ThinkTank Holdings LLC was founded in 1999 by entrepreneur Scott Blum. ThinkTank is a venture capital firm with investments in about eight companies in entertainment, media, technology, and e-commerce. Among these are electronic retailers Buy.com and Sell.com as well as exercise site Yoga Today, and brand name developer ThinkBig Media. Four of its early investments have been sold. On top of raising capital for portfolio companies, ThinkTank provides merger and acquisitions advice, strategic business partnerships, legal support, business development, and marketing services. It also takes controlling positions in most of its portfolio companies.

Principal Global Investors, LLC is an asset management arm of Principal Life Insurance Company. It primarily provides its services to individuals and high net worth individuals. The firm also caters to banking or thrift institutions, investment companies, foundations, endowments, public and corporate retirement plans, Taft-Hartley plans and global governments, pension and profit sharing plans, pooled investment vehicles, charitable organizations, state or municipal government entities, and other businesses. It manages separate client focused equity, fixed income, and real estate portfolios. The firm also manages mutual funds and offers specialized overlay and advisory services. It invests in the public equity, fixed income, and real estate markets across the globe.

The State of Wisconsin Investment Board was founded in 1985 and is based in Madison, Wisconsin. The State of Wisconsin Investment Board (SWIB) is a privately owned investment manager. The firm primarily provides its services to Wisconsin retirement system. It also manages accounts for state investment fund and other state trust funds, including injured patients and families compensation fund, state life insurance fund, local government property insurance fund, historical society endowment fund, and tuition trust fund (EdVest). The firm manages separate client focused equity and balanced funds for its clients. It also manages index funds for its clients. The firm invests in the public equity, fixed income, and alternative investment markets across the globe, with a focus on the United States. It typically invests in real estate, private equity, and natural resources to make its alternative investments. The firm invests in value stocks employing a fundamental research with a tactical asset allocation for its multi-asset investments. It invests in companies of small-cap, mid-cap, and large-cap to create its funds.

Brewin Dolphin Holdings owns Brewin Dolphin Limited (formerly Brewin Dolphin Securities), which is one of the UK's largest investment and brokerage firms. Founded in the 18th century, Brewin Dolphin serves more than 130,000 private, corporate, and institutional clients and has more than 1,100 representatives. The company's primary services include discretionary or representative investing, tax efficiency savings accounts, financial planning, and advisory services. Brewin Dolphin has nearly 40 offices around the UK and manages more than $33 billion for its clients.

Asset Alliance Corporation was founded in 1996 and is based in New York City. Asset Alliance Corporation, the parent company of Asset Alliance Group, is an investment management holding company that buys preferred interests in other privately held investment management firms specializing in alternative investment strategies. The company usually buys an equity interest in established mid size firms that utilize hedging and other risk-modifying strategies when making investments. Asset Alliance Corporation incorporates over 13 affiliate hedge fund managers and investment products for which it provides advisory services.

McAdams Wright Ragen was formed in 1998 by Brooks Ragen and Scott McAdams, both formerly associated with the regional firm Ragen MacKenzie. McAdams Wright Ragen, Inc., the regional broker-dealer offers equity and fixed-income trading, asset management, and investment banking services such as corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions advice to area companies. McAdams Wright Ragen, Inc. also performs equity research on northwestern and national stocks and acts as a market maker for some 550 community bank stocks. Offering investment management and financial planning services to retail clients, McAdams Wright Ragen, Inc. has some $3 billion in assets under management. Employee-owned MWR was founded in 1999 by Ragen MacKenzie alums Brooks Ragen and president and CEO Scott McAdams.

ECI Partners LLP was founded in 1976 and is headquartered in London, United Kingdom with an additional office in Manchester, United Kingdom. ECI Partners LLP is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in expansion and development capital, finance for acquisitions, management buyouts and buy-ins, institutional buyout, turnarounds, middle market, and refinancing deals. It does not invest in early-stage companies. The firm seeks to make investments in all sectors except property with a focus on consumer and leisure, support services, manufacturing, software, IT and communications services, healthcare, outsourcing, and business improvement. Within the support services sector it prefers to invest in document management education, environmental services, financial services, inspection services, media, recruitment, services benefiting from the aging population, specialist logistics, and white collar outsourcing. Within healthcare it focuses investments in healthcare services, pharmaceuticals, medical technology including devices and diagnostics, and healthcare IT. It primarily invests in unquoted and smaller quoted companies based in the United Kingdom or has substantial United Kingdom business. It also seeks to make investments in companies based in South Wales.

Madison Dearborn Partners, LLC ("MDP"), based in Chicago, is one of the most experienced and successful private equity investment firms in the United States. MDP has raised over $18 billion of capital since its formation in 1992. Madison Dearborn Partners, LLC is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in buyouts of private or publicly held companies, or divisions of larger companies; recapitalizations of family-owned or closely held companies; balance sheet restructurings; acquisition financings; and growth capital investments in mature companies. The firm prefers to invest in basic industries, communications, consumer, financial services, healthcare, and real estate sectors. Within the basic industries sectors, it focuses on energy and power, paper, packaging and forest products, chemicals, building products, metals and mining, diversified industrial, natural resources, automotive, food, refining, and general manufacturing industries. In the communications sector, the firm invests in media including broadcast television, radio station groups, and publishing companies; wireless communications sector including mobile telephone operators, paging service providers, high-capacity data and voice transmission service providers, and satellite service providers; and wireline telecommunications including local exchange carriers, rural telephone operators, and cable television system operators.

Fauchier Partners LLP was founded in 1994 and is based in London, United Kingdom. Fauchier Partners LLP is a privately owned investment manager. The firm provides its services to pension funds, asset management firms, private banks, charities and endowments, insurance companies, and family offices. It primarily manages fund of hedge funds for its clients. The firm invests in the hedge funds. It seeks to invest in a wide range of hedge fund strategies including long/short equity investment, macro, equity hedged high volatility, equity hedged low volatility, specialist credit, volatility trading, and event driven strategy. The firm employs a combination of qualitative and quantitative analysis.

Private Equity Investor PLC is an investment company, incorporated in the UK, which invests principally in early to pre-IPO stage information technology companies and has the tax benefits of investment trust status.Information technology encompasses internet, e-commerce, intranet technologies, communications, information services and high value-added electronic components. Private Equity Investor invests principally in unquoted, specialist venture capital funds and limited partnerships focusing on early, expansion, late and pre-IPO stage information technology companies primarily in the United States of America.The directors believe that Private Equity Investor provides UK investors with an outstanding opportunity to invest in a diversified portfolio of mainly US information technology related investments which, because of their early to pre-IPO stage, can be acquired at valuations which give the opportunity of significant capital appreciation.

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