Athena Capital Advisors LLC was established in 1993 by Lisette Cooper, Athena's president. Athena Capital Advisors hopes to remove the headaches involved with financial planning. Athena Capital Advisors specializes in providing investment services for wealthy families and institutions, offering portfolio advisory and research services. Athena Capital Advisors company's institutional clients include hedge funds, private equity funds, and real estate firms.

OAM Avatar is owned by Overture Asset Managers. OAM Avatar, LLC company offers investments, analysis, and brokerage services for financial planners, institutions, wrap brokerage sponsors, and private clients. It manages more than $1 billion in assets from a portfolio that includes Microsoft, Bank of America, United Technologies, Target, and Johnson & Johnson. Products include equity and balanced brokerage programs, defensive and core equity, mutual funds, and customized services for private clients.

Penson Worldwide, Inc. was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Dallas, Texas. Penson Worldwide, Inc. (Penson) is a holding company. The Company is a provider of a range of critical securities and futures processing infrastructure products and services to the global financial services industry. The Company’s products and services include securities and futures clearing and execution, financing and cash management technology and other related offerings. The Company conducts business, through its wholly owned subsidiary SAI Holdings, Inc. (SAI). SAI conducts business, through its principal direct and indirect operating subsidiaries, Penson Financial Services, Inc. (PFSI), Penson Financial Services Canada Inc. (PFSC), Penson Financial Services Ltd. (PFSL), Nexa Technologies, Inc. (Nexa), Penson GHCO (Penson GHCO), Penson Asia Limited (Penson Asia) and Penson Financial Services Australia Pty Ltd (PFSA).

The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation was founded in 1784 and is headquartered in New York, New York. The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation (BNY Mellon) is a global financial services company. The Company’s two principal banks are The Bank of New York Mellon, which houses its institutional businesses, including Asset Servicing, Issuer Services, Treasury Services, Broker-Dealer and Advisor Services and the bank-advised business of Asset Management, and BNY Mellon, National Association (BNY Mellon, N.A.), a nationally chartered bank, which houses its Wealth Management business. Its United States bank subsidiaries engage in trust and custody activities, investment management services, banking services and various securities-related activities. As of December 31, 2009, it had two United States trust companies: The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, National Association and BNY Mellon Trust Company of Illinois. The Company operates in seven segments: Asset Management, Wealth Management, Asset Servicing, Issuer Services, Clearing Services, Treasury Services and Other.

FirstLink Investments Corporation Limited began in 1973 as Singatronics Pte Ltd, a manufacturer of consumer electronic products, such as pocket calculators, toys and games. On 5 October 1978, Singatronics (Singapore) Pte Ltd was incorporated as a private limited company to take over the entire undertakings of Singatronics Pte Ltd. The Company was converted to a public company, known as Singatronics Limited on 7 September 1987 and listed on the Secondary Board of the Singapore Stock Exchange, SESDAQ on 19 October 1987. It was subsequently upgraded to the Main Board on 5 November 1990. The principal activity of the Company is investment holding. The principal activities of the corporations in the Group consist of the mining of the salt, manufacturing and distribution of edible salts & food seasonings and industrial salts.

Stonington Partners is a New York based private equity firm with more than $1 billion of capital under management on behalf of public and corporate pension funds, private endowments and other financial institutions. Stonington Partners was formed in 1994 out of a desire of its Partners to establish an independent entity following a decade of managing the investment activities of Merrill Lynch Capital Partners, Inc. (MLCP), which had $1.6 billion of equity capital under management.Stonington focuses on identifying attractive investments in middle market companies with values between $50 million and $500 million. Stonington typically invests from $25 million to $150 million of equity per company either at the initial acquisition, or over time through add-on investments. While receptive to opportunities in across industries, Stonington focuses on sectors in which its team has proven expertise.Stonington’s investment professionals have over 90 years of cumulative private equity experience that were gained through Stonington Partners and their prior affiliation with MLCP. These experiences cover the past 20+ years of private equity investing through various market cycles. In addition to their roles with the portfolio investments made through Stonington Partners, stonington investment professionals played direct roles in over 20 investments of MLCP.

The Jordan Company, L.P. was founded in 1982. The Jordan Company, L.P. is a private equity firm specializing in traditional leverage buyouts, recapitalizations, restructuring, public-to-private transactions, industry consolidation, and growth capital transactions of middle market companies. The firm seeks to invest in a wide range of sectors with a focus on aerospace and defense, automotive aftermarket parts, building products, business services, contract research organizations, electric motors and controls, equipment rental, industrial safety and controls, chemicals, consumer products, distribution, education, energy, financial services, healthcare, industrial products and manufacturing, media and entertainment, insurance, metals, packaging, retail, transportation and logistics, and telecom. It prefers to invest in companies based in the United States, Europe, Asia, and Latin America. The firm typically invests between $75 million and $500 million of equity in transactions valued between $75 million and $2 billion. It invests in companies with an enterprise value between $100 million and $2 billion and a minimum EBITDA of $15 million.

Cerberus Capital Management, L.P., along with its affiliates, is one of the world's leading private investment firms. Through its team of investment and operations professionals, Cerberus specializes in providing both financial resources and operational expertise to help transform undervalued companies into industry leaders for long-term success and value creation. Cerberus holds controlling or significant minority interests in companies around the world. Cerberus is headquartered in New York City with affiliate and/or advisory offices in the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Asia.

Jaguar Financial is on the prowl for undervalued companies it thinks are worthy of investment. The Canadian investment company owns more than a quarter of pipe and tubing manufacturer Lakeside Steel and about 20% of Royal Laser, a manufacturer of steel and wood products for the retail, industrial, and automotive markets. Other holdings include a minority interest in Blue Note Mining, which owns lead/zinc mines in New Brunswick. Prior to its becoming a merchant bank in 2007, the company was known as Jaguar Nickel and operated nickel mining projects in Guatemala.

National Holdings provides securities brokerage services to high-net-worth individuals and institutional investors through subsidiaries National Securities Corporation, vFinance, and EquityStation. National Holdings Corporation also provides investment banking services to micro-, small-, and midcap companies and trades securities. Another subsidiary, National Asset Management, offers investors access to mutual funds, money manager accounts, hedge funds, private equity and venture capital funds, and real estate limited partnerships. With headquarters offices in New York, Seattle, and Boca Raton, Florida, National Holdings has more than 120 retail brokerage locations in the US, Europe, and Latin America.

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