RS Investment Management Co. LLC was founded in 1986 and is based in San Francisco, California with an additional office in New York. RS Investment Management Co. LLC, doing business as RS Investments, is a privately owned investment manager. It provides its services to pension and profit sharing plans, investment companies, pooled investment vehicles, endowments, foundations, high net worth individuals, corporations, and banks. The firm manages separate client-focused equity and fixed income portfolios. It also manages mutual funds for its clients. The firm invests in the public equity and fixed income markets across the globe. It invests in growth and value stocks of small-cap, mid-cap, and large-cap companies. The firm employs a fundamental analysis to create its portfolio. It conducts an in-house research to make its investments.

InnoCal could almost be short for "in or around California," which is where the venture capital firm focuses on investing in early- and expansion-stage information technology companies. The company tends to focus on businesses involved with enterprise software and hardware, semiconductors, wireless and Internet technologies, and broadband communications. The firm's criteria for investing, besides geography, includes strong management teams, exclusive proprietary technologies, and market-dominating potential. InnoCal generally invests between $1 million and $5 million per company, and it limits the number of investments it makes in order to focus its attention on developing strategies for portfolio companies.

BNP Paribas Investment Partners (BNPP IP) works in euros, pesos, or dollars. The asset management arm of French banking giant BNP Paribas has some $730 billion of assets under management, almost half of which is for institutional clients. It operates through about 20 specialist investment companies such as hedge fund manager Fauchier Partners, environmental fund manager Impax Group, and multi-manager group FundQuest. Its partners offer mutual funds, exchange-traded funds, money-market funds, equities and fixed-income funds, employee retirement funds, credit, and structured finance. BNPP IP has offices in more than 35 countries across Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and the Americas.

WestBridge Capital LLP was formed in July 2008 to effect the buyout of WestBridge Fund Managers Ltd (formerly Wales Fund Managers Ltd), an established private equity business. WestBridge invests between £1m and £5m in fast growing, profitable UK SMEs. WestBridge's partners have each been investing in this segment of the market for an average of 20 years, having worked for leading private equity investors, and helping to create many successful and valuable businesses.Wales Fund ulture is that Wales back our investment judgment with Wales own money. The partners have committed a significant cash investment into Wales latest fund, the WestBridge SME Fund, and the deal team will also invest meaningful amounts into each transaction. This creates a genuine alignment of interests with Wales investors and the management teams Wales back. Wales bring more than money to Wales investee companies. Wales fund structure incorporates many entrepreneurs and business angels as well as professional investors. This means that Wales invest "smart money" that potentially opens up a wealth of business contacts to be exploited by investee companies.

CCP Equity Partners was founded in 1985 and is based in Hartford, Connecticut. CCP Equity Partners is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in investments in growth equity, mid and late venture stages, buyouts, middle market, and mature transactions. It prefers to invest in financial and healthcare services companies. The firm typically invests in companies based in North America. It seeks to invest between $5 million and $20 million over the life of an investment. The firm prefers to invest in companies with revenues between $5 million and $100 million. It typically acts as a lead or co-investor.

Ladenburg Thalmann Financial Services Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides investment banking, equity research, institutional sales and trading, independent brokerage, advisory, and asset management services in the United States. Ladenburg Thalmann Financial Services Inc. offers general investment banking and corporate finance consulting services; underwriting of public equity and debt offerings, including specified purpose acquisition companies underwriting; placement of private debt and equity offerings; merger, acquisition, and divestiture advisory services; rendering fairness and solvency opinions; and financial valuations. Ladenburg Thalmann Financial Services Inc. also provides investment consulting services, private investment management, retirement plan sponsor services, alternative investments, and architect program, as well as an asset management program, which provides centralized management of mutual fund and exchange-traded fund portfolios based on asset allocation models. In addition, Ladenburg Thalmann Financial Services Inc. offers broker-dealer and investment advisory services to the independent registered representative community. Further, Ladenburg Thalmann Financial Services Inc. reviews and analyzes general market conditions and other industry groups; issues written reports on companies, with recommendations on specific actions to buy, sell, or hold; furnishes information to retail and institutional customers; and responds to inquires from customers and account executives. Ladenburg Thalmann Financial Services Inc. serves middle market and emerging growth companies, and high net worth individuals. Ladenburg Thalmann Financial Services Inc. was founded in 1876 and is based in Miami, Florida.

Banca Intermobiliare di Investimenti e Gestioni S.p.A. was founded in 1981 and is based in Turin, Italy. Banca Intermobiliare di Investimenti e Gestioni S.p.A., through its subsidiaries, provides various private banking services in Italy and internationally. It offers a range of asset management services, including discretionary accounts, mutual funds, and SICAVs, as well as alternative investment funds or hedge funds. The company also engages in the trading of Italian and foreign securities, derivatives, and currencies; and securities placing through mandates or participation in underwriting and/or placing syndicates. In addition, Banca Intermobiliare provides personal financial advisory services that offer clients with constant updates on the correspondence of their investment goals and asset allocation; and insurance brokerage services. Further, the company involves in the restructuring of groups, placing assets in management holdings/funds, intellectual property management, and the conveyance and protection of assets through instruments, such as trusts. Its lending services comprise lines of credit for stock market transactions or to provide flexible liquidity; mortgage loans for real-estate investments; loans related to the structuring of corporate debt or aimed at facilitating generational transition; and performance bonds, as well as project financing and syndicated loans.

Tullett Prebon plc provides inter-dealer broker (IDB) services in Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and North America. Tullett Prebon plc serves commercial and investment banks and hedge funds in such areas as fixed income securities, treasury products, equities, energy, and interest rate derivatives. Tullett Prebon plc data sales business, Tullett Prebon Information, collects and distributes global price information. Tullett Prebon was formed in the 2006 demerger of brokerage firm Collins Stewart Tullet, a transaction which also resulted in the creation of Collins Stewart. Tullett Prebon plc traces its roots to the 1868 founding of Marshall & Son.

TRS was founded in 1939. Teachers Retirement System of The State of Illinois is a public pension benefit plan that provides retirement, disability, and survivor benefits for Illinois public school teachers, administrators, and personnel. Funded by contributions from members, employers, and the State of Illinois, as well as by investment income, TRS manages approximately $30 billion in assets. The system serves more than 350,000 members from all public schools except those in the city of Chicago. TRS is one of five state-funded retirement systems; the others are the State Universities Retirement System, the State Board of Investments, the State Employees' Retirement System, and the Judges Retirement System.

Bartercard International Limited is proudly Australian and has led from the front through innovating and developing systems. Bartercard International Limited has also enjoyed rapid growth through the development of a sophisticated franchising model that has been efficiently replicated throughout the globe. Bartercard has created an exchange whereby a company solicits business from another company within its network and is paid in in-kind services rather than cash. Bartercard International Limited has business trade exchanges among more than 75,000 members and merchant accounts in nine countries, many of which are located in the Middle East. A private company, Bartercard was founded in 1991 by executive chairman Wayne Sharpe and other directors.

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