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SPARK Ventures is one of the leading early-stage venture capital investors in Europe, providing equity investment to high growth technology, media and healthcare companies in the UK and Europe. SPARK Ventures manages approximately £190 million across several investment vehicles including: two Venture Capital Trusts (VCTs); an AIM listed investment company (SPARK Ventures plc), University Funds on behalf of leading UK universities including Oxford; and a Limited Partnership on behalf of major institutional investors. SPARK Ventures has been investing in early-stage businesses for 12 years and has a wealth of expertise in backing and developing companies from start-up through to eventual trade sale or IPO.SPARK’s core expertise lies in identifying promising early-stage businesses and leading their funding right from the earliest stages. SPARK Ventures’ team is one of the most experienced in the early-stage investment space. It brings its portfolio businesses the necessary capital, combined with strategic and operational management support as well as commercial and marketing expertise to help them succeed. Its founding management team has worked together for more than 10 years, and during that time has helped many entrepreneurs to realise their ambitions.

Spectrum Equity Investors was founded in 1994. Spectrum Equity Investors is a private equity firm specializing in middle market, leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations and dividends, acquisition financings for growth either organically or by acquisition, and privately negotiated investments in public companies in independent private companies or divisions of larger companies. The firm seeks to invest in the media, communications, entertainment, software, information technology, information and business services, and related growth sectors. It targets investments in companies based in North America and Western Europe. The firm typically, makes investments between $30 million and $150 million and can also make underwriting of a much larger equity amount in conjunction with limited partners. It prefers to be a lead investor, either as a minority or majority investor and acquires a board seat in its portfolio companies. The firm also assists its portfolio companies with debt and equity financings. It seeks to invest in the form of secondary share purchases from early shareholders.

Sprott Physical Gold Trust (the Trust) is a closed-end mutual fund trust. The Trust was created to invest and hold substantially all of its assets in physical gold bullion. The Trust seeks to provide an exchange-traded investment alternative for investors interested in holding physical gold bullion. The Trust invests primarily in long-term holdings of unencumbered, fully allocated, physical gold bullion and will not speculate with regard to short-term changes in gold prices. Sprott Asset Management LP (the Manager) is the manager and RBC Dexia Investor Services Trust (RBC Dexia), a trust company, is the trustee of the Trust. As of December 31, 2009, the Trust held 97% of its total net assets in physical gold bullion in London Good Delivery bar form. The Trust does not invest in gold certificates or other financial instruments that represent gold or that may be exchanged for gold.

Sprout Group is a venture capital and private equity investment firm focused on emerging technology companies from startups to management buyouts. The firm seeks to invest in sectors in healthcare technology (biopharmaceuticals, medical devices, laboratory infrastructure and technology, other healthcare investments), communications (components, equipment & software, service providers), and software (applications, infrastructure, electronic design automation). The firm frequently serves as the lead investor in its portfolio companies and serves on its company's Board of Directors. The Sprout Group is a venture capital affiliate of Credit Suisse First Boston. Sprout Group is no longer making new investments, but works actively with associated funds; New Leaf Ventures, which invests in Healthcare Technology, and DLJ Merchant Banking Partners, which focuses on a broad range of equity investment opportunities.

The Chairman, Bruce Rowan, has managed the Company since January 2002. Bruce has a wealth of experience over many years of investing primarily in small company new issues and pre-IPO opportunities in the natural resources and mineral exploration sectors. Bruce is supported by Tony Scutt, non-executive director, and by John Watkins, finance director and company secretary. Tony is an experienced private investor and investment analyst as well as a director of three investee companies; Tony is a qualified Chartered Secretary, a Certified Internal Auditor with the US Institute of Internal Auditors and spent 35 years with Shell. John has been in practice as a Chartered Accountant since 1972, including periods in the City with the accountancy firms of Neville Russell and Ernst & Young. In addition, he is a non-executive director of five Starvest investee companies.

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