Globis Capital Partners was created in 1999 and is based in Tokyo, Japan. Globis Capital Partners is the venture capital and private equity investment arm of Globis Corporation. It specializes in early stage, growth capital, later stage, incubation, mezzanine, corporate spin-offs and management buyouts. The firm prefers to invest in the service, technology, and IT industries. It primarily invests in Japan but exceptions are made where the Japan subsidiary is incorporated in Japan and operates with autonomy from the parent company. The firm typically invests between ¥1 million ($.01 million) to ¥ 1.8 billion ($18.78 million) in its portfolio companies. It generally does not invest in seed stage companies.

JMP Group Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates as an investment banking, asset management, and corporate credit management company in the United States. JMP Group Inc. provides various investment banking products and services, such as capital raising, mergers and acquisitions transaction, and other strategic advisory services to corporate clients. JMP Group Inc. also offers sales and trading, and related brokerage services to institutional investors; and proprietary equity research in six industries, including business services, consumer, financial services, healthcare, real estate, and technology industries. In addition, JMP Group Inc. provides asset management products and services to institutional investors, high net-worth individuals; and involves in the management of collateralized loan obligations. JMP Group Inc. was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California with additional offices in New York, New York; Boston, Massachusetts; Chicago, Illinois; and Atlanta, Georgia.

Sand Aire was created in 1996 to manage the assets of Sir James Scott's family, earned upon the sale of Provincial Insurance, a company he founded in 1903. Then in 2006, Sand Aire merged with Northbridge, another UK wealth management firm. Today Sand Aire is jointly owned by its founding family, employees, and the founding shareholders of Northbridge. Sand Aire specializes in strategic wealth management primarily for families, trusts, and charities. It offers investment, wealth administration, and consultancy services to clients who typically have more than $40 million to invest, along with a desire to build their financial assets across generations.

and Capital Corporation was founded in 1969 and is based in Buffalo, New York. Rand Capital Corporation is a venture capital firm specializing in investments in small to medium-sized privately held companies. The firm does not prefer to invest in real estate sector. It invests in companies that are engaged in the exploitation of new or unique products or services. It seeks to invest in companies based in the Western and Upstate New York region and its surrounding states with focus on Buffalo and Niagara region. The firm may invest in region within three to five hour drives from Western New York including Canada. It typically invests between $500,000 and $1.5 million and the total Investment in rounds is between $1 million and $5 million. The firm seeks to be a lead investor in companies within its geographical area and participates in syndicate with other investors outside it. It prefers to invest in businesses that are unique or possess proprietary right. The firm prefers to be a minority investor and seeks to take a Board seat in its portfolio companies. It typically holds its investments for a period of five to seven years.

The General Board of Pension and Health Benefits of The United Methodist Church (GBOPHB) supervises and administers pension, retirement, investment, health care, disability, and death benefit plans for more than 74,000 church clergy, lay employees, and their families. Formed in 1908, the not-for-profit GBOPHB manages more than $16 billion in assets and is the nation's largest faith-based pension funds. GBOPHB focuses on socially responsible investing (SRI) and has taken an activist stance in addressing major corporations about such issues as global vendor standards, employee wages, and genetically modified foods.

EarlyBirdCapital, Inc. (“EBC”) is a registered broker-dealer and member of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc., Municipal Securities Rule Making Board, and Securities Insurance Protection Corporation. EBC is a boutique investment bank that has developed an expertise in working with smaller capitalization companies, special situation investments and Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs™), a new concept we pioneered and developed that involves publicly-traded, industry-specific acquisition funds. EBC has two main goals: to provide innovative, creative investment banking services to EBC corporate clients, and to provide EBC high net-worth and institutional clients with access to proprietary investment opportunities. EBC achieve both goals by applying innovative solutions to achieve corporate strategies and by linking successful entrepreneurs and businesses with the capital they need to continue growing. EBC is a small team of specialists. EBC take pride in EBC professionalism and expertise, which is best measured by the number of transactions that EBC participate in that reach completion and their performance thereafter.

Fortune Industries, Inc. company, formerly known as Fortune Diversified Industries, Inc., was incorporated in 1988 and is based in Indianapolis, Indiana. Fortune Industries, Inc. is a holding company, engaged in providing human resources outsourcing services through co-employment relationships with their clients. On November 30, 2008, the Company completed a transaction to sell all of the outstanding shares of common stock of the wholly owned subsidiaries James H Drew Corporation, Nor-Cote International, Inc., Fortune Wireless, Inc. and Commercial Solutions, Inc. On November 30, 2008, the Company sold or discontinued operations in its Wireless Infrastructure, Transportation Infrastructure, Ultraviolet Technologies and Electronics Integration segments. During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2009 (fiscal 2009), the Company’s operating segment was Business Solutions segment.

National Stock Exchange of India Ltd. was founded in 1992 and is based in Mumbai, India. National Stock Exchange of India Limited operates as a stock exchange in India. It provides a range of products for various markets, including equity shares, exchange traded funds, mutual funds, debt instruments, index futures and options, stock futures and options, and currency futures. The company also offers a trading platform for investors for trading equity, corporate debt, central and state government securities, t-bills, commercial paper, certificate of deposits, warrants, mutual funds units, exchange traded funds, derivatives, and currency futures. In addition, it engages in the clearing and settlement of the trades executed in the equities, derivatives, and government securities; undertakes settlement of transactions on other stock exchanges; and clearing and settlement of the commodity markets. Further, National Stock Exchange provides various services, products, and professional index services; data and info-vending products; and information technology products, services, and solutions for the securities industry.

Industrivärden was established in 1944; Ericsson was its sole original investment. Industrivärden's roster reads like a who's who of Nordic entrepreneuralism. The holding company invests in midsized and large public Nordic companies with an emphasis on industrial manufacturers and financial services. (Industrivärden is a Swedish word meaning "industrial value".) It owns stakes in companies including financial services group Handelsbanken, telecom company Ericsson, toolmaker Sandvik, and paper products maker Svenska Cellulosa. AB Industrivärden company prefers to take long-term significant stakes in companies in which it can take an active ownership role.

Morgan Stanley & Co. (MS&Co.) has their investment banking needs covered. A subsidiary of Morgan Stanley and part of its Global Wealth Management Group, MS&Co. also provides its individual, business, institutional, and government customers with brokerage and investment advice through products such as annuity, insurance, and credit vehicles. After Morgan Stanley merged Morgan Stanley DW into MS&Co. in early 2007, the unit became Morgan Stanley's primary US broker-dealer. The following year MS&Co. merged with government broker Morgan Stanley Market Products.

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