Rathbone Brothers was founded in 1742 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom. Rathbone Brothers Plc, through its subsidiaries, provides investment management services and related professional advice to private individuals, trustees, charities, pension funds, and the professional advisers. It offers discretionary investment management, unit trusts, tax planning, trust and company management, pension advice, and private banking services. The company also provides ethical investment and stock broking advisory services, as well as offers taxation services, such as compliance and planning; probate services; trust services, such as trust formation, administration, accounting, and provision of trustees and protectors; and corporate and family office services. In addition, it offers pension advisory, SIPP administration, financial planning, and offshore fund management services. Rathbone Brothers company has operations in the United Kingdom, Jersey, Switzerland, the British Virgin Islands, and Singapore.

Atlas Venture LLP was founded in 1980 and is headquartered at Waltham, Massachusetts. Atlas Venture LLP is a venture capital firm specializing in seed, early-stage, and select late stage investments. It seeks to invest in the technology and life sciences sectors. Within the technology sector, the firm focuses on components, including silicon, MEMs, nanotechnology, and new materials; systems, including enterprise storage and security appliances, networking and wireless systems, alternative energy and clean-tech, and consumer electronics devices that are created from components and software; software, including business applications, infrastructure, tools, and software for vertical industries like communications, healthcare, and consumer markets; and services for businesses and consumers, typically on the Internet and including E-commerce and digital media. In the life sciences sector, it focuses on: pharmaceuticals; product companies with clinical candidates or molecules in the clinic; drug discovery companies with best in class technologies to accelerate and improve lead generation and optimization, make new targets accessible to drug intervention, and shorten the path to the clinic or change the overall cost equation; select medical device, technology, and tool companies.

Rensburg Sheppards plc is the holding company of a group of companies operating in the financial services industry. The Company, through its subsidiaries, is engaged in the provision of investment management and fund management services. The Company operates in two business segments: investment management and the fund management. The principal activity of the investment management segment is the provision of investment management services to private clients, pension funds and charities. The fund management segment manages unit trusts and segregated mandates. All of the Company’s operations are based in the United Kingdom. The Company’s subsidiaries include Rensburg Sheppards Investment Management Limited and Rensburg Fund Management Limited. In July 2009, the Company announced that the merger of the Rensburg Corporate Bond Trust with the Gartmore Corporate Bond Fund was completed.

Roark Capital Group was named after Howard Roark, the protagonist in Ayn Rand's classic The Fountainhead. For much of the book, Roark's unwavering commitment to his style of architecture put him at odds with the people in power and thus the people who influenced public opinion. While many of his peers altered their architectural designs to gain public approval and fame, Roark was always true to himself and his work, refusing to succumb to conventional wisdom. By the end of the book, the former architectural elite are exposed as frauds, and Howard Roark is discovered as a true visionary.Integrity, according to Ayn Rand, is commitment to one's own thinking and one's own mind. If a man sincerely believes a claim to be true, then he must hold to this belief even though society opposes him. He must think independently and form values that he never sacrifices. Howard Roark's life exemplified the true nature of this independence and integrity.Roark Capital Group's investment style and business philosophy is meant to emulate the life of Howard Roark. Roark Capital hope to invest in outstanding companies in partnership with exceptional operating executives, regardless of conventional wisdom or the latest trend. Further, Roark Capital Group will support its portfolio companies and its management partners, in good times and bad, as long as the fundamental long-term opportunity remains intact. In the end, this patient, independent approach, will generate superior risk adjusted investment returns for Roark Capital Group.

Thomas Weisel Partners company operates in four segments: investment banking, brokerage, equity research, and asset management. Focusing on the technology, industrial growth, health care, mining, and consumer products and services sectors, the company offers services including mergers and acquisition advisory, institutional sales, and wealth management. The firm also offers venture capital investing and other opportunities to affluent private investors and institutional clients. Thomas Weisel Partners was acquired by Stifel Financial for more than $300 million in 2010. Thomas Weisel is now a subsidiary of Stifel.

Direct Sharedeal Limited offers trading in global markets online or by phone, resarch resources, and online trading tools. Traditionally Scotland's only execution-only stockbroker, the company has broadened its scope beyond online trading, and now offers insurance, mortgages, and other financial services through various alliances. Launched in 1999, the Scottish stockbroker signed a partnership with Computershare Ireland in 2004 in order to expand its product base in the Irish market. Direct Sharedeal Limited brokered approval with the Securities Exchange Commission and successfully entered the US market in mid 2005.

OppenheimerFunds Inc. was founded in 1960 and is based in New York, New York with additional offices in Rochester, New York and Centennial, Colorado. OppenheimerFunds, Inc. is a privately owned investment manager. The firm primarily provides its services to individuals, corporations and institutions. It also provides sub-advisory investment-management services. The firm manages separate client focused equity, fixed income, and balanced mutual funds for its clients. The firm also manages mutual funds and hedge funds for its clients. It invests in the public equity and fixed income markets across the globe. The firm operates as a subsidiary of Oppenheimer Acquisition Corp.

Palo Alto Venture Partners was founded in 1996 by Neil Weintraut and Peter Ziebelman; current investments include database software firm Semagix, human resources software developer Employease, and contract management software provider Nextance. Palo Alto Venture Partners is a venture capital firm with $150 million in assets under management. The company typically invests in the first round of fundraising for companies wanting to go public. The firm targets startups developing technology for such industries as business automation, communications infrastructure, and mobile technology.

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.

Olympus Partners was founded in 1988 and is based in Stamford, Connecticut. Olympus Partners is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in financing late stage venture capital, expansion capital, mature and middle market management buyouts, mergers and acquisitions, senior and subordinated debt, growth capital, turnarounds, private financings of public companies, going private transactions, and divestitures. The firm does not invest in seed or early stage. It prefers to invest in business services, healthcare manufacturing and services, logistics and transportation services, consumer products and services, consumer and restaurant, software and information technology services, and financial services. The firm typically invests $20 million for venture capital and growth capital deals to $300 million or more for buyouts. It can either take a controlling stake or a minority ownership position in a company depending on capital and liquidity requirements of the company. The firm seeks to take Board seats in the portfolio companies. It typically holds its investments between three years and seven years.

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