Cravey, Green & Wahlen is a private equity investment firm which has supported management teams in acquisitions and recapitalizations of middle-market companies, typically involving transactions valued between $25 - 200 million. Cravey, Green and Wahlen's period for new investments is over and cravey, green & wahlen only managing our existing portfolio. The remaining CGW portfolio is co-managed by the principals of CGW and MSouth Equity Partners. As the successor to CGW, MSouth intends to build on the legacy of CGW with a similar focus on southern-based, lower middle market buyout opportunities.

Taiwan Business Bank was founded in 1915 and is headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan. Taiwan Business Bank, Ltd. operates as a financier and provider of banking assistance to small and medium-size businesses primarily in Taiwan. The company offers various deposit products that include demand deposits, including brokerage accounts; savings deposits comprising brokerage accounts and salary transfer accounts; combined savings, including demand deposit accounts, savings deposit accounts, and time deposit accounts; check deposits; certificates of deposit; and negotiable certificates of deposit. It also provides various loan products comprising assisting small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) upgrading loan, traditional industry boost - up loan, SME root establishment project loan, youth business start-up loan, micro-business start-up loan, traditional industry loan with credit guarantee programs, loans for earthquake reconstruction, loan for purchasing automatic machines, loan for purchasing energy-saving machine, low-interest loan for private enterprises to purchase pollution-protecting devices, soft loan for promoting east- area industry development, promoting industry research and development loan, and mortgage loans, including home loans.

RiskMetrics Group, Inc. provides risk management and corporate governance products and services to participants in the global financial markets. It operates in two segments, RiskMetrics and Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS). The RiskMetrics segment provides multi-asset, position-based risk, and wealth management products and services. Its RiskManager mark-to-market risk system integrates consistently-modeled market data with analytical models and processing capabilities to address its clients’ risk reporting requirements. This segment’s clients license RiskManager as a secure, interactive Web-based application service or as an outsourced risk reporting service. It provides clients with solutions based on credit-event risk through its CreditManager application, as well as solutions for financial advisors at private banks through its WealthBench application. The ISS segment provides corporate governance and specialized financial research and analysis services to institutional investors and corporations. It offers an outsourced proxy research, voting, and vote reporting service to assist clients with their proxy voting responsibilities.

The Jordan, Edmiston Group, Inc. was founded in 1987 and is based in New York, New York. The Jordan, Edmiston Group, Inc. (JEGI) is a boutique investment bank that provides financial services to media and information companies. The firm offers mergers and acquisition; debt and equity financing; valuation; and strategic consulting services. JEGI caters to media, information technology, marketing, communications, advertising, and publishing sectors. Its clientele include CNET, Dow Jones, Hearst, Jupitermedia, Nielsen Media, Pearson, Reed Elsevier, Thomson Corporation, United Business Media, Abry Partners, Frontenac Company, Housatonic Partners, Pfingsten Partners, Seaport Capital, Warburg Pincus, and Wicks Group of Companies.

Man Group plc, through its subsidiaries, engages in the structuring, sale, and distribution of alternative investment products and solutions. It also operates as a futures broker. Man Investments Man Investments, the Asset Management division, is a major provider in the alternative investment industry. It provides innovative products and tailor-made solutions to private and institutional investors. Through its core investment managers - AHL, RMF, Glenwood and Man Global Strategies - Man has succeeded in developing leadership in hedge funds and has interests in other asset classes. In its core hedge fund asset class, Man offers funds of hedge funds, structured, style and single manager products. Man Investments’ Core Managers Man’s core investment managers form the foundation of the asset management business. They provide the investment content for portfolios and are responsible for portfolio construction, asset allocation decisions and risk management. AHL AHL was founded in 1983. The Company implements two main managed futures investment programmes - the AHL Diversified Programme and the AHL Institutional Programme. These programmes are quantitative and primarily directional in nature, meaning they seek to identify and take advantage of upward and downward price trends. Trading takes place around-the-clock and real time price information is used to respond to price moves across a diverse range of global markets encompassing stock indices, bonds, currencies, short-term interest rates and commodities.

Alternative Investment Strategies is a closed-end investment firm that manages hedge funds. Alternative Investment Strategies company, founded in 1996, provides services to both private and institutional investors. About a third of its funds are US-based; approximately 50% are allocated to long and short equity funds. Company manager and adminstrator is Closed Fund Services Limited; investment manager is International Asset Management Limited.

Astellas Venture Management invests in seed-stage and emerging biotech companies, including drug discovery and development companies. The firm manages four venture funds, and its portfolio includes more than 20 companies. Astellas Venture Management is the venture capital arm of Astellas Pharma, formed from the 2005 merger of Yamanouchi Pharmaceutical and Fujisawa Pharmaceutical. Astellas Venture Management provides its portfolio companies not only with cash, but also access to the scientific expertise, production facilities, and marketing clout of its parent firm.

Alliance Technology Ventures IV, L.P. specializes to make early, seed, and start up investments. It seeks to invest in communications, semiconductor, and life science companies with a focus on devices, systems, infrastructure, networks, and applications. It prefers to invest in broadband access and infrastructure with focus on wireless, cable, xDSL, and optical and in companies helping to advance Moore's Law. In life sciences, it seeks to invest in later-stage drug development programs, nanotech-based diagnostic and therapeutic innovations, and targeted protein-based therapeutics. The fund prefers to invest in the companies based in south-eastern U.S. It does not invest in publicly traded companies or companies located outside of the continental U.S. The fund typically invests between $1 million and $5 million in its portfolio companies.

LaunchCyte LLC creates life sciences companies. Since LaunchCyte founding in 2000, LaunchCyte have created six companies that offer unique technologies and products to improve healthcare and the human condition. LaunchCyte search for the most exciting technologies from leading research universities and form companies to commercialize the innovations. At their base, LaunchCyte companies have platform technologies that solve problems relating to a particular disease state or method of improving diagnosis, drug development, or clinical trials. As the core technologies evolve, LaunchCyte often branch out into other applications where there is a market need for LaunchCyte solutions.

Vulcan Inc. firm holds the Microsoft co-founder's remaining stake in the industry-defining juggernaut, as well as stakes in dozens of companies involved in technology, telecommunications, multimedia, energy, and real estate. Portfolio holdings include cable company Charter Communications (which reorganized in 2009 under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection) and privately built spacecraft SpaceShipOne. Allen also owns two professional sports teams, the NBA's Portland Trail Blazers and the NFL's Seattle Seahawks.

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