Elco Holdings Ltd. was founded in 1949 and is based in Tel Aviv, Israel. Elco Holdings Ltd. is an Israel-based investment company which its main lines of activity are conducted through separate business units incorporated into distinct legal entities: Electra Ltd., Electra Real Estate Ltd., Electra Consumer Products (1951) Ltd., Airwell Airconditioning B.V. and Elco Landmark Residential Holdings, LLC. The Group’s operations range over several business sectors such as end to end services for infrastructure and development, including initiation, research, mechanical and electro-mechanical contracting, electricity infrastructure and upkeep, importing and marketing of retail consumer electronics, yielding real estate operations and production and marketing of air-condition systems. Elco Holdings Ltd. has operations in Israel, France, Russia, Hong Kong, Australia, Greece, Belgium, Germany, Holland, United Kingdom, Italy and Spain. The Company's production facilities are located in Israel, Italy, France and China.

Hershey Trust Company was founded in 1905 and is based in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Hershey Trust Company operates as a subsidiary of Milton Hershey School Trust. Hershey Trust Company operates as a trust company. Hershey Trust company provides investment, financial planning, and administrative solutions to individual and institutional investors. Hershey Trust also manages real estate properties, including farmhouses and modern ranch homes in secluded country settings, as well as apartments and Cape Cod style homes in Hershey.

The Cypress Group L.L.C. firm owns stakes in companies in the automotive, financial services, manufacturing, and media and entertainment industries. Its portfolio includes holdings in about 10 firms, including Cooper-Standard Automotive, Republic National Cabinet, and Scottish Re Group Limited. Cypress Group is an active investor that often becomes involved in the day-to-day management of its portfolio companies. The firm has made more than $4 billion in investments since it was founded in 1989. One of its most well-known past investments includes Cinemark.

The Chairman, Bruce Rowan, has managed the Company since January 2002. Bruce has a wealth of experience over many years of investing primarily in small company new issues and pre-IPO opportunities in the natural resources and mineral exploration sectors. Bruce is supported by Tony Scutt, non-executive director, and by John Watkins, finance director and company secretary. Tony is an experienced private investor and investment analyst as well as a director of three investee companies; Tony is a qualified Chartered Secretary, a Certified Internal Auditor with the US Institute of Internal Auditors and spent 35 years with Shell. John has been in practice as a Chartered Accountant since 1972, including periods in the City with the accountancy firms of Neville Russell and Ernst & Young. In addition, he is a non-executive director of five Starvest investee companies.

Coast Asset Management was founded in 1991 and is based in Santa Monica, California with additional offices in Morton Grove and Sausalito. Coast Asset Management LLC is an employee owned hedge fund sponsor. The firm provides its services to pooled investment vehicles, separately managed accounts, collateralized debt obligations, and collateralized fund obligations. It invests in the public equity and fixed income markets across the globe. The firm primarily focuses on fixed-income investments, employing fixed-income arbitrage, multi-manager portfolio management, and credit-spread strategies in administering its funds.

U.S. Venture Partners was founded in 1981. U.S. Venture Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in early-stage companies. It typically invests in information technology, life science and technologies for adapting to or mitigating climate change with a focus on energy-related products and services, components, software, systems, semiconductors, web-enabled services for businesses and consumers, storage, wireless communication, sustainable agriculture, the Internet version 2.0, biomedical devices, and new drugs with profound social benefits. The firm seeks to invest in markets with revenue potential in excess of $1 billion and rarely invests in companies focusing on a market smaller than $300 million. It prefers to avoid investing in companies that compete directly with each other. The firm prefers to take a board seat in its portfolio companies and typically invests for a period of three to ten years.

First Republic Bank was founded in 1985 as First Republic Bancorp Inc. and changed its name to First Republic Bank in September 1997. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California. As of September 21, 2007, First Republic Bank operates as a subsidiary of BofA Merrill Lynch. First Republic Bank provides private banking, private business banking, investment management, brokerage, trust services, and real estate lending services in California, Nevada, and New York. It provides private business banking services to accounting firms, architecture and design, art and antique dealers, business management firms, business partnerships, entertainment/media, family offices, financial services, hedge funds, independent schools, investment firms, law firms, medical firms, non-profit organizations, private equity funds/firms, property management firms, and venture capital firms.First Republic Bank company also provides private wealth management services, including asset allocation, trust administration, custody, asset management, brokerage, private placements, fixed income management, financial and estate planning, alternative investments, socially responsible investing, and multi-cap equity and management services. First Republic Bank also offers residential lending products, such as single family mortgages, vacation home mortgages, co-op and condominium loans, home equity lines of credit, bridge loans, and construction-to-permanent loans; commercial lending, including apartment building, mixed-use building, commercial real estate, and site-acquisition and construction loans; and personal lending, such as stock/bond secured loans, unsecured loans, overdraft lines of credit, letters of credit, partner capital lines, aircraft and yacht financing. The company’s deposit services comprise ATM rebate checking, money market checking, money market savings, passbook savings, and certificates of deposit.

Oppenheimer Holdings specializes in wealth management, asset management, trust, and investment banking services for institutional and wealthy individual clients. (Private-client services -- about $62 billion in assets under management -- make up the bulk of sales.) Offerings include brokerage, annuities, and estate planning. Oppenheimer Holdings Inc. asset management group -- about $17 billion in assets under management -- covers the bases from research to alternative investments. Oppenheimer Holdings Inc. capital markets unit provides equities and debt market products and services. The formerly Toronto-based Canadian company rechartered as a US company in 2009, moving its headquarters to New York.

Cheung Kong Infrastructure Holdings knows the ins and outs of financing heavy construction projects. Cheung Kong Infrastructure Holdings Limited company (also known as CKI) has interests in transportation, energy, water, and construction materials primarily in Hong Kong and mainland China. Its energy group owns nearly 40% of Hongkong Electric and has stakes in several Chinese power plants. CKI's materials operations include cement and concrete firms. The transportation arm oversees toll roads and bridges in five Chinese provinces. CKI company also has infrastructure investments in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the UK. Through Hutchison Whampoa, real estate investment holding company Cheung Kong (Holdings) Limited controls an 85% stake in CKI.

Francisco Partners Management LLC was founded in August 1999 and is based in San Francisco, California. Francisco Partners Management LLC is a private equity firm specializing in financing divisional spinouts, divisional buyouts including divestiture, acquisitions and "take privates" of public companies, sponsored mergers and acquisitions, acquisitions of private and public companies, strategic minority investments in public and private companies, fallen angels, management buyouts, growth equity financing, recapitalizations, and restructurings. In growth equity financing, the firm seeks to invest in industry roll-ups, joint ventures, and adjacent market opportunities that may evolve from situations such as post-venture capital funding needs, sponsor changes, or assets hidden within larger companies. It prefers to invest in mature or maturing technology and technology-related companies. The firm seeks to invest in communications, hardware, information technology services and software, healthcare technology, outsourcing and transaction processing services, semiconductors and capital equipment, electronic product distributors, electronics components, systems, and manufacturing, business process outsourcing (BPO), security and enterprise application and infrastructure software, and communications service providers. It prefers to invest in companies with enterprise values ranging from $25 million to $2 billion.

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