TriNorth is a Canadian-based investment company that manages a diversified investment portfolio to generate long-term capital growth for shareholders. TriNorth takes an active interest in its investee companies from the earliest stages, providing strategic and financial counsel, support and direction to assist in their growth and success. Trinorth's investment strategy includes structuring and initiating deals focused on particular resources, themes or regions as well as launching the development of businesses in select industries by providing assistance with the hiring of management teams, providing seed capital and facilitating IPOs. TriNorth is managed by Lawrence Asset Management Inc.

Value Line, Inc. was founded in 1931 and is based in New York, New York. Value Line, Inc. is a subsidiary of Arnold Bernhard & Co., Inc. Value Line, Inc. (Value Line) is principally engaged in the business of producing investment-related periodical publications and making available copyrighted data, including Value Line ranking system information and other information under agreements to third parties for use in selecting securities for third party marketed products, such as unit investment trusts, closed-end fund products and exchange traded funds, and providing investment management services to the Value Line Funds and other managed accounts. The Company is organized in two segments: Investment Periodicals, Related Publications and Copyright Data, and Investment Management. The investment-related periodicals offered by Value Line Publishing Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, cover investments, including stocks, mutual funds, options and convertible securities. As of April 30, 2009, the Company was the investment adviser for the Value Line Mutual Funds, which consisted of 14 mutual funds.

Kennet Partners Limited was founded in 1997 and is based in London, United Kingdom with an additional office in Foster City, California. Kennet Partners Limited is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in growth capital, divestitures, take-private transactions, recapitalizations, leveraged buyout, management buy-out, spinouts, management buy-ins, and acquisition financing. It prefers to invest in the technology, services, and digital media sectors. Within technology, the firm invests in enterprise software, information technology services and solutions, communication technologies, and semiconductor products. It typically invests in companies based in Europe and North America. The firm invests between $10 million and $20 million for growth investments and $20 million and $100 million for buyouts in companies with revenues of between $4 million and $50 million. It seeks to be a lead investor in its portfolio companies. The firm also co-invests with other investment partners.

Baylake Corp. was founded in 1876 and is headquartered in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. Baylake Corp. is the bank holding company of Baylake Bank (the Bank) and provides a range of banking and related business activities through its bank and its other subsidiaries. As of December 31, 2009, the Company had total assets of approximately $1.0 billion. The Bank is an independent community bank offering a range of financial services primarily to small businesses and individuals located in its market area. The Company conducts its community banking business through 28 financial centers located throughout Northeast Wisconsin, in Brown, Door, Green Lake, Kewaunee, Manitowoc, Outagamie, Waupaca, and Waushara Counties. It has eight financial centers in Door County, which is known for its tourism-related services. It has eight financial centers in Brown County, which includes the city of Green Bay. The Company serves a range of service, manufacturing and retail job segments in the Brown County market.

Gladstone Capital Corporation is a business development company and operates as a closed-end non-diversified management investment company. It invests in debt and equity securities of small and medium-sized private United States businesses. The company primarily invests in various categories of debt of private companies comprising senior notes, senior subordinated notes, and junior subordinated notes.

The Goldfarb Corporation is an investment holding company. The Goldfarb Corporation Company’s operations reside entirely in Canada. Its long-term investments comprise long-term floating-rate notes (MAV 2) (formerly non-bank, asset-backed commercial paper (ABCP)), and are designated as held for trading. As of December 31, 2009, short-term investments consisted of redeemable guaranteed investment certificates (GICs) with original maturities of 365 days or less bearing interest at rates ranging 0.3% to 0.7%.

Ares Capital Corporation was founded in 2004 and is based in New York, New York with additional offices in Los Angeles, California; Chicago, Illinois; and Atlanta, Georgia. Ares Capital Corporation (Ares Capital) is a specialty finance company, which is a closed-end, non-diversified management investment company. Ares Capital's investment objective is to generate both current income and capital appreciation through debt and equity investments. It invests in United States middle-market companies. It invests primarily in first and second lien senior loans and mezzanine debt, which in some cases includes an equity component like warrants. First and second lien senior loans generally are senior debt instruments that rank ahead of subordinated debt of a given portfolio company. Its investments have ranged between $10 million and $100 million each, although the investment sizes may be more or less than the targeted range. The Company’s investment adviser is Ares Capital Management LLC. In April 2010, Ares Capital Corporation completed its merger with Allied Capital Corporation.

Goldman Sachs Execution & Clearing (GSEC) provides trade execution and clearing services to institutional clients such as corporations, mutual funds, hedge funds, pension funds, central banks, and other broker-dealers. Through the company's Goldman Sachs Electronic Trading affiliate, customers can trade equities, options, currencies, futures, and commodities, and view prices and positions in real time. Its services are performed both electronically and by brokers. The company also offers algorithmic trading. GSEC is active in the US, Europe, and Asia. In 2008 parent Goldman Sachs converted from an investment bank to a bank holding company.

Angelo, Gordon & Co., Private Equity Group was founded in 1996 and is based in New York, New York. Angelo, Gordon & Co., Private Equity Group is an operating subsidiary of Angelo, Gordon & Co. Angelo, Gordon & Co., Private Equity Group is a private equity firm specializing in small and middle market transactions. The firm prefers to acquire businesses and assets from financially distressed sellers and through divestitures from large corporations. It seeks to invest in management buyouts, private company recapitalizations, corporate orphans, distressed debt, complex structural situations, special situations, partnerships with fundless sponsors and industry executives, corporate lift-outs, difficult or non-traditional deal situations, and asset pool purchases. The firm seeks to invest in specialty finance, retail, consumer and retail, financial services, healthcare services and facilities, and business services. It invests between $10 million and $250 million in companies having enterprise values of $30 million to $500 million. The firm makes control investments as a sole investor or co-investor in transactions.

Columbia Ventures Corporation (CVC) is hoping to recycle the business savvy it applied to the aluminum manufacturing business and use it to generate returns in the telecommunications field. The private equity firm was launched in 1987 to invest in an aluminum smelter plant in Washington state. It now owns a number of manufacturing facilities, including Columbia Commercial Building Products (aluminum windows) and Specialty Chemical Products LLC (silica extraction from crushed glass). In recent years the firm has turned its attention to international telecom providers; those holdings include One Communications, THUS Group, and Magnet Networks (Internet, telephone, and video provider in Ireland).

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