China Resources means "the great land of China, endowed with abundant natural resources". The history of China Resources can be traced back to as early as 1938 when Liow & Company was established in Hong Kong. It was renamed China Resources Company in 1948 and restructured and incorporated under China Resources (Holdings) Co., Ltd. in 1983. In the same year, it relocated to its current headquarters in the China Resources Building on 26 Harbour Road, Wanchai of Hong Kong.Rooted in Hong Kong for over a half century, China Resources has been committed to fostering a better future by observing the proactive and human-oriented ideal. With efforts of many years, China Resources has been grown continuously and established a good business reputation. In over half a century's business in Hong Kong, China Resources has established a strong reputation based on its proactive business strategies, an open corporate culture and a commitment to fostering a better future.Today, it is one of the leading conglomerates in Hong Kong and the Chinese Mainland, with assets totaling around HK$ 240 billion and turnover totaling over HK$ 110 billion. China Resources' businesses touch every facet of people's lives. Its core businesses cover retail, power, breweries, real estate, food, medicine, textiles, chemical products, gas, compressor etc. Moving forward, the company will further develop its core businesses in the Chinese Mainland with Hong Kong as base, striving to become the market leader in each industry. The success of its core businesses will stimulate the further growth of the entire company and create a broader development space.

Founded in 1986, El Dorado Ventures (EDV) is a leading early-stage venture capital firm that invests in disruptive technologies and business models in emerging and high-growth markets, across a broad range of sectors including software, technology-enabled services, communications and emerging technology.El Dorado has a two-decade track record of successful early-stage technology investing, including early investments in Compellent Technologies, Cyras Systems, EarthLink, Efficient Networks, Novellus and NuSpeed Internet Systems. Numerous EDV portfolio companies have gone public or been acquired by major technology companies, including AT&T, Ciena, Cisco Systems, nVidia, Siemens and Texas Instruments.With more than $750 million in capital under management, EDV has a stable group of institutional investors, most of whom have invested with EDV for more than a decade. EDV's limited partners also include a select group of successful entrepreneurs and other technology luminaries, known as EDV's Technology Partner Network, who play an active role as strategic consultants to EDV and its portfolio companies.

Communications Equity Associates was founded in 1973 by CEO Rick Michaels. Communications Equity Associates (CEA) provides investment banking, merchant banking, and private equity services to global companies in the communications, entertainment, and media industries. Communications Equity Associates company offers mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, divestment, and fund-raising services from 10 offices in the US and Europe. Its private equity division manages a family of funds with more than $1 billion under management. CEA has completed more than 900 transactions, most of which are cross-border arrangements. Customers have included such big names as AT&T, IBM, EDS, and Siemens.

Gryphon Investors was founded in 1995 and is based in San Francisco, California. Gryphon Investors is a private equity firm specializing in buyouts, leveraged build ups, and growth capital investments in middle market companies. The firm targets its investments in business services, consumer, specialty retail, and general industry sectors. It typically invests in industries that have high fragmentation, scale advantages, strong underlying demographics, and demand drivers. The firm prefers to invest in companies based in the United States. It prefers to invest between $25 million and $75 million in equity or equity linked securities in companies with revenues between $25 million and $250 million. The firm seeks to acquire controlled or shared controlled position in a portfolio company. It generally exits its investments within three years to five years.

BFC Financial Corporation (BFC) is a diversified holding company. Its business activities consist of Real Estate and Other Activities and Financial Services Activities. BFC’s real estate and other business activities include four business segments: BFC Activities, Real Estate Operations, and Bluegreen’s two business segments; Bluegreen Resorts and Bluegreen Communities. The BFC Activities segment consists of BFC operations, its investment in Benihana, and the other operations. On November 16, 2009, the Company holds 52% interest in Bluegreen Corporation (Bluegreen).

Providence Equity Partners LLC was founded in 1989. Providence Equity Partners LLC is a private equity investment firm specializing in financing growth capital, recapitalizations of family-owned businesses, leveraged buyouts, and take-privates investments. The firm also provides debt investment management, and capital market and debt structuring advice through its capital markets group, with respect to its portfolio companies. It typically invests in media, entertainment, communications, and information sectors with a focus on broadcast, broadband, cable television, music, film, wireline, wireless, newspaper, book, magazine and directory publishing, digital media, print media, network television, cable television content and distribution, television and radio broadcasting, satellites, fixed line and mobile telephony systems, local exchange carriers, marketing services, business outsourcing providers, and Internet infrastructure sectors. The firm typically invests in companies based across the world. It primarily invests between $250 million and $2500 million in its portfolio companies. The firm typically leads its investments and prefers to take a board seat in its portfolio companies.

Axiom Venture Partners provides capital and strategic assistance to rapidly growing high technology companies. Axiom’s professionals bring substantial investing experience and industry expertise to the venture capital process. With over $200M in capital under management, the firm seeks to consider investment proposals in two main industry areas. The first is High Technology which includes Communications, Software, Internet Infrastructure and Information Technology. Biotechnology constitutes the second area.Located in Hartford, Connecticut, Axiom invests actively throughout the United States in early or late stage companies. Approximately 15 Axiom portfolio companies have successfully completed IPO’s in recent years and a number of others are positioned for IPO’s when appropriate market conditions prevail. Given this success, Axiom’s investment returns rank near the top of its industry. Axiom is actively investing its third Partnership, Axiom Venture Partners III.

Harry Clark founded Willdan Financial Services in 1988. Willdan Financial Services offers financial and business consulting services to more than 600 cities, counties, housing and state agencies, port authorities, and school districts in nearly 40 states. Willdan Financial specializes in the planning and implementation of taxes and compliance services for municipal bonds. Willdan Financial also offers utility rate analysis, user fee studies, and annexation studies. It operates offices in California, Arizona, Florida, Maryland, New York, and Texas.

Life Partners Holdings, Inc. was founded in 1991 and is based in Waco, Texas. Life Partners Holdings, Inc. (Life Partners) is a financial services company and the parent company of Life Partners, Inc. (LPI). LPI is engaged in the secondary market for life insurance known generally as life settlements. LPI facilitates the sale of life settlements between sellers and purchasers, but does not take possession or control of the policies. The purchasers acquire the life insurance policies at a discount to their face value for investment purposes. Life settlement transactions involve the sale of an existing life insurance policy to another party. By selling the policy, the policyholder receives an immediate cash payment to use as he or she wishes. The purchaser takes an ownership interest in the policy at a discount to its face value and receives the death benefit under the policy when the insured dies.

Wheeler/Frost Associates is more than happy to roll out all sorts of investment advice. Wheeler/Frost Associates provides a variety of investment planning and management service. Wheeler/Frost Associates' offerings include portfolio management (including active and passive investment strategies), retirement planning, equity compensation consulting, and charitable giving optimization.

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