Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.(KKR) was founded in 1976 and is based at New York, New York with additional offices across North America, Europe, and Asia. Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. is a private equity and mezzanine investment firm specializing in acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, management buyouts, and mezzanine investments in large cap companies. The firm will consider investments in all industries, with a focus on infrastructure. It seeks a board seat in its portfolio companies. The firm’s average investment horizon is five years and more. It exits its investments through initial public offerings, secondary offerings, and sales to strategic buyers. The firm holds a controlling interest in its portfolio companies after they go public.

Established in 1923 by Governor Gifford Pinchot, the system has grown to manage more than $35 billion in assets. Employees of the Keystone State can rest assured the Pennsylvania State Employees Retirement System (SERS) is keeping a keen eye on their currency. SERS administers the statewide retirement and pension benefits fund for Pennsylvania's public employees. Serving more than 210,000 members, SERS is funded by a combination of employee contributions, employer contributions, and investment earnings. In addition to managing retirement accounts, the system provides retirees with health insurance.

Cheung Kong Infrastructure Holdings knows the ins and outs of financing heavy construction projects. Cheung Kong Infrastructure Holdings Limited company (also known as CKI) has interests in transportation, energy, water, and construction materials primarily in Hong Kong and mainland China. Its energy group owns nearly 40% of Hongkong Electric and has stakes in several Chinese power plants. CKI's materials operations include cement and concrete firms. The transportation arm oversees toll roads and bridges in five Chinese provinces. CKI company also has infrastructure investments in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the UK. Through Hutchison Whampoa, real estate investment holding company Cheung Kong (Holdings) Limited controls an 85% stake in CKI.

Calvert Group, Ltd. was established in 1976 and is based in Bethesda, Maryland. Calvert Group, Ltd. is a Maryland-based investment advisor with over $7.5 billion assets under management. Its equity investment strategies include aggressive growth, growth, growth and value, indexing, value, small-cap, mid-cap, large-cap, quantitative, and social screening. The firm invests globally, but specifically, in the United States, Europe, and emerging markets.

Mackenzie Financial Corporation was founded in 1967 and is based in Toronto, Ontario with an additional office in Vancouver, Canada. Mackenzie Financial Corporation is a privately owned investment manager. The firm primarily provides its services to pooled investment vehicles. It also caters to corporations, high net worth individuals, banking and thrift institutions, investment companies, pension and profit sharing plans, and charitable organizations. The firm manages equity, fixed income, and balanced mutual funds, segregated funds, pooled funds, pension funds, and labor sponsored funds for its clients. It invests in the public equity and fixed income markets across the globe. For its equity investments, the firm invests in growth and value stocks. It operates as a subsidiary of Mackenzie Inc.

Compass Diversified Holdings was founded in 2005 and is based in Westport, Connecticut. Compass Diversified Holdings operates as a subsidiary of The Compass Group LLC. Compass Diversified Holdings (the Trust) acquires controlling interests in and actively manages businesses. The Trust’s manager is Compass Group Management LLC (CGM). As of December 31, 2009, the Company had six business segments: Compass AC Holdings, Inc. (ACI or Advanced Circuits), American Furniture Manufacturing, Inc. (AFM or American Furniture), Anodyne Medical Device, Inc. (Anodyne), Fox Factory, Inc. (Fox) HALO Branded Solutions, Inc. (HALO) and CBS Personnel Holdings, Inc. (CBS or CBS Personnel). In March 2010, the Company announced that its subsidiary, Advanced Circuits, acquired Circuit Express, Inc. In April 2010, the Company acquired Liberty Safe and Security Products, Inc.

Founded in 1985, Granahan Investment Management, Inc. is employee-owned. Granahan Investment Management (GIM) provides small capitalization equity investing for large institutional clients through its two funds. Its Small Cap Explorer fund targets companies with a market cap between $500 million and $2.5 billion while its more recent Small Cap Core Growth fund targets companies with a market cap between $100 million and $1 billion. All told the firm has some $3 billion in assets under management. Portfolio companies include business information provider Dun & Bradstreet, automated teller machine operator Euronet, and marketing services provider ValueClick.

Scale Venture Partners makes mid- to late-stage investments in businesses mostly in the hardware, software, semiconductor, networking, biotechnology, and health care industries. Scale Venture Partners has invested in such companies as Bellamax, Picolight, Somaxon Pharmaceuticals, and Dynavax Technologies. The firm typically makes an initial investment between $5 million to $15 million and then keeps capital on hand for companies to use as they grow. Bank of America had been the majority owner of the company, but decided to sell its stake in a shift away from venture capital.

DeSilva & Phillips, LLC has completed nearly 200 transactions since it was founded by managing partners Roland DeSilva and Reed Phillips III in 1996. DeSilva & Phillips wants a piece of the media frenzy. The specialty investment banking firm offers advice and expertise about mergers, acquisitions, and strategy; corporate finance; business and property valuations; restructuring; and related services to clients in the media and communications industries. DeSilva & Phillips caters to customers including those involved in consumer and trade magazine publishing, trade show production, medical publishing, and digital media and technology.

Brookfield Asset Management, Inc. operates as a global asset management company, with a primary focus on property, power and infrastructure assets. Business areas The company operates and manages assets in the following areas: its property operations include core office properties in North America, the U.K. and Brazil, residential home building in North America and Brazil, as well as associated development activities and property services. The company’s power generation business is concentrated on hydroelectric power generation in North America and Brazil, with co-generation and wind energy facilities. The company’s timberland operations own and manage two million acres of private timberlands in North America and Brazil. The company’s transmission infrastructure business includes electricity transmission systems in Canada and Chile. The company’s specialty funds business develops, invests and manages funds and investments on behalf of institutional and related investors that co-invest in the same types of assets which the company owns, including bridge lending, restructuring, real estate finance and fixed income and real estate securities. The company also owns direct interests in various investments, collectively referred to as Private Equity Investments. PROPERTY OPERATIONS The company conducts a range of property operations in North America as well as in Europe and South America. Core Office Properties The company owns and manages a core office portfolio and focuses on major financial, energy and government centre cities in North America and Europe. The company owns interests in 133 commercial properties totalling approximately 85 million square feet of rentable area, as well as 18 development sites with 22.6 million square feet of potential developable area.

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