Salix Ventures was founded in 1997 to pursue high growth investment opportunities in health care services companies (including health care information technology). Salix Ventures to assist fellow entrepreneurs in developing the strategies, building the management teams, and obtaining the financial resources necessary to create great companies.Salix Ventures is unique in that Salix founding partners are former health care entrepreneurs with more than 25 years of operating experience managing successful venture backed health care services companies. Salix have a deep knowledge of health care and of building companies from the ground up.Salix Ventures manages two venture capital partnerships with more than $180 million of committed capital. Salix limited partners include some of the nation's leading university endowments, corporate pension plans, and financial institutions. With offices in Nashville, Tennessee and Andover, Massachusetts, Salix is a national investor focused on investing in and supporting the best management teams and companies, regardless of location.

Named after a 17th century war ship, Brigantine Advisors wants to help its clients navigate the vast investment world. The firm provides investment research and advisory services to corporations, venture capitalists, private equity firms, and a variety of funds (i.e. mutual, hedge, bonds). It conducts research and analysis of technology, retail, and energy companies on behalf of its clients, focusing on market analysis, mergers and acquisitions, product development, financing, and investor relations. In addition, the firm provides trading services through a partnership with a third-party company. Brigantine Advisors operates offices in New York, Boston, and San Francisco.

Palomar Ventures was launched in 1999 by veteran venture capitalists to focus on early stage information technology companies that demonstrate the potential for exceptional growth and market leadership. The founding principle of Palomar is teamwork; we work closely with our portfolio companies to assist them in achieving their objectives. The partners at Palomar have contributed their strategic insight, network of corporate relationships, and recruiting skills to assist in building nearly 50 public companies.Palomar Ventures is currently investing Palomar III, a $225 million fund, bringing total capital under management to over $500 million. A typical investment involves $2 million to $5 million in capital, and we prefer to act as a lead or co-lead investor early in the process of value formation. We believe that beginning early with a company is the best way to utilize our experience in building value rapidly by focusing the company on a small number of key milestones.Given their personal experience in running venture-backed companies, Palomar's partners understand the frustrations of the entrepreneur in dealing with the venture community. Our philosophy includes a commitment to responding rapidly to new ideas and business plans, and to forming partnerships with the goal of creating sustainable companies for the long term.

School Employees Retirement System of Ohio was formed in 1937 and is based in Columbus, Ohio. School Employees Retirement System of Ohio (SERS) provides pension, survivor, disability, and post-retirement health care benefits active and retired non-teaching public school employees of Ohio. As a limited partner, School Employees Retirement System of Ohio is a public pension fund with $8 billion in assets under management. The fund engages in the following alternative investment strategies: buyouts/corporate finance, international private equity, and venture capital. It has a net internal rate of return target of the S&P 500 + 3%. The fund allocates 1% to 5% of its total assets to alternative investments.

International Assets Holding Corporation and subsidiaries operates (INTL) as a financial services group focusing on select international markets, committing its capital and expertise to market-making and trading of financial instruments, currencies and commodities and to asset management. The Company’s activities are divided into five functional areas: international equities market-making, foreign exchange trading, commodities trading, international debt capital markets and asset management. The Company provides these services to a group of wholesale customers, including major investment banks, commercial banks, brokers, institutional investors, corporations, charities, governmental organizations and non-governmental organizations located worldwide. On September 30, 2009, the Company completed the acquisition of FCStone Group, Inc. (FCStone).

Nollenberger Capital Partners Inc. offers investment banking, brokerage, and investment advisory services, promoting its personalized approach as an alternative to the financial mega-firms. Nollenberger Capital Partners Inc. investment banking practice focuses on capital raising, underwriting, and advisory services for growth companies valued at less than $1 billion, as well as for public sector clients. Nollenberger Capital Partners Inc. private client group serves wealthy individuals and families with more than $1 million to invest; Nollenberger Capital Partners Inc. has more than $1 billion under management overall. Nollenberger Capital Partners is trying to make its mark in the crowded money management arena.

Cruttenden Partners is trying to root the evil out of money. The investment firm says it invests in companies that "help create a better world." It targets companies with strong management teams and offers services, such as financing, structuring, exiting, equity optimization. With a focus on early and late-stage investments, Cruttenden Partners' portfolio includes holdings in the financial, biomedical, and technology industries, such as SRS Sound Design (audio electronics), eGoose (financial advisory products for online traders), and PRISMedical Corporation (fluid therapies).

D. E. Shaw & Co., L.P. was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in New York, New York with additional offices in North America, Europe, and Asia. D. E. Shaw & Co., L.P. operates as an investment and technology development company. Its activities range from the deployment of investment strategies based on mathematical models or human expertise to the acquisition of existing companies and the financing or development of new ones. The company's investment activities include quantitative strategies based on mathematical and computational models, and qualitative strategies based on the analysis of human experts. It also provides debt and equity financing to healthy and financially distressed companies; makes venture capital investments in early and later stage ventures; and organizes and develops new technology-oriented ventures.

AEA is a pioneer in the private equity industry, having been founded in 1968 by the Rockefeller, Mellon, and Harriman family interests and S.G. Warburg & Co. With over 40 years of investing experience, AEA has established a track record of achieving superior returns as a leading private equity partner to middle market companies. AEA focuses on control buyouts in four industry sectors: value-added industrial products, specialty chemicals, consumer products and services involved in these sectors.AEA's investors, whom it calls “Participants,” include an extraordinary network of more than 70 of the world's leading business executives, industrial families and influential institutional investors. Since its inception, AEA has relied on its Participants to provide advice and insights on a broad range of issues that are essential to its investment mission. Their considerable experience in operating businesses and global network of relationships are invaluable assets that assist AEA to both evaluate prospective investment opportunities and work with portfolio company management teams to achieve superior investment returns.At the core of AEA is a strong focus on improving all aspects of a business by working closely with the management teams of AEA's portfolio companies to improve operations, strategies, and financial performance, as well as by drawing on AEA's network of Participants for their industry expertise and relationships.

Weeden & Co. works to weed out information so it can provide clients with institutional equities trading, fixed income sales and trading, and research services. Weeden & Co. LP specializes in difficult-to-execute transactions, serving some 1,500 institutional clients. Weeden's research division, which includes The Leuthold Group, produces a variety of analytical reports on equity and fixed-income markets. Research affiliates cover such sectors as technology, health care, biotechnology, and REITs. Brothers Frank and Norman Weeden founded the company in 1922, and the company has been employee-owned (more than 80%) since 1986. Weeden & Co. LP has offices in Boston; Chicago; Greenwich, Connecticut; Minneapolis; and San Francisco.

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