Waud Capital Partners, L.L.C. was founded in 1993. Waud Capital Partners, L.L.C. is a private equity firm specializing in partnering with management teams to invest in middle market buyouts, recapitalizations, industry consolidations, growth equity investments, acquisitions, add-on acquisitions, and ownership transitions of family owned businesses. The firm does not invest in turnarounds and companies in the biotechnology, high technology, hotels, oil and gas exploration and production, real estate, and restaurants sectors. It prefers to invest in business and consumer services, healthcare services, specialty distribution, and value-added manufacturing companies. Within these sectors, the firm prefers to invest in food and kindred products, textile mill products, apparel and other finished products, lumber and wood products, furniture and fixtures, paper and allied products, printing and publishing, chemicals and allied products, rubber and miscellaneous plastics, stone, clay and glass products, primary metal industries, fabricated metal products, industrial machinery and equipment, electronic and other electronic equipment, transportation equipment, instruments and related products, trucking and warehousing, U.S. postal services & transportation services.

Turner Investment Partners, Inc. was founded in 1990 and is based in Berwyn, Pennsylvania with an additional office in Hartford, Connecticut. Turner Investment Partners, Inc. is an employee owned investment firm. The firm primarily provides its services to investment companies, pension and profit sharing plans, and state and municipal government entities. It also caters to pension funds, foundations, public companies, other asset managers and pooled investment vehicles, financial advisors, banking and thrift institutions, individuals, charitable and non-charitable organizations, educational and non-profit enterprises, public-employee retirement systems, and Taft-Hartley plans. The firm manages separate client focused equity portfolios. It also manages a family of mutual funds for its clients.

Arcapita Bank B.S.C. was founded in 1997 and is based in Manama, Bahrain. Arcapita Bank B.S.C.(c) provides investment banking services to individuals and institutions in Bahrain and internationally. Arcapita Bank B.S.C. company invests in its own account and providing investment banking services in conformity with Islamic Shari’ah rules and principles. Arcapita offers corporate investment, real estate investment, asset-based investment, and venture capital management services.

Old Mutual (US) Holdings is the holding company for a group of about 20 asset management boutiques collectively known as Old Mutual Asset Management (US), or OMAM (US). The firm's multi-manager structure allows it to offer more than 100 different investment strategies across a range of asset classes, from domestic and international equities to fixed-income and alternative investments. Its offerings include retirement plans, mutual funds, trust services, and separately managed accounts. OMAM (US) and its affiliates have some $260 billion of assets under management for institutional and high-net-worth investors.

Draper Fisher Jurvetson was founded in 1985 and is based in Menlo Park, California. Draper Fisher Jurvetson is a venture capital firm specializing in seed, start-up, and early stage investments in emerging markets. The firm primarily invests in information technology, energy, clean technology, consumer media and advertising, consumer services and transactions, life sciences, mobile and wireless, new media, Internet content, e-commerce, telecommunications, nanotechnology, enterprise applications and services. Within information technology, it focuses on web-based applications and services, software infrastructure including peer-to-peer infrastructure, data communications and bandwidth enhancement, information services, and wireless applications, services, and technologies. Within nanotechnology and life sciences, the firm invests in bio-nano and biomimetic innovations, MEMS, novel materials, molecular electronics, medical devices and therapeutics, molecular diagnostics, bioinformatics, agbio, bio-energy, and various platforms and tools. Within clean energy technologies, it invests in energy generation, transmission, utilization and storage, water purification, grid optimization, industrial sensing and monitoring, and advanced materials and catalysts.

Cowen Group, Inc. is a publicly owned asset management holding company. Cowen and Company, represents the firm's investment banking and brokerage practice, which mainly entails strategic advisory and corporate finance services for small to midsized companies in the alternative energy, aerospace and defense, consumer goods, health care, media, technology, and real estate industries. Cowen Group, Inc. was founded in 1994 and is based in Atlanta, Georgia with additional offices in Boston, Massachusetts; Chicago, Illinois; Cleveland, Ohio; Dallas, Texas; and San Francisco, California.

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.

Based in Minneapolis, ShoreView Industries manages $600 million in private equity funds. ShoreView invests this partnership in established, middle-market companies with operations in North America, across a wide range of industries. ShoreView structures a variety of acquisition, recapitalization and build-up transactions, typically in businesses with revenues ranging between $20 million and $300 million.The Principals at ShoreView have completed over 50 lower middle-market transactions together over the past several years. ShoreView commitment to partnering with entrepreneurial companies in the lower middle market has resulted in a highly successful track record. The team has a broad and complementary array of transactional, legal, financial and operating skills and has substantial, relevant prior career experience in areas of corporate law, senior lending and other sectors of private equity.

Integrated Asset Management Corp. (IAM) is a Canada-based alternative asset management company. The Company offers alternative asset management to institutional investors, pension funds, private clients and retail investors. The alternative asset classes the Company manages for investors include private corporate debt, real estate asset management, private equity, managed futures and retail alternative investments. On January 23, 2009, the Company incorporated OreReserve Asset Management Inc., a 51%-owned subsidiary. On October 1, 2009, Integrated Management Limited amalgamated with the Company. In February 2010, Integrated Asset Management Corp. and its wholly owned retail alternative investment subsidiary BluMont Capital Corporation, acquired Northern Rivers Capital Management Inc.

Castle Harlan, Inc. was founded in 1987 and is based in New York, New York. Castle Harlan, Inc. is a private equity firm specializing in buyout, divestitures under duress, restructurings, turnarounds, workouts, bankruptcies, mature and development capital in middle market companies. The firm will not consider investments in heavily regulated companies. It typically invests in companies based in North America and Europe. The firm invests in transactions with a minimum value of $50 million. It prefers to hold controlling positions in its portfolio companies. The firm seeks to exit its portfolio companies through a strategic sale or public offerings.

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