POCKET CARD CO., LTD. is the Tokyo-based financial services. POCKET CARD CO., LTD. provides credit cards, smart cards, loans, leasing, life insurance, and travel services to customers through roughly 200 automated terminals and staffed locations across Japan. POCKET CARD CO., LTD. sells its services through former parent MYCAL Group's SATY and VIVRE fashion and food stores, but is rapidly expanding via non-MYCAL outlets. POCKET CARD CO., LTD. credit cards are accepted at MasterCard locations in Japan and abroad. Sanyo Shinpan Finance Co. owns more than 50% of POCKET CARD's common stock; ITOCHU Finance Corp. is its second largest shareholder.

Pinetree Capital Ltd. was born out of the ingenuity of Sheldon Inwentash, its Founder and current Chairman and CEO. The Company started in 1992 as a public shell that was formed to invest in technology companies. Pinetree raised initial funds of $2 million for its first venture capital investment. Using proceeds from successful early investments, Pinetree built a portfolio of early stage technology companies through the mid-to-late 1990’s. Typically taking a 20% to 40% interest in each company, Pinetree acted as an incubator to these early stage technology start-ups. Pinetree’s investment philosophy during the dot-com era was to select companies with solid business plans and novel and valuable intellectual property. As a result, Pinetree was exposed to, but survived when the technology bubble burst in 2000-2001.Anticipating that global growth would lead to an unprecedented demand for energy and resources, Pinetree switched its focus from technology and biotechnology to the resource sector in 2002. Today, Pinetree’s strategy is to identify companies with good potential properties and reserves and invest heavily in advance of the projects being developed. Due to numerous global economic and political factors, Pinetree expects the prices of resource and energy-related commodities to remain elevated in the future. With a finger on the pulse of the market and a proven track record of anticipating trends, Pinetree consistently invests ahead of the cycle.

Top Technology Ventures is a UK-based venture capital company which specialises in providing equity funding for early stage technology based growth companies. Founded in 1986, Top Technology Ventures has a strong track record and has earned a reputation for significant expertise in the early stage UK technology sector. In June 2004 Top Technology Ventures became part of IP Group plc (www.ipgroupplc.com).The investment team manages funds totalling approximately £49 million. Top Technology Ventures have a straightforward, open and collaborative approach to investment. Top Technology add value to portfolio companies through Top Technology experience, support on strategic and corporate finance issues and extensive contact network.

Collins Stewart focuses on four main areas: advisory, corporate broking, securities, and wealth management. Collins Stewart plc research tool, Quest, is a proprietary online database and valuation model containing about 3,000 European, US, and Asian companies. Collins Stewart traces its roots to 1991. Collins Stewart plc demerged in 2006, and as a result Tullett Prebon also was formed. Following the demerger, Collins Stewart completed its acquisition of corporate finance advisory firm Hawkpoint. In 2010 Collins Stewart announced plans to grow again with the acquisition of independent wealth management firm Andersen Charnley.

GFI Group is an inter-dealer hybrid brokerage that acts as an intermediary for more than 2,000 institutional clients such as banks, large corporations, insurance companies, and hedge funds. GFI Group Inc. deals primarily in over-the-counter derivatives, which tend to be less liquid and thus harder to trade than other assets. GFI Group Inc. also offers market data and analysis on credit, equity, commodity, and currency derivatives, and other financial instruments. Other products include foreign exchange options, freight, and energy derivatives including electric power, coal, and carbon emissions options. GFI has about 20 offices in North and South America, Europe, and Australasia.

Charterhouse Group, Inc was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in New York, New York. Charterhouse Group, Inc. is a private equity firm specializing in investments in middle market companies. The firm typically invests in buyout, buildup platform acquisitions, buy-and-build, growth capital financing, and recapitalization transactions. It seeks to invest in business services, telecommunication services, healthcare services, and consumer products and service sectors. Within the business service sector, the firm focuses on business process outsourcing including document management, benefit administration, billing, customer relationship management, and legal support; information management services including regulation, risk management, and compliance oriented models; logistics including non-asset based, brokerage models; marketing services including direct marketing and loyalty programs; Specialty Distribution; specialty maintenance, distribution, and repair; specialty staffing; energy services including asset-light, non-commodity price risk opportunities, and energy management and procurement services; vendor management including outsourced repair and maintenance; waste management, janitorial, and landscaping services; specialty maintenance and repair; transaction processing and information processing; specialty leasing; education; security and related service; telecommunication services; information management services including regulation, risk management, and compliance oriented models; specialty waste management; and transaction processing.

ncam (short for innovative capital management) is an asset management firm that acts as a middleman between more than 800 financial planning outfits and individual investors in Germany. Incam's revenue comes from commissions from sales of and referrals to funds managed by such firms as Templeton Global Strategic Services, Pioneer Funds Distributor, Nordea Bank, and AllianceBernstein Holding (formerly Alliance Capital Management). Incam also manages a mutual fund partnership, Fonds Spezial Depot, which allows access to funds with minimum purchase prices that individual investors typically cannot meet.

Bain Capital was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts with additional offices across the United States, Asia, and Europe. Bain Capital, LLC is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in seed, start up, early to late stage, growth capital, emerging growth, corporate divestitures, spin offs, management buyouts, industry consolidations, and family/founder situations. It focuses its investments in information technology, including information data, software, hardware, and Internet; communications, including telecommunications, broadcasting, and media; healthcare, including devices and equipment, distribution and information, providers, and other medical products; industrial and manufacturing including, automotive, steel and non-ferrous metals, industrial equipment, engineered components, and business services. The firm also seeks to invest in retail and consumer products including, traditional retailers, on-line merchandising, consumer products, food and restaurants, and consumer services and finance including banking, credit cards, insurance, mortgage, brokerage, exchanges, transaction processing infrastructure and software, and information.

Mellon Capital is one of the leading institutional investment managers in the United States, with 550 clients representing $177.7 billion in assets under management as of May 31, 2010, which includes assets managed in overlay strategies ($9.4 billion).* Offering a range of investment portfolios, from traditional to alternative asset classes, MCMC are an acknowledged leader in MCMC field.

General Finance Corporation was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Pasadena, California. General Finance Corporation (GFN) has two operating subsidiaries, Royal Wolf and Pac-Van, that leases and sells storage container products, modular buildings and mobile offices through 18 customer service centers (CSCs) in Australia, six CSCs in New Zealand and 26 branch locations across 18 states in the United States. As of June 30, 2009, the Company had 28,227 and 11,347 lease fleet units in the Asia-Pacific area and United States, respectively. The Company does business in two distinct, but related industries; modular space and mobile storage. Pac-Van leases and sells modular space products. In October 2008, the Company acquired Pac-Van, Inc., through a merger of Mobile Office Acquisition Corp., the parent company of Pac-Van, and GFN's wholly owned subsidiary GFN North America Corp.

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