Kline Hawkes & Co. was founded in 1994 and is based in Los Angeles, California. Kline Hawkes & Co. is a private equity firm specializing in investments in middle market and expansion stage companies. It invests in buyouts, growth capital, and change of control situations. The firm prefers to invest in information technology with a focus on telecommunications, information technology infrastructure, hardware infrastructure, enterprise software; healthcare with a focus on healthcare services and home healthcare; and industrial and business services companies with a focus on business process outsourcing including billing, logistics, staffing, aerospace and defense, environmental, and industrial manufacturing. The firm seeks to in companies based in United States with a focus on Southern California. It typically invests in companies with revenues between $2 million and $75 million. The firm invests between $5 million and $10 million, but will consider investments up to $15 million with buyouts or in change of control situations.

Active Media Services, Inc. was incorporated in 1984 and is headquartered in Pearl River, New York. Active Media Services, Inc., doing business as Active International, provides marketing and business solutions. It provides media services, including national broadcast, local broadcast, digital and emerging media, print, out-of-home, youth media, direct response-broadcast, hispanic and multicultural, and mobile services; and retail marketing services, such as retail consulting, merchandising, promotions, environments, and media. The company also provides travel and meeting services, which include hotel rooms, meetings and events, incentive, recognition, loyalty programs, cruises, resorts, special events, and trade shows; and freight and logistics, such as business-to-business, retail, institutional and wholesale delivery channels, warehousing and distribution, pick and pack, supply chain consulting, inventory management, customs brokerage, domestic, ocean and air import/export, point-to-point delivery, and truckload and LTL freight. In addition, it offers music licensing and inventory services.

Draper Fisher Jurvetson was founded in 1985 and is based in Menlo Park, California. Draper Fisher Jurvetson is a venture capital firm specializing in seed, start-up, and early stage investments in emerging markets. The firm primarily invests in information technology, energy, clean technology, consumer media and advertising, consumer services and transactions, life sciences, mobile and wireless, new media, Internet content, e-commerce, telecommunications, nanotechnology, enterprise applications and services. Within information technology, it focuses on web-based applications and services, software infrastructure including peer-to-peer infrastructure, data communications and bandwidth enhancement, information services, and wireless applications, services, and technologies. Within nanotechnology and life sciences, the firm invests in bio-nano and biomimetic innovations, MEMS, novel materials, molecular electronics, medical devices and therapeutics, molecular diagnostics, bioinformatics, agbio, bio-energy, and various platforms and tools. Within clean energy technologies, it invests in energy generation, transmission, utilization and storage, water purification, grid optimization, industrial sensing and monitoring, and advanced materials and catalysts.

North Castle is a leading private equity firm focused exclusively on consumer-driven product and service businesses that benefit from two long-term trends: (i) "Healthy Living" or the desire to live healthier, longer and more active lives, and (ii) the "Aging" of the Baby Boomer generation, which is expected to foster strong growth in segments of the consumer industry. These predictable and irreversible trends are fueling consumer interest and significant growth in our target markets. North Castle makes control private equity investments in consumer-driven product and service companies located in North America, with enterprise values ranging from $50 million to $500 million. Our target markets often include industries that are highly fragmented providing opportunities to build market leaders and create value through leveraged buyouts, growth capital infusions and strategic acquisitions.North Castle is a hands-on, value-added investor. We utilize our cumulative knowledge and network, which results from our industry focus, to partner with management and entrepreneurs to create market-leading companies. The strength of our focused approach yields significant benefits to our partners and portfolio companies. North Castle is led by a seasoned team of managing directors, who have spent more than 10 years working together, and are supported by six additional investment professionals. In addition, North Castle has sixteen outside operating advisors that provide relevant experience in North Castle's areas of focus, actively participate in management of the portfolio and supplement North Castle's operating and sourcing capabilities. This unique mix of senior resources differentiates North Castle and gives it a distinct competitive advantage in developing and generating new opportunities for its portfolio companies.

George Mairs, Jr. founded the firm in 1931, and George Power joined in 1944. Mairs and Power's two flagship funds -- Mairs and Power Growth Fund (opened in 1958) and the Mairs and Power Balanced Fund (1961) -- have some $2 billion in assets under management. The firm also manages about $3 billion in assets for retail customers, benefits managers, and charitable foundations. Mairs and Power relies on a conservative investment strategy, where it seeks growth stocks that it holds for long periods of time. It invests heavily in companies based in the Midwest, where the firm is based, because of its familiarity with the region.

Solium Capital Inc. provides technology and services for the administration of equity-based incentive and savings programs for public corporations in Canada and the United States. The company services its clients through a Web-based, realtime application called Shareworks. Shareworks is an online solution that integrates the management of multiple equity plan types, including stock options, share appreciation rights (SARs), share units, restricted stock awards, and employee share purchase and holdings plans on one platform. As of December 31, 2008, the company had approximately 8,998 participants. For corporate clients, Shareworks streamlines an administrator’s workflow with regards to the issuance of incentives, the exercise of incentives, reporting of incentives, and day-to-day maintenance of the incentives database. It provides constant online access to reports for securities regulators, internal management, and financial disclosure purposes. Shareworks empowers plan participants by providing direct access to the financial markets through its national online brokerage partners. StockVantage StockVantage is a Web-based solution, which uses the company’s Shareworks technology to deliver solutions for companies with smaller stock option plans.

FBR Capital Markets Corporation is a full-service investment banking, institutional brokerage and asset management company. In addition, it makes principal investments, including merchant banking investments. The Company’s subsidiaries are FBR Capital Markets & Co. (FBR & Co.), FBR Capital Markets International, Ltd. (FBRIL), Financial Services Authority (FSA), and FBR Fund Advisers, Inc. (FBR Fund Advisers). Its segments include capital markets, which include investment banking and institutional brokerage and research; asset management, and principal investing, which includes merchant banking. The Company’s capital markets business is conducted by its investment banking and institutional brokerage professionals through its United States and United Kingdom broker-dealer subsidiaries. The Company’s investment adviser subsidiaries principally manage a family of mutual funds. On August 31, 2009, the Company acquired Watch Hill Partners LLC.

Home BancShares, Inc. (HBI) is a bank holding company. Home BancShares Company is primarily engaged in providing a range of banking services to individual and corporate customers through its wholly owned community bank subsidiary, Centennial Bank (the Bank). Home BancShares Company is engaged in providing a range of commercial and retail banking and related financial services to businesses, real estate developers and investors, individuals and municipalities. The Bank has locations in central Arkansas, north central Arkansas, southern Arkansas, the Florida Keys and southwestern Florida. As of December 31, 2009, it conducted business through 45 Arkansas branches located in central Arkansas, two branches in north central Arkansas, two branches in southern Arkansas, nine branches in the Florida Keys and three branches in southwestern Florida. In March 2010, Home BancShares, Inc. and Centennial Bank announced that the bank has assumed substantially all deposits and purchased certain assets of Key West Bank.

ETCapital Limited was set up in 1992 as an investor in high growth businesses based in southern England. Since 1998, ETCapital has invested QTP, a specialist zero-stage technology fund, focused on the globally significant cluster of science based businesses around Cambridge, Oxford and London. prior to that it managed what is now the HSBC UK Enterprise Fund for East Anglia & the Home Counties investing in early stage businesses, both technology and non-technology, based in East Anglia and the northern Home Counties. In 2004, ET Capital took on the management of the residual investments of Cambridge Research & Innovation Limited, an early-stage technology fund also investing in the Cambridge cluster.

Piper Private Equity invests in UK companies valued up to £25 million through management buyouts, management buyins, and other transactions, typically putting in £2 million to £10 million per deal. Piper Private Equity company invests primarily in businesses residing in the retail, leisure, consumer products, and travel markets. Several of its portfolio companies are targeted at female consumers, such as the Pitcher & Piano pub chain. Piper Private Equity has also invested in the Las Iguanas and Tootsies casual-dining restaurant chains, partnering with Phoenix Equity Partners on the Tootsies deal. It sold its stake in Tootsies in 2005.

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