Harris Williams was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Richmond, Virginia with additional offices in Massachusetts, California, Pennsylvania, and Minnesota. Harris Williams LLC, doing business as Harris Williams & Co., is a boutique investment banking firm that provides financial advisory services to aerospace; automotive and heavy duty truck; building products and materials; Chemicals; commercial and industrial equipment; consumer or business services; consumer products; marketing; energy and power; food and beverage; forest and paper products; furniture; healthcare and life sciences; media and entertainment; metal fabrication; mining; business outsourcing; packaging; chemical; retail; technology; telecommunications; textiles; and transportation and logistics sectors. The firm offers mergers and acquisitions advisory, management buyouts, and fairness opinions services. Its clientele includes American Tower Corporation, Procter & Gamble, Schering-Plough, Oglebay Norton, Linesoft Corporation, Snyder Industries, Pioneer International, Banc One Capital Partners, Cedar Creek Partners, and Allied Capital.

PSG Solutions Plc company owns stakes in real estate, manufacturing, and technology companies. Its primary holding is PSG Franchising, which (through some 80 franchised offices) provides private searches and reports for residential properties throughout England and Wales. It also owns Audiotel International, which makes surveillance equipment, and specialist packaging company Moore & Buckle. PSG Franchising cut workers and closed offices when the UK's Home Information Packs (HIPs) system was abolished in 2010; it was among the nation's leading providers of HIPs. Investment company Southwind controls the company and has offered to buy it outright.

Madrona Venture Group was founded in 1995 and is based in Seattle, Washington. Madrona Venture Group is a venture capital firm specializing in early stage investments. The firm prefers to invest in the technology sector including enterprise software and services, consumer software and services, consumer Internet, commercial software and services, digital media and advertising, wireless, networking, and infrastructure sectors. It typically invests in the Pacific Northwest region. The firm prefers to be a lead investor. It seeks to take board membership in its portfolio companies.

Hamon Investment Group believes in Asia's potential to provide investors with long-term capital growth, and it wants to put your money where its mouth is. Hamon is an independent asset management firm specializing in Asian investments. It offers open-ended funds and individual discretionary accounts to corporations, family trusts, financial institutions, pension funds, and private investors. Its flagship fund, Hamon Asian Market Leaders Fund, invests in regional Asian companies and emerging blue chip growth companies. The Hamon Selected Asian Portfolio fund makes strategic equity investments in listed Asian growth companies. Its Asian iTech Fund invests in listed equities of Asian IT and electronics companies.

Westar Capital LLC is a private investment firm established in 1987 that provides capital to acquire established growth companies in partnership with management. In special situations, Westar also provides equity financing for corporate expansion, restructurings or acquisitions and will purchase significant equity positions from large shareholders seeking liquidity.Westar collaborates with existing management to grow promising middle market companies into industry leaders over a five-to-ten year period. In all cases, we arrange for management to own a significant share of the equity. At Westar we believe superior investment performance is best achieved when a company is jointly owned by its managers and experienced investors who have the financial resources, long-term perspective and expertise to build highly successful businesses.

Terry McDaniel & Company provides tailored investment counseling and portfolio management services for individuals, charitable foundations, and employee benefit plans. The investment advisory firm, which was founded in 1985, has more than $400 million in assets under management. Terry McDaniel & Company focuses on equity investing, but also invests in some fixed-income securities. It concentrates on companies that offer essential products and services, and it invests in them long term.

Summit Partners' dough rises a little later rather than earlier. Summit Partners funds later-stage companies, preferring those that are profitable and growing. It invests in a range of industries, including business and financial services, energy, health care, communications, media, industrial and consumer products, software, and semiconductors. Summit Partners' private equity investments range from $30 million to more than $500 million; venture capital investments range between $5 million to $30 million. Summit Partners also provides mezzanine debt financing. Its current portfolio includes stakes in more than 50 firms in North America, Europe, and Asia.

GAMCO Investors, Inc., (GBL) is a provider of investment advisory services to mutual funds, institutional and private wealth management investors, and investment partnerships, principally in the United States. Through Gabelli & Company, Inc. (Gabelli & Company), it provides institutional research services to institutional clients and investment partnerships. It generally manages assets on a discretionary basis and invests in a variety of United States and international securities through various investment styles. Its revenues are based primarily on the firm’s levels of assets under management (AUM) and to a lesser extent, incentive fees associated with its various investment products. It also offers a series of investment partnership (performance fee-based) vehicles that provide a series of long-short investment opportunities, both market and sector specific opportunities, including offerings of non-market correlated investments in merger arbitrage, as well as a fixed income strategy.

Redpoint Ventures was founded in 1999 by former partners from Brentwood Venture Capital and Institutional Venture Partners. Redpoint Venture capital firm invests in early-stage high-tech companies in the US and China, especially those involved in broadband infrastructure, enterprise systems and software, interactive media, mobile applications, semiconductors, and energy and the environment. The firm has more than $2 billion under management. Current holdings include interests in Azul Systems, Buzz Media, HomeAway, LivePlanet, NextG Networks, and Responsys; notable former investments include MySpace.com, Netflix, Tivo, and Juniper Networks.

RiskMetrics Group, Inc. provides risk management and corporate governance products and services to participants in the global financial markets. It operates in two segments, RiskMetrics and Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS). The RiskMetrics segment provides multi-asset, position-based risk, and wealth management products and services. Its RiskManager mark-to-market risk system integrates consistently-modeled market data with analytical models and processing capabilities to address its clients’ risk reporting requirements. This segment’s clients license RiskManager as a secure, interactive Web-based application service or as an outsourced risk reporting service. It provides clients with solutions based on credit-event risk through its CreditManager application, as well as solutions for financial advisors at private banks through its WealthBench application. The ISS segment provides corporate governance and specialized financial research and analysis services to institutional investors and corporations. It offers an outsourced proxy research, voting, and vote reporting service to assist clients with their proxy voting responsibilities.

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