GS Capital Partners V, L.P. specializes in investments in mature companies, leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations, and growth investments to fund acquisitions or expansions. The fund prefers to invest $50 million or less in Chinese private businesses and participates in ownership reorganization in Chinese state-owned enterprises with investments above $200 million each.

Co-chairman Lawrence Lawson III and Robert Barr, president of North American operations, founded the company in 1996. Lincoln International LLC is a boutique investment banking firm that provides financial advisory services. The firm offers strategic alliances, joint ventures, and mergers and acquisitions advisory; private placements; fairness opinions; valuations; Initial Public Offerings (IPO); and financial restructuring services. Lincoln International is based in Chicago, Illinois with additional offices in New York, New York; Los Angeles, California; Frankfurt, Germany; Vienna, Austria; and Paris, France.

Cordova Ventures was founded in 1989 and is based at Alpharetta, Georgia. Cordova Ventures is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in investments in privately-held companies at varying stages of development, including seed and start-up, early-stage and later-stage growth, and small to medium size buyout. The firm focuses on companies in the information technology, communications, financial services, healthcare services, telecommunications, industrial technologies, and real estate development equity financing. It seeks to invest in United States based companies, but prefers companies located in the Southeast. The firm typical participates as the minority investor with typical investments ranging from $1 million to $5 million. It prefers to invest in companies with proprietary technology. The firm seeks to exit its investments within 5 years through acquisition and IPO.

Beecken Petty O'Keefe & Company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. Beecken Petty O'Keefe & Company is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in middle market buyouts, recapitalizations, and growth stage transactions. Within recapitalization and buyouts, the firm seeks to invest in small to medium sized companies and focuses on leveraged acquisitions of corporate subsidiaries, recapitalizations of founder-owned and operated entities, and management-led acquisitions of independent companies. It typically invests in healthcare industry with a focus on specialty distribution including alternate site (non-hospital) and pharmaceutical niches; provider and payor outsourcing including contract management, staffing, utilization and disease management, billing, collections, and other financial service providers.

Gartmore Investment Limited is privately owned investment manager. The firm primarily provides its services to other pooled investment vehicles. It also caters to banking or thrift institutions, charitable organizations and corporations. The firm manages mutual funds for its clients. It invests in public equity and fixed income markets across the globe. The firm operates as a subsidiary of Gartmore Investment Management Ltd. Gartmore Investment Limited is based in London, United Kingdom.

Warburg Pincus LLC is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in all stages of a company’s life cycle from founding startups, early-stage financings, growth equity investments, and developing companies to restructurings, recapitalizations, and management buyouts of mature businesses. The firm also invests in change in control leveraged buyout transactions, divisional spin-outs of non-core corporate assets, minority private investments in public companies, and special situations transactions with a focus on acquisition of undervalued companies. It typically invests in financial services; healthcare; media, information and communication technology, and telecommunications; energy; consumer and industrials; and real estate sectors. Within healthcare and life sciences, the firm seeks to invest in healthcare services, medical devices, biotechnology, and specialty pharmaceuticals. In medical devices, it focuses on investments in diabetes, interventional cardiology, interventional neurology, orthopedics, and urology/gynecology.Within financial services, the firm primarily invests in specialty and consumer finance, private banking, payment and transaction processing companies, insurance companies, financial technology, exchanges, banks, depository institutions, and asset and wealth management. Within technology, media, and telecommunications, it typically invests in software, financial technology, business services, semiconductors and systems, and information and Internet. In software, the firm invests in industry-specific enterprise applications, information security, SaaS, open source, and alternative business models, data center automation, and business intelligence, analytic applications, and decision support. Within financial technology, it focuses on technology/ technology-enabled solutions or software, transaction processing/outsourcing/utilities/exchanges, and data.

State Teachers Retirement System of Ohio is one of the nation’s premier retirement systems, serving 467,200 active, inactive and retired Ohio public educators. With investment assets of $54.7 billion (including short-term investments) as of June 30, 2009, STRS Ohio is one of the largest public pension funds in the country. In 2008–2009, STRS Ohio paid more than $4.6 billion in service retirement, disability and survivor benefits plus $558 million for optional health care coverage. Select a topic from the list to the left to find out more about STRS Ohio administration, governance and investments. STRS Ohio operates under the guidelines of Chapter 3307 of the Ohio Revised Code (R.C.) as enacted by the Ohio General Assembly. It is legally separate from and fiscally independent of state and local governments.

Wells Fargo Advisors (formerly Wachovia Securities) is the securities brokerage arm of Wells Fargo & Company. Wells Fargo merged its brokerage with Wachovia Securities in 2009 after it acquired Wachovia. With more than $1 trillion worth of assets under management and more than 6 million client accounts, Wells Fargo Advisors offers a range of brokerage, asset management, and financial advisory services. Its Envision program tailors investment plans for mostly affluent clients. Wells Fargo Advisors, LLC Capital Markets unit performs investment banking services.

Fortress International Group, Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in consulting, planning, designing, building, and maintaining facilities, such as data centers, trading floors, call centers, network operation centers, communication facilities, laboratories, and secure bunkers. The company offers services for electrical, mechanical, telecommunications, security, fire protection and building automation systems that are critical to the mission-critical facilities lifeblood. Services The company’s services include technology consulting, engineering and design management, construction management, system installations, operations management, and facilities management and maintenance. It provides its services to both government and private sector customers. Technology Consulting Energy and Green Solutions: The company developed services that identify energy savings for the customer on both the supply side from utility sources and demand side in terms of consumption of an existing data center. Supply side services include utility rate analysis in deregulated areas; obtaining energy certificates and carbon offset certificates for capital expenditures on both renewable energy based initiatives, as well as replacement initiatives; and participation in demand response programs. Demand side initiatives include energy audits; facility consolidation; and performance based contracting initiatives that create capital from energy savings on replacement projects.IT Solutions: These services are partially performed by its staff and done in conjunction with its teaming partners and include data center strategic planning; data center optimization; virtualization and consolidation of servers and storage devices; and data center relocation planning and implementation. Real Estate Solutions: These services include assisting customers with disposal and acquisition of mission-critical assets; site assessments, evaluation and selection; conceptual design and in depth budget and cost analysis; financial modeling and market research; utility assessment; telecommunication service assessment; cost and payback analysis; and phased investment strategy for development of speculative space. Capital solutions: These services include finding sale and lease back alternatives for its customers; matching customers up with leasing partners to finance equipment purchases; finding equity partners for its customers developing speculative projects; and performance contract financing for gy related capital projects. Design and Engineering/Planning and Programming: This phase represents the initiation of project development and typically includes establishing project goals and a preliminary budget and schedules, setting technical parameters and requirements, and determining project team members and the overall level of effort required of the team.

Redpoint Ventures was founded in 1999 by former partners from Brentwood Venture Capital and Institutional Venture Partners. Redpoint Venture capital firm invests in early-stage high-tech companies in the US and China, especially those involved in broadband infrastructure, enterprise systems and software, interactive media, mobile applications, semiconductors, and energy and the environment. The firm has more than $2 billion under management. Current holdings include interests in Azul Systems, Buzz Media, HomeAway, LivePlanet, NextG Networks, and Responsys; notable former investments include MySpace.com, Netflix, Tivo, and Juniper Networks.

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