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Founded in 1994, CommerceNet has been a trusted intermediary, conducting research and piloting programs that have advanced the commercial use of the Internet.CommerceNet sees dollar signs. The tech incubator provides seed money and takes stakes in companies that often are just a glimmer in their founders' eyes. It helps its target companies fund their ideas, collaborate with other Internet companies, and in general advance the commercial aspects of the Internet. The organization operates the Open Network for Commerce Exchange (ONCE), a business-to-business trading community. Funded companies include Webify Solutions (health care provider software) and SupplyFrame (supply chain software).

Commonwealth Bankshares was founded in 1970 and is headquartered in Norfolk, Virginia. Commonwealth Bankshares, Inc. serves as a holding company for Bank of the Commonwealth (the Bank). The Bank operates four branches in Norfolk, six branches in Virginia Beach, four branches in Chesapeake, two branches in Portsmouth, one branch in Suffolk, one branch in Powells Point, North Carolina, one branch in Waves, North Carolina, one branch in Moyock, North Carolina and one branch in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. The Bank conducts all of the business operations of a typical independent, commercial bank, including the acceptance of checking and savings deposits, and the initiating of commercial, real estate, personal, home improvement, automobile and other installment and term loans. The Bank also offers other related services, such as home banking, trust, travelers’ checks, safe deposit, lock box, depositor transfer, customer note payment, collections, notary public, escrow, drive-in facility and other customary banking services.

Communications Equity Associates was founded in 1973 by CEO Rick Michaels. Communications Equity Associates (CEA) provides investment banking, merchant banking, and private equity services to global companies in the communications, entertainment, and media industries. Communications Equity Associates company offers mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, divestment, and fund-raising services from 10 offices in the US and Europe. Its private equity division manages a family of funds with more than $1 billion under management. CEA has completed more than 900 transactions, most of which are cross-border arrangements. Customers have included such big names as AT&T, IBM, EDS, and Siemens.

Community Bankers Trust Corporation was founded in 1926 and is headquartered in Glen Allen, Virginia. Community Bankers Trust Corporation (CBTC) is a bank holding company for Essex Bank (the Bank). The Bank engages in commercial banking business and provides a range of financial services primarily to individuals and small businesses, including individual and commercial demand and time deposit accounts, commercial and consumer loans, travelers checks, safe deposit box facilities, investment services and fixed rate residential mortgages. On January 30, 2009, the Bank acquired Suburban Federal Savings Bank, Crofton, Maryland (SFSB). Essex Services, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Bank and was formed to sell title insurance to the Bank’s mortgage loan customers. Essex Services, Inc. also offers insurance products through an ownership interest in Bankers Insurance, LLC and investment products through an affiliation with VBA Investments, LLC.

Founded in 1906, NPM/CNP is controlled by the Frere family. Compagnie Nationale a Portefeuille SA (CNP) is a Belgium-based investment holding company. The Company's portfolio of assets splits into two categories: the direct investments and the investments through the Pargesa/GBL Group. The direct investments are represented by CNP’s consolidated participations in various companies, including Distripar, Belgian IceCream Group and Transcor Astra Group, as well as by other smaller investments in such companies as Total, M6, Iberdrola and Arkema, among others. The second category of the Company’s portfolio is represented by its investments through the Pargesa/GBL Group, which is jointly controlled by CNP and the Power Group (Canada), and which has large or controlling holdings in international companies, such as GDF Suez, Lafarge, Imerys, Suez Environnement and Pernod Ricard.

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