Novak Biddle Venture Partners was established in 1997 to provide equity financing and assistance to the management of young, information technology companies. NBVP is backed by a number of the country’s most prestigious limited partners, and has over $580 million under management. Novak Biddle Venture seek investment opportunities where the combination of ideas, dollars, experience, and relationships can create long-term, sustainable value. While Novak believe that the vast majority of business plans Novak receive have many of the makings of viable companies, Novak are looking for additional key features in the businesses in which Novak invest.

CME Group was founded in 1898 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. CME Group Inc. offers access to all asset classes for futures products from a single electronic trading platform, and on trading floors in Chicago and New York City. The Company offers markets in futures and options on futures contracts based on the United States interest rate yield curve, equity indexes, foreign exchange, agricultural commodities, energy, metals and alternative investment products. Its products are traded through the CME Globex electronic trading platform, its open outcry auction markets in Chicago and New York City or through privately negotiated transactions that the Company clears. It serves the risk management and investment needs of customers around the globe. As of December 31, 2009, the Company had approximately 140 clearing firms. In April 2009, the Company acquired the Carvill Hurricane Index from Carvill America Inc. and renamed it the CME Hurricane Index.

Frazier & Company was founded in 1991. Frazier & Company provides venture and growth equity capital through its Frazier Healthcare Ventures and Frazier Technology Ventures units. The former provides early-stage capital to companies in the biopharma, medical devices, and healthcare services sectors, while the latter funds companies in such markets as wireless technology, software, and networking. The companies in which Frazier Healthcare primarily invests in major health care hubs in California, Massachusetts, North Carolina, and Washington. Combined, the firms have more than $1.3 billion under management.

Liontrust Asset Management PLC (Liontrust) is an investment holding company. Liontrust provides portfolio management services, which are targeted primarily at professional investors and advisers. It manages unit trusts, individual savings accounts, offshore funds, absolute return funds, pooled pension funds, and segregated institutional accounts. The Company’s subsidiaries include Liontrust Investment Funds Limited, Liontrust Investment Services Limited, Liontrust European Investment Services Limited, Liontrust International (Guernsey) Limited, and Liontrust International (North America) Inc.

White River Capital is a holding company that specializes in auto finance. Subsidiary Coast Credit offers subprime auto financing in more than 20 states. Visa International Service Association acquires the subprime receivables from franchise and independent auto dealers. Another unit, Union Acceptance, oversees a portfolio of non-prime automobile receivables. In 2005 UAC was bankrupt and stockholders were looking for a way to squeak out value in their investment. The shareholders agreed to exchange UAC for shares of White River. After the swap White River bought the similar, yet more successful, Coast Credit. The holding-company-hat-trick allowed UAC to carry its business forward even after it declared bankruptcy in 2002.

The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. was founded in 1971 and is based in New York, New York. The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. is a global exchange group that delivers trading, exchange technology, securities listing, and public company services across six continents. The Company’s offerings include trading across multiple asset classes, market data products, financial indexes, capital formation solutions, financial services and market technology products and services. It operates in three segments: Market Services, Issuer Services and Market Technology. In the United States, it operates The NASDAQ Stock Market, a registered national securities exchange. In addition, in the United States, it operates a second cash equities trading market, two options markets, a futures market and a derivatives clearinghouse. In Europe, it operates exchanges in Stockholm (Sweden), Copenhagen (Denmark), Helsinki (Finland), and Iceland as NASDAQ OMX Nordic and exchanges in Tallinn (Estonia), Riga (Latvia) and Vilnius (Lithuania) as NASDAQ OMX Baltic.

Hercules Technology Growth Capital, Inc. was founded in December 2003 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California with additional offices across United States. Hercules Technology Growth Capital, Inc. (HTGC) is a specialty finance company that provides debt and equity growth capital to technology-related companies at all stages of development from seed and emerging growth to expansion and established stages of development, which include select publicly listed companies and lower middle market companies. The Company primarily finances privately-held companies backed by venture capital and private equity firms and also may finance certain select publicly-traded companies that lack access to public capital or are sensitive to equity ownership dilution. HTGC sources its investments through its principal office located in Silicon Valley, as well as its additional offices in the Boston and Boulder.

RBC Wealth Management company offers private banking, asset management, brokerage, and estate and trust services in more than 20 countries. About half of the company's revenue, however, comes from outside Canada, where the company caters to more than 35,000 individuals and institutions. It has about $500 billion of assets under administration and about $245 billion of assets under management. RBC Wealth Management boasts more than 4,500 financial consultants, advisors, private bankers, and trust officers, and has about 200 offices throughout the US.

HSBC Private Bank comprises the private banking operations of UK banking bigwig HSBC Holdings. A subsidiary of principal holding company, HSBC Private Banking Holdings (Suisse) and operating through several subsidiaries of its own, the company specializes in private banking and trustee services such as investment advisory and wealth and tax planning for wealthy individuals and families. Banking services include deposit products, debit and credit cards, lines of credit, loans, high-end residential mortgages and home equity loans, and other related services. HSBC Private Bank group also provides specialty advisory services to charities, foundations, media companies, and diamond and jewelry concerns.

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.

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