Founder and chairman Gerhard Andlinger started the Andlinger & Company, Inc. in 1976. Andlinger & Company, Inc. is a private equity firm specializing in management and leveraged buyout, acquisition, recapitalization of public and private companies, corporate divestiture, turnaround, and growth capital transactions. The firm prefers to make investments in companies engaged in the renewable energy, energy efficiency and conservation, emission reduction, and waste recovery sectors. It also seeks platform acquisition opportunities in companies engaged in the industrial manufacturing, medical devices, value-added distribution and logistics, graphic arts, scientific instruments, information services and software, engineering services, technology infrastructure, pharmaceutical packaging, and manufacturing sectors. The firm prefers not to invest in the retail, real estate, natural resources, and commodities sectors. The firm seeks to invest in companies headquartered in North America and Europe. It typically invests up to $25 million in portfolio companies with enterprise values between $20 million and $200 million.

Founded in 1998 by Bill Hambrecht, WR Hambrecht + Co is a financial services firm committed to using technology and auction processes to provide open and fair access to financial markets for all its clients. The firm’s impartial auctions have dramatically changed the traditional investment banking landscape by allowing the market to determine pricing and allocations.The OpenIPO® auction, for example, levels the playing field in initial public offerings, allowing individuals and institutional investors to bid online for shares of an IPO. All investors end up paying the same price – a price determined by the auction. The OpenBook® auction for corporate bonds, is an online system that offers transparent, real-time price discovery. OpenFollowOn® auction extends the transparency and real-time price discovery of the OpenBook auction to follow-on equity offerings allowing interactive bidding and gives investors a view into the book as it builds.WR Hambrecht + Co continues to identify markets where auctions will benefit investors and issuers. WR Hambrecht provide underwriting and advisory services for technology and emerging growth companies, as well as technology driven institutional agency brokerage and a fully electronic retail brokerage platform for individual investors. WR Hambrecht + Co is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia. WR Hambrecht Canadian affilliate, WR Hambrecht + Co Canada, is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

TradeCard, Inc. was founded in 1994. TradeCard, Inc. delivers a software-as-a-service supply chain collaboration platform that synchronizes financial transactions with physical events in the supply chain to help customers automate trade transactions from purchase order to payment and chargebacks. The company’s platform offers trading partner management services, including purchase order and terms management, settlement options, invoice presentment, 3PL integration, factory and supplier integration, partner and systems integration, and workflow and event management. Its platform also offers accounts payable and accounts receivable management services, such as document collection and match, discrepancy and resolution management, workflow and approvals, automated payments, and pay discount management. In addition, the company’s platform offers financial management services, including credit management, payment protection programs, financing programs, cash management and forecasting, end-of-period reporting, SOX reporting, and bank integration.

Bombay Stock Exchange is the oldest stock exchange in Asia What is now popularly known as the BSE was established as "The Native Share & Stock Brokers' Association" in 1875. Over the past 135 years, BSE has facilitated the growth of the Indian corporate sector by providing it with an efficient capital raising platform. Today, BSE is the world's number 1 exchange in the world in terms of the number of listed companies (over 4900). It is the world's 5th most active in terms of number of transactions handled through its electronic trading system. And it is in the top ten of global exchanges in terms of the market capitalization of its listed companies (as of December 31, 2009). The companies listed on BSE command a total market capitalization of USD Trillion 1.28 as of Feb, 2010. BSE is the first exchange in India and the second in the world to obtain an ISO 9001:2000 certification. It is also the first Exchange in the country and second in the world to receive Information Security Management System Standard BS 7799-2-2002 certification for its BSE On-Line trading System (BOLT). Presently, we are ISO 27001:2005 certified, which is a ISO version of BS 7799 for Information Security.

3i Infrastructure Limited was founded in 2007 and is based in St. Helier, Channel Islands. It is a subsidiary of 3i Group Plc. 3i Infrastructure Limited is a private equity abd venture capital firm specializing in investments in early stage assets, mature assets, acquisitions, and projects and privatizations undergoing a period of operational ramp-up. The firm primarily invests in infrastructure companies and assets. It seeks to invest across the world, but with an initial focus on Europe, North America, and Asia. The firm primarily invests in unquoted companies, but may also invest in listed companies. It seeks board representation in its portfolio companies.

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.

J.J.B. Hilliard, W.L. Lyons, LLC is a boutique investment banking firm that provides financial advisory services. The firm offers merger and acquisition, private placement, acquisition financing, management buyout, and recapitalization advisory services. Additionally, it provides retail brokerage, securities trading, and business valuation and insurance services. The firm, formerly known as J.J.B. Hilliard & Son, was founded in 1854 and is based in Louisville, Kentucky. As of March 31, 2008, J.J.B. Hilliard, W.L. Lyons, LLC operates as a subsidiary of HL Financial Services, LLC.

KBC Ancora SCA is a Belgium-based company that holds approximately 23% of the shares in the listed KBC Group and, together with Cera SCRL, Maatschappij voor Roerend Bezit van de Boerenbond SCRL (MRBB) and other permanent shareholders, ensures the shareholder stability and continuity of KBC Group. KBC Group is a Belgian company that specializes in retail banking, insurance and asset management activities, as well as in the provision of services to businesses, principally in Belgium and Central and Eastern Europe. KBC Group is also active in private banking and services to businesses in other countries in Europe.

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).

Barclays Stockbrokers is the retail securities brokerage arm of venerable UK banking institution Barclays. In addition to traditional and online stock trading, Barclays Stockbrokers Limited offers investment research, individual savings accounts (ISAs), self-invested personal pensions (SIPPs), and contracts for difference (CFDs; investor is paid the difference between the opening and closing price of a share at the end of a pre-stated term). One of the UK's largest brokers, Barclays Stockbrokers is part of the Barclays Wealth business (which also includes Barclays Financial Planning and Gerrard).

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