GIP was founded in 2006 as a joint venture between Credit Suisse and General Electric. It is owned and managed by affiliates of the two companies. Global Infrastructure Management gives its investments the power to grow. Doing business as Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP), the company is a private equity firm that makes infrastructure-focused investments in the power and utilities, energy, air transport, water/wastewater, and transportation sectors. Its portfolio consists of about a dozen companies, most of which are located in North America and the UK. The firm typically makes long-term investments; its partners sit on the boards of, and work with management at, its portfolio companies.

HWA HONG CORPORATION LIMITED, originally formed as a partnership, was incorporated on 29 December 1952 as a private limited company under the name of Hwa Hong Manufacturing Company Pte. Limited. On 21 November 1969, it converted to a public company known as Hwa Hong Manufacturing Company Limited and was admitted to the Official List of the Singapore Exchange Limited on 26 July 1979. The name “Hwa Hong Corporation Limited” was adopted with effect from 15 January 1985.The principal activity of HWA HONG CORPORATION LIMITED is that of an investment holding company. The subsidiary companies are primarily engaged in property rental, investment and development, general insurance, investment holding, manufacturers of chemicals and trading of consumer products.

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.

Insight Investment Management was founded in 2002 and is based in London, United Kingdom. Insight Investment Management Limited operates as a subsidiary of HBOS Insurance & Investment Group Ltd. As of November 2, 2009, Insight Investment Management Limited operates as a subsidiary of BNY Mellon Asset Management International Limited. Insight Investment Management Limited is an asset management company with approximately £92.9 billion ($174 billion) assets under management. The firm primarily provides its services to institutional investors. It manages separate client-focused equity, fixed income, and balanced portfolios and hedge funds. The firm invests in public equity, fixed income, and hedging markets and private equity markets across the globe. The firm primarily invests in growth and value stocks employing a fundamental analysis with a top-down and bottom-up stock picking approach to create its portfolios. It conducts in-house research to make its investments.

Novastar Financial, Inc. was founded in 1996. NovaStar Financial, Inc. holds non-conforming residential mortgage securities. The company's majority owned subsidiary, StreetLinks National Appraisal Services LLC, is a residential mortgage appraisal management company. Advent Financial Services LLC (Advent), a majority owned subsidiary of the company, provides access to tailored banking accounts, small dollar banking products and related services to meet the needs of low and moderate income level individuals. The company’s portfolio of mortgage securities includes interest-only, prepayment penalty, and overcollateralization securities retained from its securitizations of nonconforming, and single-family residential mortgage loans. Its portfolio of mortgage securities also includes subordinated mortgage securities retained from its securitizations and subordinated home equity loan asset-backed securities (ABS) purchased from other ABS issuers.

Solera Capital was founded in 1999 with an all-female staff led by CEO Molly Ashby. The firm emphsizes its diversity, with 14 of its 17 professionals being women from backgrounds as diverse as Singapore and Ethiopia. Solera Capital is a private equity investment firm that typically invests between $10 million and $40 million in its target companies. Its portfolio includes natural and organic food company Annie's, consumer health care provider The Little Clinic, and publisher Latina Media Ventures.

Seanergy Maritime Holdings Corp., the successor to Seanergy Maritime Corp., is a Marshall Islands corporation with its executive offices in Athens, Greece. The Company is engaged in the transportation of dry bulk cargoes through the ownership and operation of dry bulk carriers. The Company's initial fleet comprised two Panamax, two Supramax, one Handymax and one Handysize dry bulk carriers that Seanergy purchased and took delivery of in the third and fourth quarters of 2008 from companies associated with members of the Restis family. In August 2009, the Company acquired a controlling interest in Bulk Energy Transport (Holdings) Limited, which owns four Capesize and one Panamax dry bulk carriers. In May 2010, the Company acquired a controlling interest in Maritime Capital Shipping Limited, which owns nine Handysize dry bulk carriers. The Company's current controlled fleet includes 20 drybulk carriers (four Capesize, three Panamax, two Supramax and one Handymax and 10 Handysize vessels) with a total carrying capacity of approximately 1,292,544 dwt and an average fleet age of 12.7 years.

Village Ventures is a seed and early stage venture capital firm focusing on the consumer media/retail and financial services sectors. Village Ventures strategy is to partner with leading entrepreneurs creating innovative products and solving complicated problems in those industries.When it comes to seed and early stage investing, village ventures believe that there is strength in numbers. True early stage firms are necessarily small, and therefore often lack the scale required to effectively support their entrepreneurs. Village Ventures has built a platform, which it offers to other seed and early stage firms, to provide for collaboration, co-investment and administrative cost sharing. This network is a powerful tool to expand village ventures reach and make us more effective partners for village ventures portfolio companies.

Manhattan Bridge Capital, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides short term, secured, non–banking, commercial loans to small businesses in the United States. Manhattan Bridge Capital, Inc. loans are secured by collateral, such as real estate, receivables, and marketable securities, as well as accompanied by personal guarantees from the principals of the businesses. Manhattan Bridge Capital, Inc. also develops Nextyellow, a software solution; and Nextyellow.com, a related Web site, which allow retail businesses and other service providers to reach prospective customers and clients for their goods and services. Manhattan Bridge Capital offers its loan products primarily through the company’s officers and independent loan brokers. Manhattan Bridge Capital, Inc. was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Levine Leichtman Capital Partners is an independent investment firm that invests in middle market companies located in the United States. LLCP manages approximately $5 billion of institutional capital on behalf of itself and its worldwide network of investors. These investors include state and corporate pension plans, insurance companies, fund of funds, family offices, foundations and endowments. Established in California in 1984 by Arthur E. Levine and Lauren B. Leichtman, the Firm has expanded geographically with offices in Los Angeles, Dallas, Chicago, and New York. The Firm has a proven business philosophy of investing along side entrepreneurs who believe in their company’s growth and want substantial equity ownership.LLCP’s private equity activities are conducted through Levine Leichtman Capital Partners III, L.P. (Structured Equity Fund), Levine Leichtman Capital Partners Deep Value Fund, L.P. (Distressed Debt Fund) and Levine Leichtman Capital Partners California Growth Fund (California focused Small Cap Fund). LLCP’s leveraged finance activities include the management of bank loans, high yield bonds and special situation investments through structured investment products. LLCP’s ability to invest senior floating rate debt through common equity provides us the flexibility to finance the entire capital structure thereby shortening the investment process and bringing more certainty to transaction closings.

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