VIEL & Cie was founded in 1920 and is based in Paris, France. VIEL & Cie, through its subsidiaries, provides interdealer broking, online trading, and private banking solutions to institutional and retail investors. The company offers financial products, such as money market products, interest rate and credit derivatives, bonds, interest rate futures and index futures currency options, and equity derivatives; and commodity-related products, such as precious metals, energy products, and pulp and paper. It also operates in the over-the-counter markets and regulated markets in London, New York, Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Singapore. In addition, the company offers online broking services; online trading, account maintenance, custodial, and private asset management services for private investors; a trading platform for asset management centres; and back office and order transmission services.

Founded in 1988 by President Kay Chandler, the firm has some $2 billion under management. Chandler Asset Management is an investment adviser specializing in the management of fixed-income portfolios for institutional investors. The firm offers portfolio management, analysis, and accounting as well as cash flow modeling, compliance reporting, and client training. Its investment strategies include short-term fixed income, core fixed income, and 1-5 year fixed income. Public agencies, healthcare companies, foundations, endowments, and corporations make up Chandler's customer base.

SES Advisors, Inc. benefits from helping companies manage their ESOP plans. An investment banking firm, SES Advisors offers consulting, financing, and legal services to companies who use or intend to use ESOPs, or Employee Stock Ownership Plans, as a retirement plan option. The company helps clients transition into ESOPs, offers administrative services to companies with existing ESOPs, and provides legal services through its affiliate Steiker, Fischer, Edwards & Greenapple, P.C.. SES Advisors provides services for various industries across the US, including construction and manufacturing companies, and engineering firms.

Impact Venture Partners is an early stage venture capital firm. Impact Venture are a team of company builders that believes that pursuing one's goals is the most satisfying expression of human talent. Impact Venture seek to join entrepreneurs who share in this belief and in Impact Venture passion for innovation, opportunity and accomplishment. Impact Venture work relentlessly to offer strategic direction, recruit management and create partnerships. Drawing on Impact Venture extensive, nationwide network of corporate and financial relationships, Impact Venture provide our entrepreneurs with access to the resources needed to accelerate growth and achieve market dominance.

InternetArray, Inc. was founded in 1995. nternetArray wants to align with an assortment of online companies. InternetArray, formerly U.S. MedSys, offers financing and advice to early-stage Internet companies. Calling its charges "partners," InternetArray provides marketing, sales, administrative, and other back-office assistance in exchange for a share of the partner company. InternetArray company owns social media developer Noobis, which is working with social networking sites in China, the US, the UK, and Canada. Noobis' Amplify product helps not-for-profits set up fundraising networks. InternetArray also owns BidSellBuy.com, an online auction and shopping network.

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).

Trellis Partners is a team of Texas-based, venture capital professionals whose focus is on helping build leading technology companies through early-stage investment. Working in true partnership with Trellis portfolio companies to provide strategic vision and support, rather than just financial resources, is fundamental to Trellis philosophy.Trellis Partners' strategy is investing with a smaller, more exclusive list of companies, while applying similar parameters to the amount of capital Trellis manage. This enables members of the Trellis team to work more closely and collaboratively with each portfolio company, to provide a new level of assistance, support, and sponsorship. In addition, it allows us to hand-craft investor groups with specific co-investment firms who offer optimal fit and balance. This commitment to a smaller, more exclusive list of partners ensures that each of Trellis' portfolio companies gets the highest level of service, from team members with the highest level of experience.

Amphion Innovations plc was founded in 1984 and is based in Douglas, United Kingdom with additional offices in London, United Kingdom and New York, New York. Amphion Innovations plc is a principal investment firm specializing in both public and private early stage investments and spun out of universities and corporations. It does not invest in “speculative” technologies requiring long development timeframes or excessive capital investment. It invests in the medical, life sciences, and technology sectors with defensible core intellectual property, know-how and growth potential in very large markets of at least $1 billion in size together with corporations, governments, universities, and entrepreneurs. The firm typically invests in companies with broad-based, proprietary, platform technologies in the areas of pharmacogenomics, proteomics, nutriceuticals or wellness, diagnostics, medical products and related fields, leveraging advances in and the convergence of materials science and life science IT, particularly software technologies. It targets investments in companies based in both the United States and United Kingdom. The firm makes investments in a company that requires capital of up to $5 million as new capital in the first one to two years, with later, additional capital requirements of between $15 million and $25 million and is at least $1 billion in size. It acts as a lead investor and seeks to acquire a sizable ownership stake and measure of influence or control in its portfolio companies.

Private Equity is the common term used to refer to a specific type of long-term investment activity. Typically private equity firms take a controlling stake in companies with a view to transforming their performance over a number of years such that they can be sold at a premium to the acquisition price. The private equity investor will generally be represented on the board of the company so that they can actively support management in determining the strategic direction of the business.Private equity investments can be sub-divided according to the size of the company acquired, its development stage and the type of financing provided by the private equity firm. The Permira funds are primarily involved in medium to large buy-outs. This means that they tend to acquire sizeable businesses with a long-standing trading history and a strong market position. In addition, private equity firms traditionally finance their acquisitions with a mix of equity, provided by their institutional investors, and debt.Private Equity ownership is recognised to offer a number of benefits, which stem from its long-term investment horizon and a governance structure which fully aligns management’s and shareholders’ interests for the long-term benefit of a company and its employees. For more details on the industry, please visit our 3rd Party Research section.

Mellon Capital is one of the leading institutional investment managers in the United States, with 550 clients representing $177.7 billion in assets under management as of May 31, 2010, which includes assets managed in overlay strategies ($9.4 billion).* Offering a range of investment portfolios, from traditional to alternative asset classes, MCMC are an acknowledged leader in MCMC field.

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