratoga primarily pursues investments in U.S.-headquartered, middle-market companies that it believes have opportunities for enhanced growth and productivity. Saratoga’s investment strategy includes a special focus on “special situation” middle-market investments involving complexity or inefficiencies – including restructurings – that present attractive value combined with active, “hands-on” post-investment involvement to achieve revenue and productivity enhancements.

NYSE Amex, formerly the American Stock Exchange or AMEX, is NYSE Euronext's US market for emerging growth companies and a specialist in options and exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Operating as NYSE Amex Options and NYSE Amex Equities, the exchange uses a hybrid model of auction-based and electronic trading; it lists more than 500 operating companies and funds and is the one of the nation's largest options exchanges (behind the Chicago Board Options Exchange). NYSE Euronext acquired AMEX in 2008 and changed its name to NYSE Alternext US. Responding to feedback from traders, NYSE changed the company's name to the more-familiar NYSE Amex in mid-2009.

Code Hennessy & Simmons, L.L.C. was founded in 1988 and is based in Chicago, Illinois. Code Hennessy & Simmons, L.L.C. is a private equity firm specializing in acquisitions of middle market companies. The firm also invests in add-on acquisitions of any size for its existing portfolio companies. It does not invest in turnarounds and venture capital. The firm prefers to invest in industrial distribution; infrastructure and industrial products with a focus on companies that manufacture products or provide services with applications in infrastructure-related industries; consumer products with a focus on consumer manufacturing, services, and food companies; and business and consumer services with a focus on specialty rental, healthcare services, information and document management, commercial and industrial services, facilities-based retail and entertainment, and personal care companies in the United States. It also seeks to invest in marketing services, business process outsourcing, education services, and financial services. For its consumer products investments, the firm does not invest in companies where end-market demand is subject to rapid changes in fashion.

Winterthur Life UK, Ltd. offers wealth management solutions to the high net worth marketplace. It provides focused investment and retirement solutions, and support services distributed through IFAs. The company offers individual pension products, such as the personal pension; the self-invested personal pensions; the section 32 and the self-invested section 32; and the executive pension and the self-invested executive pension. In addition, it provides administration, Internet access, pricing, and investments to a range of defined contribution pension products. Winterthur Life UK also offers group personal pensions, stakeholder, group additional voluntary contribution, and contracted in money purchase products. It offers group personal pensions and single premium personal pensions via advisers.

Henderson Global Investors Limited was founded in 1934, and is based in London, United Kingdom with additional offices in Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Luxembourg, Madrid, Milan, Paris, Vienna, Zurich, London, Chicago, Hartford, New Delhi, Singapore, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Sydney. Henderson Global Investors Limited is a privately owned investment manager. The firm provides its services to institutional, retail clients, and high net-worth individuals. It provides equity, fixed income, and balanced portfolios. The firm also manages mutual funds and pension funds for its clients. It also provides hedge funds, real estate, and private equity portfolios. The firm invests in public equity, fixed income, and alternative markets across the globe. It uses in-house research to make its investments. The firm operates as a subsidiary of Henderson Group plc.

Safeguard Scientifics, Inc. was founded in 1953. Safeguard Scientifics, Inc. is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in expansion financing, growth capital, management buyout, recapitalization, industry consolidation, corporate spinout, and early stage financing transactions. The firm prefers to make investments in companies engaged in the technology and life sciences sectors. Within the technology sector, it invests in software as a service, technology enabled services, Internet/new media, financial services information technology, healthcare information technology with capital requirements of up to $25 million, and internet-based businesses. Within the life sciences sector, the firm invests in molecular and point-of-care diagnostics, medical devices, regenerative medicine, and specialty pharmaceuticals. It invests throughout United States and Canada. The firm primarily invests between $10 million and $25 million in growth equity financing and between $5 million and $10 million in early-stage financing. It typically invests in the capital structures including owner financed and bootstrapped companies, corporate division or business unit, and venture capital-backed seeking a growth partner.

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