Hargreaves Lansdown was founded in 1981 and is based in Bristol, the United Kingdom. Hargreaves Lansdown Plc, through its subsidiaries, provides a range of investment products, investment services, and financial planning and advice to private investors in the United Kingdom. Its flagship service, Vantage, is a direct-to-private investor fund supermarket and wrap platform. Vantage offers clients the administrative convenience of being able to hold and manage their investments, including unit trusts, OEICs, equities, bonds, investment trusts, and cash. The company also provides investment management, independent financial advisory, and stock broking services to private investors, and advisory services to companies in respect of group pension schemes.

Riordan, Lewis & Haden was founded in 1982. Riordan, Lewis & Haden is a private equity firm specializing in investments in middle market companies. The firm typically invests in growth capital, management buyouts, shareholder’s liquidity, and recapitalizations. It makes growth investments for working capital needs, additional production capacity, strategic acquisitions, and geographic expansion. The firm makes investments in business services, high value added manufacturing, specialty distribution, healthcare, and financial services. I t prefers to invest in home improvement, lawn and garden, storage and organization, sporting goods, outdoor recreation, luggage and travel accessories, and pet products. Within business services, the firm focuses on IT services, systems engineering, consulting, information security, and specialized data services. It looks for branded food, consumer products, precision components, and complex materials in high value added manufacturing sector. For specialty distribution, the firm focuses on healthcare products, plastics, and food. Within healthcare sector, it particularly invests in rehabilitation services, assisted living, devices, and home care. The firm focuses on specialty insurance and specialty finance for financial services sector. It typically, makes investments in companies headquartered Western U.S. with a focus in California.

Rodman & Renshaw Capital Group, Inc., through its principal subsidiary, Rodman & Renshaw, LLC, provides investment banking services to public and private companies operating in the life science/healthcare, energy, metals/mining, financial services, and cleantech sectors in the United States and China. Rodman & Renshaw Capital Group, Inc. offers corporate finance in a range of financing alternatives, including private placements, private investments in public equity, registered direct offerings, and underwritten public offerings. Rodman & Renshaw Capital Group, Inc. also provides strategic advisory services on a range of transactions comprising mergers, acquisitions, and asset sales, as well as provides sales and trading, and equity research services. In addition, Rodman & Renshaw Capital Group, Inc. designs investment conferences that bring together companies, institutional investors, business development executives, and experts. Further, the company makes principal investments in early-stage biotechnology and life sciences companies. Rodman & Renshaw Capital Group, Inc. was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Columbia Ventures Corporation (CVC) is hoping to recycle the business savvy it applied to the aluminum manufacturing business and use it to generate returns in the telecommunications field. The private equity firm was launched in 1987 to invest in an aluminum smelter plant in Washington state. It now owns a number of manufacturing facilities, including Columbia Commercial Building Products (aluminum windows) and Specialty Chemical Products LLC (silica extraction from crushed glass). In recent years the firm has turned its attention to international telecom providers; those holdings include One Communications, THUS Group, and Magnet Networks (Internet, telephone, and video provider in Ireland).

In-Q-Tel, Inc. was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia. In-Q-Tel, Inc. is a non-profit private equity and venture capital firm specializing in start-ups, early venture, mid venture, late-stage investments. The firm also provides bridge financing. It seeks to invest in research and development programs, emerging and established companies, universities and research labs. The firm makes investments in application software and analytics including software applications for enterprise, departmental, and individual users; software-based analytics to automate and support human analysis; tools to exploit text, multimedia, and geospatial-based data in native language and format; knowledge management and collaboration; search; categorization and publishing; application integration; visualization; translation; geospatial design; and simulation and modeling. Within bio, nano, and chemical technologies, it seeks to invest in the extraction and characterization of trace materials from the environment, the characterization of unknown bulk materials, the on-site determination of individual human traits for IC purposes, point-of-care medical technologies outside of a laboratory or clinical environment, tracking and/or authentication of both individuals and objects, and the enablement of new IC capabilities from advances in material science.

Brait S.A. is an international investment company. The Company is engaged in the business of structuring, raising and management of investment funds that are classified as alternative assets. Its product portfolio includes private equity funds, mezzanine debt funds and a range of hedge fund solutions. In addition, the Company invests in investment programmes in these product areas. These investments are made predominantly in South Africa. Investors include global and South African institutions. The Company operates through two segments: Private Capital operations, which incorporates all activities in the private capital markets, and Public Markets operations, which incorporates all activities in the public or highly traded securities markets. Private Capital includes private equity funds, proprietary investing, sponsored funds, mezzanine debt, and fund of private equity funds. Public Markets includes multi-management and capital management.

Williams Coal Seam Gas Trust (the "Trust"), incorporated in 1992, was formed to acquire and hold certain net profits interests (Royalty Interests) in proved natural gas properties located in the San Juan Basin of New Mexico and Colorado. The only assets of the Trust, other than cash and temporary investments being held for the payment of expenses and liabilities and for distribution to Unitholders, are the Royalty Interests. The Trust will not terminate prior to January 1, 2003, except upon the affirmative vote of the holders of not less than 75% of the outstanding Units to liquidate the Trust.

Terra Firma Capital Partners Limited was founded in 1994. Terra Firma Capital Partners Limited is a private equity firm specializing in buyouts of large, asset rich, and complex businesses in need of operational and strategic change. It seeks to invest in those companies that are under-performing in some way. The firm typically invests in mature companies based in Europe. It exits its investments by means of sale or listing on a public stock market.

vCap Investments LLC company was founded as Alexander Securities in 1998 by David Granzotti, who launched the company's first hedge fund the following year. vCap Investments is an asset management firm that specializes in four areas: asset management for clients who need investment and financial planning; the private client group, through which is focuses on high-net-worth clients; alternative investments, such as hedge funds; and capital introductions, best described as introducing hedge fund managers to investors. It also offers futures and currency trading.

Fortune Industries, Inc. company, formerly known as Fortune Diversified Industries, Inc., was incorporated in 1988 and is based in Indianapolis, Indiana. Fortune Industries, Inc. is a holding company, engaged in providing human resources outsourcing services through co-employment relationships with their clients. On November 30, 2008, the Company completed a transaction to sell all of the outstanding shares of common stock of the wholly owned subsidiaries James H Drew Corporation, Nor-Cote International, Inc., Fortune Wireless, Inc. and Commercial Solutions, Inc. On November 30, 2008, the Company sold or discontinued operations in its Wireless Infrastructure, Transportation Infrastructure, Ultraviolet Technologies and Electronics Integration segments. During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2009 (fiscal 2009), the Company’s operating segment was Business Solutions segment.

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