PEAK6 Investments, L.P. was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. Peak6 Investment, LP, an online stock and option broker, provides options trading, risk management, and hedge fund services. It also operates a news network that provides market analysis, trading floor interviews, trading strategies, education, and news feeds regarding options. In addition, the company operates a Website that provides information about the stock market, as well as enables to trade in real stocks under real market conditions with fake money.

Goldman Sachs Execution & Clearing (GSEC) provides trade execution and clearing services to institutional clients such as corporations, mutual funds, hedge funds, pension funds, central banks, and other broker-dealers. Through the company's Goldman Sachs Electronic Trading affiliate, customers can trade equities, options, currencies, futures, and commodities, and view prices and positions in real time. Its services are performed both electronically and by brokers. The company also offers algorithmic trading. GSEC is active in the US, Europe, and Asia. In 2008 parent Goldman Sachs converted from an investment bank to a bank holding company.

Top Technology Ventures is a UK-based venture capital company which specialises in providing equity funding for early stage technology based growth companies. Founded in 1986, Top Technology Ventures has a strong track record and has earned a reputation for significant expertise in the early stage UK technology sector. In June 2004 Top Technology Ventures became part of IP Group plc (www.ipgroupplc.com).The investment team manages funds totalling approximately £49 million. Top Technology Ventures have a straightforward, open and collaborative approach to investment. Top Technology add value to portfolio companies through Top Technology experience, support on strategic and corporate finance issues and extensive contact network.

August Capital was founded in 1995 by Dave Marquardt and John Johnston. Seasoned veterans of the venture capital industry, Marquardt and Johnston formed August Capital to invest in companies differentiated by technical innovation and entrepreneurial excellence. Today, August Capital's six partners -- Marquardt, Johnston, Andy Rappaport, David Hornik, Vivek Mehra and Howard Hartenbaum -- have more than a century of combined venture and operational experience. Together they manage $1.3 billion and have invested in more than 75 companies across the technology spectrum.From its inception, August Capital has funded an extraordinary group of entrepreneurs who have built significant, long-term value across the full range of information technologies. The companies that August Capital's partners have backed represent an aggregate market capitalization of well over $250 billion, generate in excess of $75 billion in annual revenue and employ a quarter of a million people around the world. This success is a testament to the entrepreneurs themselves, as well as the fundamental technologies they have created. We are proud to have supported these entrepreneurs and their companies as they have grown and prospered.

Alerion Capital Group, LLC was founded in 1999 and is based in Scottsdale, Arizona with an additional office in Salt Lake City, Utah. Alerion Capital Group, LLC is a private equity firm specializing in investments in later-stage and middle-market companies whose owners wish to fully or partially liquefy their positions. The firm prefers to invest in recapitalizations, management buyouts, leveraged buyouts, divestitures, strategic acquisition, industry consolidation, growth capital transactions, and pursue divestments of non-core subsidiaries. It also invests in companies that will significantly benefit from strategic refocusing or operating improvements. The firm typically invests in hardware and devices, electronics, instrumentation, semiconductor, business technology services, and technology enabled services (non-technology industry). It also invests in software with a focus on software as a service (SaaS); outsourcing with a focus on offshore manufacturing, development and services; security technologies with a focus on software and homeland security; and communications with a focus on wireless, convergence, and social networking. The firm usually invests in companies based in Southwest, Mountain West, and Pacific.

RJD Partners Limited was founded in 2001. RJD Partners hopes to provide a nice return. The private equity firm invests in midsized UK companies on behalf of its third-party funds. It participates in buyouts, capital injections, and restructurings, targeting companies valued between £10 million to £75 million (between $15 million and $125 million). RJD Partners takes an active role in its investments, helping them to grow organically and via their own acquisitions. Portfolio holdings include companies in the business services, health care, IT, leisure, and financial services sectors.

CI Financial Corp. (CI), formerly CI Financial Income Fund, is a diversified wealth management firm. It is engaged in the management, marketing, distribution and administration of mutual funds, segregated funds, structured products and other fee-earning investment products for Canadian investors, distributed primarily through brokers, independent financial planners and insurance advisors, including Assante Capital Management Ltd. and Assante Financial Management Ltd. It operates in two segments. The Asset Management provides the majority of its income and derives its revenues from the fees earned on the management of several families of mutual, segregated, pooled and closed-end funds, structured products and discretionary accounts. The Asset Administration derives its revenues from commissions and fees earned on the sale of mutual funds and other financial products, and ongoing service to clients. On December 31, 2009, it completed the sale of Blackmont Capital Inc. to Macquarie Group.

Advent International Corporation was founded in 1984 and is headquartered at Boston, Massachusetts with additional offices across Europe, North America, South America, and Asia. Advent International Corporation is a venture capital and private equity firm specializing in growth buyout, mid market, management buyouts, buyins, company succession, strategic repositioning, and venture capital funds. Within buyout funds, it invests in minority and majority recapitalizations, financing organic or acquisition-led growth, international expansion, and growth equity and capital transactions in established and developing markets. In established market buyout investments, the firm invests in later stage, control buyouts of private companies or non-core divisions of large corporations, buy outs/ins, privatization, joint venture, restructuring, and special situation. It seeks to invest in business and financial services, retail and consumer, IT services and technology, media, and telecom, healthcare and life sciences, and industrial sectors. Within business services, the firm focuses on back-office processing services, business process outsourcing, customer support services, facilities management, transport; distribution; and logistics, financial and database information services, food and catering, human resource services, professional advisory, transaction processing, and information technology services. In financial services, it focuses on securities brokerage and trading systems, payment and transaction processing, foreign exchange services, credit card issuance, insurance brokerage, banking, asset management, consumer credit, financial services BPO, and specialty finance.

The Clearing Corporation (TCC) has no problem coming between buyers and sellers of over-the-counter traded derivatives (such as futures and options). As trades are continuously matched throughout the day, TCC substitutes itself as buyer and seller for the trade and thus guarantees the performance of every trade it accepts. The independent clearinghouse serves major dealers and participants in the worldwide derivatives market, most of which are stockholders. The company was formed in 1925 as The Board of Trade Clearing Corporation and became the first independent clearinghouse for futures markets in the US. TCC was bought by the IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) in 2009.

Consumer Portfolio Services, Inc., a specialty finance company, engages in purchasing and serving retail automobile contracts originated primarily by franchised automobile dealers and select independent dealers of new and used automobiles, light trucks, and passenger vans in the United States. Consumer Portfolio Services, through its automobile contract purchases, provides indirect financing to the sub-prime customers of dealers, who have limited credit histories, low incomes, or past credit problems. Consumer Portfolio Services serves as an alternative source of financing for dealers, facilitating sales to customers who might not be able to obtain financing from traditional sources. Consumer Portfolio Services also provides services for the automobile contracts from its servicing branches in Virginia, Florida, and Illinois. Consumer Portfolio Services was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Irvine, California.

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