Pi Capital is a unique investor network that finds exciting growth equity and alternative asset investment opportunities for its members, and negotiates participation in select private equity deals and funds. It allows individual investors to participate in transactions on an opt-in basis that are usually the exclusive preserve of institutions.In addition to investment opportunities, Pi Capital offers its members exclusive vibrant social and educational programmes. Throughout the year, Pi Capital provides a unique platform for members to engage with each other and with expert speakers by hosting topical speaker lunches, charity dinners, and cultural and philanthropic events.Pi Capital members are some of the UK’s most successful and influential business leaders. Members are typically entrepreneurs, CEOs, chairmen and non-executive directors of medium to large private and public companies or full time private investors. Together, they sit on over 600 boards and their combined expertise covers all major UK industries and service sectors.

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.

Kelso & Company was founded in 1971 and is based in New York, New York. Kelso & Company is a private equity firm specializing in leveraged acquisitions and management buyouts and purchase of significant ownership of private companies, divisions, or subsidiaries of public or private companies; public companies through recapitalizations or going private transactions. The firm also seeks to purchase significant blocks of stock from public or private companies seeking equity capital or persons seeking liquidity. It does not pursue hostile transactions, substantial dismantling or liquidation of companies, and break-up opportunities. The firm invests for a period of over five years and exits its investments through an IPO, recapitalization, or strategic sale. It takes a board seat and usually has control through majority ownership in its portfolio companies. The firm can also make minority investments in conjunction with board representation or other significant shareholders' rights, or may join with other investors as a member of a control group.

The Clearing Corporation (TCC) has no problem coming between buyers and sellers of over-the-counter traded derivatives (such as futures and options). As trades are continuously matched throughout the day, TCC substitutes itself as buyer and seller for the trade and thus guarantees the performance of every trade it accepts. The independent clearinghouse serves major dealers and participants in the worldwide derivatives market, most of which are stockholders. The company was formed in 1925 as The Board of Trade Clearing Corporation and became the first independent clearinghouse for futures markets in the US. TCC was bought by the IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) in 2009.

Elco Holdings Ltd. was founded in 1949 and is based in Tel Aviv, Israel. Elco Holdings Ltd. is an Israel-based investment company which its main lines of activity are conducted through separate business units incorporated into distinct legal entities: Electra Ltd., Electra Real Estate Ltd., Electra Consumer Products (1951) Ltd., Airwell Airconditioning B.V. and Elco Landmark Residential Holdings, LLC. The Group’s operations range over several business sectors such as end to end services for infrastructure and development, including initiation, research, mechanical and electro-mechanical contracting, electricity infrastructure and upkeep, importing and marketing of retail consumer electronics, yielding real estate operations and production and marketing of air-condition systems. Elco Holdings Ltd. has operations in Israel, France, Russia, Hong Kong, Australia, Greece, Belgium, Germany, Holland, United Kingdom, Italy and Spain. The Company's production facilities are located in Israel, Italy, France and China.

PLUS Markets plc ('PLUS') is a new small & mid-cap stock exchange for London, seeking to create the deepest pool of small & mid-cap liquidity in Europe. It is a Recognised Investment Exchange in the UK and a Market Operator under the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive ('MiFID'), authorised to operate both secondary (trading) and primary (listing/quotation) markets.PLUS is fully committed to the principles of competition and choice for trading and listing equity securities in London. Indeed, PLUS introduced competition to small & mid-cap trading in London in December 2005 in response to customer demand, a full two years ahead of the implementation of MiFID in November 2007.PLUS is itself a smaller quoted company, with some 50 employees covering all core exchange functions including Business Development, Information Technology and Regulation. Based in the heart of the City of London, it meets stringent Financial Services Authority requirements in order to offer efficient access to the London investment community.

Japan Securities Finance Co., Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a securities finance company in Japan. The company's services for securities companies and financial institutions comprise loans for margin transactions, including fund loans and stock loans; general stock lending that include lending stock certificates needed to settle stock trading; bond services comprising brokerage between borrowers and lenders in bond borrowing and lending market; loans for negotiable margin transactions comprising loan funds needed to settle negotiable margin transactions; bond financing, including loan funds needed in bond underwriting and trading; and general loans that consist of loan working funds to securities companies. It also offers secured loans on securities for individual and corporate investors comprising bond financing and general loans, which include direct loans to customer; and loans on securities in safekeeping account, within credit line set before. In addition, the company provides peripheral services, such as securities custody, which includes custody services for securities owned by institutional investors; and government bond debt servicing comprising repayment services for principal and interest on government bonds. Further, it engages in real estate ownership, leasing, trading, and brokerage, as well as offers insurance agency services.

Three Cities Research, Inc. was founded in 1976. Three Cities Research, Inc. is a private equity firm specializing in acquisitions of medium sized business. The firm seeks to invest in transactions that involve a change of control in unexploited growth situations that can benefit from the infusion of substantial equity capital which can fund growth involving both internal expansion and acquisitions; under performing companies due to poor operating performance, excess leverage, or failed strategies; companies with poor operating management; and complicated transactions including strategic issues, legal complications, capital problems, operating issues, and shareholder or debt holder issues. It seeks to invest in industrial manufacturing, distribution, apparel, publishing, services, and retailing. The firm seeks to invest a minimum of $20 million in companies that have the potential of generating at least $15 million of operating income. It prefers to be an all-cash buyer in transactions of up to $100 million. The firm typically targets transactions that have values up to $200 million. It does not invest in high technology, natural resources, or regulated industries.

BlueRun Ventures was founded in 1998 and is based in Menlo Park, California with additional offices across the United States, Europe, and Asia. BlueRun Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in seed or start-up and early stage investments. The firm primarily focuses on investments in the technology industry including companies engaged in information technology, consumer electronics, wireless software, internet, digital and new media, gaming, enterprise software, semiconductors and components, consumer internet service, entertainment and knowledge process outsourcing, mobile, wireless, and consumer technology industries. It prefers to make initial investments ranging between $1million and $6 million with additional capital reserved for follow on rounds. It seeks to invest globally.

Wells Fargo Securities, formerly Wachovia Capital Markets, provides investment banking and capital markets services for businesses. Offerings include financial and corporate advisory services, private capital and debt placement, underwriting, and equity investing. It also offers real estate financing, risk management services, and structured products such as asset-backed finance products. The firm has expertise with municipalities and in the retail, aerospace, financial services, energy, health care, real estate, media, and technology industries. Wells Fargo Securities and its former parent, Wachovia Corporation, were acquired by Wells Fargo in late 2008.

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