MVC Capital, Inc. was founded in 1999 and is based in Purchase, New York with an additional office at Chicago, Illinois. MVC Capital, Inc. (MVC Capital) is a non-diversified, closed-end management investment company. MVC Capital provides equity and debt investment capital to fund growth, acquisitions and recapitalizations of small and middle-market companies in a variety of industries primarily located in the United States. MVC Capital investment objective is to seek to maximize total return from capital appreciation and/or income. It focuses on achieving its investment objective by providing equity and debt financing to companies that are, for the most part, privately owned (Portfolio Companies). As of October 31, 2009, its portfolio company investments consisted of common and preferred stock, other forms of equity interests and warrants or rights to acquire equity interests, senior and subordinated loans, and convertible securities. MVC Capital is managed by The Tokarz Group Advisers LLC.

United Western Bancorp, Inc. (United Western Bancorp) is a unitary thrift holding company. The Company’s operations are conducted primarily through United Western Bank (United Western Bank or the Bank), UW Trust Company (UW Trust), Matrix Financial Services Corporation (Matrix Financial), UWBK Fund Management, Inc., (Fund Management) and UW Investment Services Inc. (UWIS), all of which are wholly owned subsidiaries of the Company. As of December 31, 2009, it had eight full service banking locations in the Colorado Front Range marketplace (downtown Denver, Cherry Creek, Hampden, Centennial, Boulder, Loveland, Fort Collins and Longmont), and a loan production office servicing the Aspen and Roaring Fork Valley market areas.

Kinetic Investment Partners specializes in small Australian companies. It performs cash flow analysis to identify undervalued investment prospects. Kinetic Investment Partners company believes that this method can help it avoid accounting irregularities. It also looks at management, business strategy, the industry in which a company operates, and other factors. Formerly HSBC Asset Management (Australia) Limited (AMAU), it was sold by the UK banking goliath to Australian investment firm Challenger Financial Services Group in 2005.

Austin Ventures has corralled themselves a heapin' helpin' of a whole different breed -- the nerd herd. The venture capital firm offers funding mainly to software, computer hardware, semiconductor, communications, and business services startups. Focused on investment opportunities in the Southwest (and still with a heavy Texas concentration despite looking outward), Austin Ventures typically invests from $100,000 to $20 million per transaction, usually holds its investments long-term, and almost always takes a seat on the acquired firm's board. Austin Ventures also assists clients in hiring management, setting up compensation plans, and going public.

Entrust Capital was founded in 1997 and is based in New York City. Entrust Capital Inc. is an employee owned investment manager with approximately $3.1 billion in assets under management. The firm primarily provides its services to individuals, typically high net worth individuals. It also manage accounts for families, pension and profit sharing plans, non-profit organizations, and corporations. The firm manages equity and fixed income portfolios. It invests in the public equity and fixed income markets of the United States. In addition, the firm also makes alternative hedged investments. It invests in stocks of small-cap, mid-cap, and large-cap companies for its equity investments.

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.

Mediobanca S.p.A., through its subsidiaries, provides lending and investment banking services in Italy and internationally. Segments The company operates in three segments that include Corporate and Investment Banking, Principal Investing, and Retail and Private Banking. Corporate and Investment Banking The company’s corporate and investment banking products and services include lending and structured finance comprising corporate lending, leasing, export finance, subsidies and other funding assistance, and credit analysis and rating advisory; capital market services consisting of equity capital markets, equities and derivatives trading, securities, debt capital markets and securitization, credit products sale, funding, ALM, treasury and fixed income derivatives, proprietary trading, and equity portfolio; and advisory services related to strategic objectives, extraordinary financing, liabilities restructuring, corporate restructuring, company valuations, relations with authorities. Principal Investing Principal Investing includes minority/majority stakes in listed/unlisted corporates of medium/large size which the company invests in with a view to assist them in their plans for growth over the medium term.

Hamilton BioVentures is a venture capital firm (with $100 million under management) investing in talented entrepreneurs bringing new Life Science technology enterprises to market. Hamilton BioVentures invests in companies developing dramatically better treatments (biopharmaceuticals and medical devices) for major human diseases and other medical conditions. Hamilton BioVentures investments generally take the form of direct equity in early-stage companies located on the West Coast. Hamilton's management team possesses decades of real-world experience across a broad base of in-depth entrepreneurial, managerial, technical, scientific and financial roles. Hamilton's principals actively support and collaborate with the entrepreneurs in Hamilton portfolio. Hamilton typically take seats on the Boards of our portfolio companies, and “roll up our sleeves” to deliver the value of Hamilton relationships and experience to help these firms succeed.

Alexander David Securities (formerly Griffin Group) looks out for the little guy. Alexander David Securities Group plc provides corporate brokerage services to small and midsized businesses and institutional brokerage services to micro-cap and small-cap fund managers. Alexander David Securities Group plc also conducts research on small companies. Alexander David Securities Group plc offers financial advice and trading of equities, futures, options, and other financial instruments to high-net-worth private clients as well. In early 2009 the former Griffin Group bought UK-based brokerage house Alexander David in a reverse merger and assumed the acquired company's name.

Fortress Investment Group LLC (Fortress) is a global alternative asset manager that raises, invests and manages private equity funds, liquid hedge funds and hybrid funds. Fund investors provide the capital for these funds, which it invests and manages on their behalf. Fortress earns management fees based on the size of its funds, incentive income based on the performance of its funds. Its offering of alternative investment products includes private equity funds, liquid hedge funds and hybrid funds. Hedge funds allow periodic contributions and redemptions of capital by investors and make relatively shorter-term, more liquid investments. Hybrid funds share certain of the characteristics of both private equity and hedge funds. It refers to these investment products, collectively, as the Fortress Funds. As of December 31, 2009, it managed alternative assets in three core businesses: Private Equity, Liquid Hedge Funds and Hybrid Funds.

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