National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corporation was founded in 1969 and is headquartered in Herndon, Virginia. National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corporation, a private cooperative association, provides its members with a source of financing to supplement the loan programs of the Rural Utilities Service of the United States Department of Agriculture. The company offers loans to its rural utility system members to enable them to acquire, construct, and operate electric distribution, generation, transmission, and related facilities. It also provides credit enhancements in the form of letters of credit and guarantees of debt obligations. The company manages the lending activities and business affairs of Rural Telephone Finance Cooperative, which provides financing to the rural telecommunications members; and the National Cooperative Services Corporation that provides financing to the for-profit and non-profit entities. As of May 31, 2009, the company's consolidated membership was 1,522, including 897 utility members, 498 telecommunications members, 66 service members, and 61 associates located in 49 states, the District of Columbia, and the 2 United States territories.

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.

Established in 1980, General Atlantic has stakes in about 40 firms. Portfolio companies include AKQA,Lenovo Group, and ZAGAT Survey. General Atlantic helps little fish become bigger fish in the big pond called business. The private equity firm provides both capital and strategic support to public and private growth companies. With about $13 billion in capital under management, General Atlantic focuses its investments on such sectors as energy, financial services, health care, media, and technology. Typical investments range from $50 million to $500 million, and its average investment period lasts from five to seven years.

WestBridge Capital LLP was formed in July 2008 to effect the buyout of WestBridge Fund Managers Ltd (formerly Wales Fund Managers Ltd), an established private equity business. WestBridge invests between £1m and £5m in fast growing, profitable UK SMEs. WestBridge's partners have each been investing in this segment of the market for an average of 20 years, having worked for leading private equity investors, and helping to create many successful and valuable businesses.Wales Fund ulture is that Wales back our investment judgment with Wales own money. The partners have committed a significant cash investment into Wales latest fund, the WestBridge SME Fund, and the deal team will also invest meaningful amounts into each transaction. This creates a genuine alignment of interests with Wales investors and the management teams Wales back. Wales bring more than money to Wales investee companies. Wales fund structure incorporates many entrepreneurs and business angels as well as professional investors. This means that Wales invest "smart money" that potentially opens up a wealth of business contacts to be exploited by investee companies.

MML Investors Services, Inc.®, founded in 1981, is a broker-dealer and registered investment advisor that helps clients achieve their financial goals by offering a wide array of quality investment products and services including mutual funds, variable annuities and variable life insurance, brokerage accounts, portfolio management services, unit investment trusts, and direct participation programs.MML Investors Services, Inc. (MMLISI), in its capacity as a registered broker dealer with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and member SIPC , offers a wide range of securities products and services. In addition, MMLISI is registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and offers investment advisory services in its capacity as a registered investment advisor.

Suffolk Life Group plc was founded in 1971 and is based in Ipswich, the United Kingdom. As of May 6, 2008, Suffolk Life Group Plc operates as a subsidiary of Legal & General Retail Investments (Holdings) Ltd. Suffolk Life Group Plc provides and administrates specialist pension products in the United Kingdom. It offers various self invested personal pensions (SIPPs), including deed poll SIPPs and trust based SIPPs. The company deals in various assets with specialization in the purchase and management of various properties, such as football stadiums, zoos, airfields, gyms, fishing lakes, and town squares as part of the SIPP portfolio. It also provides pensions and investment administration services.

Morgan Keegan is keen on more gain for its clients. A subsidiary of Regions Financial, Morgan Keegan & Co., Inc. offers a range of financial advisory, brokerage, and investment banking services. Morgan Keegan & Co., Inc. Private Client Group serves individual investors in the South, Midwest, and Texas. Morgan Keegan & Co., Inc. Investment Banking segment performs equity and fixed-income sales, trading, and research for institutional clients across the US, as well as overseas. Morgan Keegan & Co., Inc. also manages mutual funds and offers access to IPOs, secondary offerings, and private placements. Morgan Keegan has more than 300 offices in nearly 20 states and some $125 billion of client and trust assets under management.

GIMV NV was founded in 1980 and is based in Antwerp, Belgium with additional offices across the Europe. GIMV NV is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in buyouts, growth capital, and venture capital investments. It prefers to invest in infrastructure and innovative as well as in marketing and communication services companies. Within buyouts and growth capital, the firm seeks to invest in mid-sized established companies in Belgium, France, and Netherlands. In Belgium, it seeks to invest in small and medium sized businesses and typically invests in the following transactions; succession issues in family-owned companies, financial shareholders seeking liquidity, corporate divestitures, and companies in need of financial means to accelerate growth. The firm invests in equity and mezzanine transactions in all sectors. Additionally, it seeks to invest between €5 million ($6.72 million) and €40 million ($53.79 million) in companies with enterprise values up to €150 million ($201.73 million). In France, the firm seeks to invest in small and medium sized businesses and typically invests in the following transactions; succession issues in family-owned companies, financial shareholders seeking liquidity, corporate divestitures, and companies in need of financial means to accelerate growth. It typically invests between €5 million ($6.72 million) and €25 million ($33.62 million) in companies with enterprise values of up to €150 million ($192.46 million).

Guoco Group Limited, an investment holding company, provides principal investment, property development and investment, hospitality and leisure, and financial services. The company operates as a subsidiary of Guoline Overseas Limited. Principal Investment The company’s principal investment business includes equity and direct investments, as well as treasury operations. Its investment infrastructure includes synergistic analytical tools, risk management system, as well as management information system. Its treasury division focuses on global economic conditions, forex and interest rate trends, and strategic trading ideas. It also manages financial exposures of the company and hedging proposals. Property Development and Investment GuocoLand Limited (GLL) is the company’s property arm and operates in Singapore, China, Malaysia, and Vietnam. As of June 30, 2009, the company developed and sold 29 residential projects in Singapore, producing approximately 8,300 apartments and homes. In China, GLL has a land bank of approximately two million square metres in the cities of Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing, and Tianjin. In Malaysia, GLL has established an embedded property operation through its Malaysia subsidiary, GuocoLand (Malaysia) Berhad, with property development, property investment, as well as hotel and resort holdings business. Hospitality and Leisure Business GuocoLeisure Limited (GL) is the company’s subsidiary in the hospitality and leisure business. GL’s operating assets include the Guoman Hotels group (Guoman) and Clermont Leisure (U.K.) Limited (Clermont Leisure) in the United Kingdom and rights to a royalty stream from the production of oil and gas in the Bass Strait in Australia. Guoman owns, leases, or manages 37 hotels (8,400 rooms) in the United Kingdom under two brands, the international deluxe Guoman brand, which includes four Central London landmark hotels with approximately 2,300 rooms, and the four-star ‘Thistle’ brand in 33 properties with 6,100 rooms in London and the provinces. In the Asia Guoman manages two hotels in Malaysia under the Thistle brand standard. Clermont Leisure is a licensed casino operator in the United Kingdom.

Clearstone Venture Partners was founded in 1998 and is based in Santa Monica, California with an additional office in Menlo Park, California. Clearstone Venture Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in seed and early stage investments. It also prefers to make later round investments in highly successful companies already backed by other venture capital firms with whom it has prior relationships. The firm seeks to invest in technology markets, including software, consumer, enterprise infrastructure, enterprise computing, storage, communications, wireless and optical communications, data center, enterprise software, security, micro-processors, imaging and transformative infrastructure, semiconductors, advanced optics, and consumer and business internet sector. With in enterprise software it focuses on new application models and service oriented architectures (Web Services); open source solutions; web-based application delivery models including software as functional media; and Microsoft exchange as a platform for enterprise collaboration. Within consumer sector the firm seeks to invest in mobile phone applications, wireless multimedia, social networking applied to commerce, and where there is a broad intersection of technology and consumer activity.

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