Janney Montgomery Scott offers a bevy of financial products and services through about 100 offices up and down the East Coast. One of the largest regional broker-dealers in the US, the firm offers fixed-income brokerage, equity research, wealth management, and retirement planning, and acts as a market maker for approximately 150 NASDAQ-listed stocks. Janney Montgomery Scott LLC also provides investment banking services such as public offerings, private placements, and mergers and acquisitions support to emerging and middle-market companies. Janney has more than $13 billion of assets under management. Janney Montgomery Scott LLC was established in 1832 and acquired by The Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company 150 years later.

Integral Capital Partners was founded in 1991 and is based in Menlo Park, California with an additional office in Baltimore, Maryland. Integral Capital Partners is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in investments in expansion-stage private and growth-stage public companies and buyout opportunities. The firm typically invests in all stages of a company’s development, beyond the start up phase. It also seeks to invest in venture and public stages of a company. The firm prefers to invest in companies in the life sciences and information technology sectors. Within the life sciences sector, it focuses on investments in emerging medical technologies, health care information systems, and companies targeting the cardiology and oncology markets. In the information technology sector, the firm seeks to invest in the Internet, software, software as a service, information security, computer services, and consumer technology markets. It also makes investments based on the themes communications-centric computing, real-time computing, and mobility.

Foresight, which was founded in 1984 by Bernard Fairman and Peter English, manages four capital trusts and owns more than £90 million under management. Foresight Group, formerly Foresight Venture Partners, provides venture capital primarily to technology companies. Its portfolio includes companies involved in manufacturing, IT services, environmental, retail, and communications. The group's investments include nanoscale engineering company Oxonica, retail payment systems designer Nomad, generator services provider Ozone, investment bank software designer BlueCurve, and telephone and energy services supplier Telecom plus.

WELLSPRING CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, founded in 1995, is a leading middle-market private equity firm that manages more than $2 billion of private equity capital. The firm’s objective is to bring partnership, experience and value creation to each investment. By teaming up with strong management, Wellspring is able to unlock underlying value and pursue new growth opportunities through strategic initiatives, operating improvements and add-on acquisitions. The firm functions as a strategic rather than tactical partner, providing management teams with top-line support, M&A experience and financial expertise, and access to resources. Wellspring has one of the best track records in private equity; its capital and reputation bring certainty to every transaction.

Tejas Securities Group, Inc. is a wholly-owned subsidiary and a primary business operating unit of Tejas Incorporated (Pink Sheets: TEJS), a publicly traded holding company.Tejas Securities Group, Inc. is a registered Broker-Dealer offering brokerage and investment banking services. In addition to dealing with a broad product offering serving value-based institutional and retail investors, the firm specializes in the analysis of distressed and high yield corporate debt, high yield municipal bonds, mortgage-backed securities and special situation securities.

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.

HWA HONG CORPORATION LIMITED, originally formed as a partnership, was incorporated on 29 December 1952 as a private limited company under the name of Hwa Hong Manufacturing Company Pte. Limited. On 21 November 1969, it converted to a public company known as Hwa Hong Manufacturing Company Limited and was admitted to the Official List of the Singapore Exchange Limited on 26 July 1979. The name “Hwa Hong Corporation Limited” was adopted with effect from 15 January 1985.The principal activity of HWA HONG CORPORATION LIMITED is that of an investment holding company. The subsidiary companies are primarily engaged in property rental, investment and development, general insurance, investment holding, manufacturers of chemicals and trading of consumer products.

The Cypress Group L.L.C. firm owns stakes in companies in the automotive, financial services, manufacturing, and media and entertainment industries. Its portfolio includes holdings in about 10 firms, including Cooper-Standard Automotive, Republic National Cabinet, and Scottish Re Group Limited. Cypress Group is an active investor that often becomes involved in the day-to-day management of its portfolio companies. The firm has made more than $4 billion in investments since it was founded in 1989. One of its most well-known past investments includes Cinemark.

Matrix Asset Management was formed in early 2010 to group the assets of Matrix, SEAMARK, and GrowthWorks under one umbrella. The combined companies operate offices across Canada and manage about $3 billion in assets. Matrix Asset Management strives to be the investment point-of-origin for its clients. Part mutual fund manager, part private equity firm, Matrix Asset Management is the holding company for SEAMARK Asset Management, which offers portfolio management services to institutional and high-net-worth individuals; and GrowthWorks, a venture capital firm and fund manager. Other holdings include Mavrix Fund Management, a mutual funds manager and subsidiary of GrowthWorks.

Kinetic Ventures is a leading venture capital investor in high growth, industry defining communications, information and power/clean technology companies. For over two decades Kinetic have partnered with outstanding entrepreneurs to build world-class enterprises. Kinetic is gratified to be partners with many remarkable entrepreneurs in the creation of industry defining companies like Ciena, VerticalOne, Corvis, Cerent, Peace Software, Broadware, APX, Calix, Altierre and SmartSynch.Since 1985, Kinetic have organized and managed eight early stage venture funds. Kinetic Ventures first seven funds were corporate venture funds capitalized entirely by Fortune 500 scale U.S. and European Electric and Gas Utilities investing from their balance sheets. During our 23-year history Kinetic have worked closely with the senior executive teams of Kinetic corporate investors in understanding their pressing market problems and how emerging communications, information and power technologies can solve their most vexing business requirements. As a result, Kinetic has deep understanding of Fortune 500 corporate buying behavior and has access, via its Corporate Advisory Board, to senior executives from the Power, Communications and Information Technology fields. Kinetic combines this deep market understanding with seasoned venture capital investing experience. Kinteic Ventures three managing directors have a combined 50 years working together executing Kinetic's early-stage investing model.

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