GenSpring Family Offices was founded in 1989 and is based in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida with additional offices in Atlanta, Georgia; Charlotte, North Carolina; Miami, Florida; Orlando, Florida; St. Petersburg, Florida; and Chevy Chase, Maryland. GenSpring Family Offices, LLC. operates as a subsidiary of GenSpring Holdings, Inc. GenSpring Family Offices, LLC is a privately owned multi-family office with approximately $5.88 billion in assets under management. It also provides estate and trust planning, tax planning, and philanthropy services to its clients. The firm provides its services to individuals, typically high net worth individuals; pension and profit sharing plans; pooled investment vehicles; charitable organizations, and corporations. It invests in the public equity and fixed income markets of the United States. The firm also makes its investments in private equity and hedge funds.

GIMV NV was founded in 1980 and is based in Antwerp, Belgium with additional offices across the Europe. GIMV NV is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in buyouts, growth capital, and venture capital investments. It prefers to invest in infrastructure and innovative as well as in marketing and communication services companies. Within buyouts and growth capital, the firm seeks to invest in mid-sized established companies in Belgium, France, and Netherlands. In Belgium, it seeks to invest in small and medium sized businesses and typically invests in the following transactions; succession issues in family-owned companies, financial shareholders seeking liquidity, corporate divestitures, and companies in need of financial means to accelerate growth. The firm invests in equity and mezzanine transactions in all sectors. Additionally, it seeks to invest between €5 million ($6.72 million) and €40 million ($53.79 million) in companies with enterprise values up to €150 million ($201.73 million). In France, the firm seeks to invest in small and medium sized businesses and typically invests in the following transactions; succession issues in family-owned companies, financial shareholders seeking liquidity, corporate divestitures, and companies in need of financial means to accelerate growth. It typically invests between €5 million ($6.72 million) and €25 million ($33.62 million) in companies with enterprise values of up to €150 million ($192.46 million).

Managing partners Alan E. Goldberg and Robert D. Lindsay founded Lindsay Goldberg in 2001. Currently, the firm has about 80 companies in its portfolio. Growing businesses that want to bring in additional capital may choose to add Goldberg Lindsay & Co. (Lindsay Goldberg) to their ownership rosters. The private equity firm targets family-owned businesses and entrepreneurships in various industries for long-term investment. Often remaining in investments for 10 to 20 years, Lindsay Goldberg typically partners with management by installing board members at companies its invests in. Through various affiliates, the firm has a national presence in the US, as well as in Germany and Norway.

Norwest Venture Partners (NVP) invests mainly in information technology companies focused on the semiconductor, software, and consumer Internet sectors. It typically invests between $10 million to $15 million in start-up or early-stage firms and assists its portfolio companies with executive recruiting, forming strategic alliances, and financial and legal matters. An affiliate of Wells Fargo, NVP closed its 11th fund worth some $1.2 million in late 2009. It is the firm's largest fund to date. NVP has more than $3.7 billion of capital under management and has invested in more than 450 companies.

Sarasin & Partners LLP is a London-based specialist investment management firm in which the local management are major shareholders. The firm employs over 170 people and manages approximately £9.8 billion. With a committed team of investment professionals in the foreground and a strong bank in the background, we aim to provide an unusual combination of successful investment performance and high service standards. Our objective is to be one of the most highly regarded investment managers for private clients and charities and to build the firm’s reputation as a distinctive, active manager in the institutional marketplace.Founded in 1841, Bank Sarasin today is one of Switzerland’s leading private banking institutions. Its success is based on trust, confidentiality, expertise and dedication, as well as on the sustainable development of asset management, its core business. The Sarasin group - headquartered in Basel, Switzerland - employs around 1,600 staff. In addition to its headquarters in Basel, the Bank has further offices in Geneva, Lugano and Zurich. Internationally, the Sarasin group has offices in Europe, Asia and the Middle East. Bank Sarasin is a public limited company whose shares are listed on the Swiss Stock Exchange, SWX. Its majority shareholder, Rabobank, enjoys the highest qualification of credit status (AAA-rated) from prominent international rating agencies. Measured by its core capital, Rabobank is one of the world's top twenty financial institutions.

Siebert Financial, through subsidiary Muriel Siebert & Co., provides discount securities brokerage and institutional financial services. Siebert Financial Corp. retail division offers equity trading, mutual fund access, and retirement accounts to self-directed individual investors. Customers can access their accounts and trade by phone, Internet, wireless device, or in person at seven retail branches in California, Florida, New Jersey, and New York. Siebert Financial provides securities trading and underwriting and other services to corporations and government entities. Founder and president Muriel "Mickie" Siebert, the first woman member of the New York Stock Exchange, owns some 90% of the company. Siebert Financial Corp. was founded in 1886 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Battery Management, which was founded in 1983, manages more than $3 billion in committed capital; notable past investments include Akamai Technologies, Allegiance Telecom, Focal Communications, and Chordiant Software. Battery Management gives emerging technology companies the juice they need to keep running. A venture capital firm specializing in such high-tech fields as communications, software, and e-commerce, the company has invested in more than 200 businesses around the world. It invests as little as several hundred thousand dollars to seed small ventures on up to $100 million for late-stage expansion; it also takes equity stakes in companies through its private equity operations.

Kennedy Wilson (NYSE: KW) is a real estate operating company that provides a diversified array of real estate investments and services in the U.S. and Japan. The company was founded in 1977 as a real estate auction business and has since grown into a vertically integrated international real estate firm headquartered in Beverly Hills, CA with approximately 300 employees and 21 offices throughout the U.S. and Japan. The people of Kennedy Wilson thrive on opportunity— identifying, creating, seizing and maximizing real estate opportunities. Often, they see opportunities first, aided by the company's far-reaching market intelligence network. They're also buoyed by real estate challenges from which others might shrink, driven by a confident determination borne of the company's entrepreneurial culture, roll-up-your-sleeves approach and highly successful track record.Kennedy Wilson's operations are defined by two core business practices: KW Investments and KW Services. KW Investments includes fund management and advisory services for value-added and core-portfolio investments, commercial and multifamily residential property acquisitions (including condominium conversions) and note purchases.KW Services includes property and asset management for third-party and company-owned assets, auction and residential sales, brokerage (leasing, including tenant/landlord representation, and investment sales and financing), construction management and trust management.

NVM Private Equity Limited is an independently-owned firm of venture capital managers with over 20 years experience of investing in UK businesses. We manage five investment funds, four of which are Venture Capital Trusts (VCTs) and our funds under management exceed £186 million. NVM is a generalist investor specialising in making equity investments between £2 million and £10 million in UK unquoted companies. Established in 1988, NVM is owned by its employees following a management buy-out from the Aberdeen Group in December 2003.

BNP Paribas Asset Management has approximately E250 billion (more than $340 billion) in assets under management in products such as money market investments, equities, bonds and convertible securities, and structured and alternative investments. Institutional investors make up for more than half of the unit's customer base; its retail network and private banking clients account for most of the remainder. BNP Paribas Asset Management also offers its investment products through third-party providers. It has offices in more than two dozen countries, and has been looking to countries such as Brazil and China for growth. The firm is part of BNP Paribas Investment Partners.

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