Landmark Ventures, Inc. was founded in 1995 and is based in New York, New York. Landmark Ventures, Inc. provides strategic and financial advisory services. The firm offers mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, private placements, capital raising, due diligence, and fund placement advisory services. Additionally, it provides business development, strategy formulation, and key account identification services. The firm’s clientele include ActionBase, Blinco Systems, Agentis, BioPetroClean, BoardVantage, Centrata, Inovis, Network Privacy, and Radware. It caters to IT, business services, and life sciences sectors.

The State of Wisconsin Investment Board was founded in 1985 and is based in Madison, Wisconsin. The State of Wisconsin Investment Board (SWIB) is a privately owned investment manager. The firm primarily provides its services to Wisconsin retirement system. It also manages accounts for state investment fund and other state trust funds, including injured patients and families compensation fund, state life insurance fund, local government property insurance fund, historical society endowment fund, and tuition trust fund (EdVest). The firm manages separate client focused equity and balanced funds for its clients. It also manages index funds for its clients. The firm invests in the public equity, fixed income, and alternative investment markets across the globe, with a focus on the United States. It typically invests in real estate, private equity, and natural resources to make its alternative investments. The firm invests in value stocks employing a fundamental research with a tactical asset allocation for its multi-asset investments. It invests in companies of small-cap, mid-cap, and large-cap to create its funds.

DBRS Limited issues credit ratings for corporate, financial, and government bonds throughout the world. Canada's largest credit rating agency, DBRS also operates in the US, Latin America, Europe, and Asia. In the US, DBRS is one of the 10 official Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organizations (NRSROs) approved by the SEC; about a dozen European nations have granted the company External Credit Assessment Institution (ECAI) status. DBRS maintains ratings on more than 43,000 companies. DBRS uses a variety of quantitative methodologies based on the various industries and markets it covers. Chairman and owner Walter Schroeder founded the company in 1976.

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.

Olympus Partners was founded in 1988 and is based in Stamford, Connecticut. Olympus Partners is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in financing late stage venture capital, expansion capital, mature and middle market management buyouts, mergers and acquisitions, senior and subordinated debt, growth capital, turnarounds, private financings of public companies, going private transactions, and divestitures. The firm does not invest in seed or early stage. It prefers to invest in business services, healthcare manufacturing and services, logistics and transportation services, consumer products and services, consumer and restaurant, software and information technology services, and financial services. The firm typically invests $20 million for venture capital and growth capital deals to $300 million or more for buyouts. It can either take a controlling stake or a minority ownership position in a company depending on capital and liquidity requirements of the company. The firm seeks to take Board seats in the portfolio companies. It typically holds its investments between three years and seven years.

Capital Z Management company holds significant minority interests in about 15 US and European alternative investment management firms that specialize in long/short equity positions, managed futures, private equity, emerging markets, special situations, and other investment strategies. Capital Z typically acquires an ownership stake of 20% to 50% in its sponsored asset managers, takes seats on their boards of directors, and provides input on the management of their funds and on other major business decisions. Capital Z Management company also makes private equity investments through its CZR Capital and Union Square Partners affiliates.

Fox Paine & Company, LLC was founded in 1996 and is based in Menlo Park, California. Fox Paine & Company, LLC is a private equity firm specializing in management buyouts, public-to-private transactions, and growth capital investments. It seeks to invest in mature companies. The firm primarily invests in financial services and insurance; semiconductors; agribusiness, including seeds and food and agriculture; healthcare, including healthcare services and medical devices; energy, oil, and gas; telecommunications; industrials; and consumer goods. It prefers to be the lead investor in its portfolio companies.

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.

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.

NGP Capital Resources Company was founded in 2004 and is based at Houston, Texas. It is a subsidiary of NGP Energy Capital Management. NGP Capital Resources Company is a financial services company, which invests in debt securities of small and mid-size private energy companies. It is a closed-end, non-diversified management investment company that has elected to be regulated as a business development company (BDC). A focus area for its investments in the energy industry is domestic upstream businesses that produces, develops, acquires and explores for oil and natural gas (E&P) companies. The Company’s investments range in size from $10 million to $50 million. Its investments consist of debt instruments, including senior and subordinated loans combined in one facility, sometimes with an equity or property-based participation right component, and subordinated loans, sometimes with equity components. The Company also invests in preferred stock and other equity securities on a stand-alone basis.

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