Since 1988 the ELCA has comprised the American Lutheran Church, the Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches, and the Lutheran Church in America, which together represent almost 11,000 congregations. Although its members are looking forward to a more lasting reward, the ELCA Board of Pensions tries to help them toward a little heaven on earth during their retirement years. The Board of Pensions of The Evangelical Lutheran Church In America (or ELCA Board of Pensions) provides health, retirement, and other benefits and services for some 50,000 pastors, employees, and their families connected to the Evangelical Lutheran Church In America.

Sagentia Group was founded in 1986. Sagentia Group PLC, together with its subsidiaries, operates as a technology consulting, product development, and IP licensing company that commercializes various science and technology solutions. The company creates, develops, and delivers business opportunities, products and services for its clients. Its product portfolio includes Ebonex, a conductive ceramic material; Cap-Track and MuTrack, which are contact-less inductive sensing technologies; and a contact-less inductive sensing ‘Pad’ technology. The company also assists business leaders to create strategies for technology, innovation, and growth. In addition, Sagentia Group offers asset management services, and property and central services; and proprietary Internet protocol licensing services. It offers its products and services in the areas of engineering, materials, telecommunications, life sciences, business innovation, and electronics.

Allegis Capital was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California with additional offices in Santa Monica, California and San Francisco, California. Allegis Capital is a venture capital firm specializing in investments in seed and early-stage startup companies. The firm also provides incubation services. It typically invests in developing enabling technology and infrastructure, which serve emerging information technology markets with a focus on enabling hardware devices, enterprise software solutions, broadband and wireless delivery technologies, wired and wireless communications, digital media and commerce enablers, internet delivery platforms and services, security, and information services. The firm prefers to invest in the western region of United States and selected investments in Asia. It seeks to invest between $3 million and $5 million in its first investment to acquire an initial 20 % ownership stake in companies and provides capital support for subsequent financings. The firm typically acts as the lead investor and will partner with other venture capital firms. It prefers a board seat on its portfolio companies.

TICC Capital Corp. was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut. TICC Capital Corp. (TICC) is non-diversified, closed-end investment company. TICC is a specialty finance company principally providing capital to primarily non-public, small and medium-sized, technology-related companies. Its investment objective is to maximize its portfolio’s total return, principally by investing in the debt and/or equity securities of technology-related companies. The Company’s primary focus is on seeking current income by investing in non-public debt securities. TICC’s debt investments may include bilateral loans (loans where it holds the entirety of a particular loan) and syndicated loans (those where multiple investors hold portions of that loan). The Company may also seek to provide its stockholders with long-term capital growth through the appreciation in the value of warrants or other equity instruments that it may receive when it makes debt investments, or equity investments. It may also invest in publicly traded debt and/or equity securities.

Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (Berkshire) is a holding company owning subsidiaries engaged in a number of diverse business activities. The most important of these are insurance businesses conducted on both a primary basis and a reinsurance basis. Berkshire also owns and operates a large number of other businesses engaged in a variety of activities. Berkshire’s insurance and reinsurance business activities are conducted through approximately 70 domestic and foreign-based insurance entities. Berkshire’s insurance businesses provide insurance and reinsurance of property and casualty risks world-wide and also reinsure life, accident and health risks world-wide. Berkshire’s insurance underwriting operations are comprised of sub-groups: GEICO and its subsidiaries, General Re and its subsidiaries, Berkshire Hathaway Reinsurance Group and Berkshire Hathaway Primary Group. On February 12, 2010, the Company acquired all of Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation (BNSF).

KPS Capital Partners, LP was founded in 1997 and is based in New York, New York. KPS Capital Partners, LP is a private equity firm specializing in investments in, turnarounds, financial restructurings, businesses in bankruptcies, follow on acquisitions, employee buyouts, failed acquisitions, corporate divestitures, carve-outs, and spin-offs of middle market companies. In case of turnarounds, the firm seeks to invest in of underperforming or distressed businesses. It targets business facing closure, liquidation, and with a history of operating losses. In case of business in bankruptcies, it seeks to invest in, fund reorganizations of, and create new companies to purchase operating assets of, companies facing bankruptcy or asset sale under Section 363. The firm targets businesses burdened with, insufficient liquidity; excessive debt; operating in default of obligations to creditors; or lacking capital for investment, modernization, or growth, in order to eliminate, reduce or restructure the company's liabilities. The firm also seeks to invest in operating businesses, including divisions, subsidiaries or individual plants of larger companies capable of operating as stand-alone companies.

Symphony Technology Group (STG) is a strategic private equity firm with the mission of investing in and being a partner in building great software and services companies. In addition to capital, STG provides transformation expertise to enable its portfolio companies to deliver more value to clients to retain and attract the best talent and to achieve best-in-class business performance. All STG portfolio companies are expected to grow through innovation. STG's current portfolio consists of nine global companies with combined revenue of $2.5 Billion and 15,000 employees spread evenly across North America, Europe and Asia.

N M Rothschild & Sons is the merchant banking arm and UK branch of the Rothschild family's financial empire. N M Rothschild & Sons company's services include investment banking, commercial banking, private banking, and asset management. Family company Rothschilds Continuation Holdings of Switzerland controls the firm, along with other Rothschild entities. The French and UK branches of the family consolidated their international banking operations through a joint venture known as Concordia, which owns a controlling interest in Rothschilds Continuation Holdings.

AdCapital capitalizes on investing in high-technology companies on a temporary basis. The group, which began as a spinoff from Berliner Elektro Holding in 2000, has invested in such companies as assembly equipment manufacturer BE Semiconductor Industries, control engineering firm Bavaria Digital Technik, and medical diagnostic equipment group Erich Jaeger. It also helped finance Softpro, a leading vendor of signature verification systems. AdCapital invests in enterprises at all stages, including IPOs and privatizations of listed companies.

Multi Service was established in the late 1970s to provide credit cards to the trucking industry. The Multi Service card allows truckers to purchase fuel and oil at more than 3,100 truck stops across North America. Multi Service's transaction processing programs and specialized software help trucking companies control purchases, plan their budgets, and report fuel taxes. Multi Service has operations in Australia, the Netherlands, Mexico, and the US. Multi Service also provides fleet card services for small to midsized trucking companies, consolidated billing and reporting services for after-market parts, and processing services for trucking companies that utilize toll roads and tunnels in Europe.

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