Growth Capital Partners, L.P. was founded in 1992 and is based in Houston, Texas with additional offices in Greenwich, Connecticut and Dallas and Austin, Texas. Growth Capital Partners, L.P. (GCP) is a boutique investment bank that offers financial advisory and merchant banking services to private and public middle market companies. The firm provides mergers and acquisitions, pre-IPO advisory, private placement, strategic advisory, management-led buyouts, recapitalization, restructuring, and strategic advisory services. The firm’s clientele include Roofing Supply Group, Silver Eagle Distributors, The SCOOTER Store, Critieria Labs, Ambion, Rennhack Marketing Services, American Central Gas Technologies, and Standard Fruit and Vegetable Co. GCP caters to energy, consumer and retail, business services, technology and software, healthcare, and manufacturing and distribution industries.

Bastogi S.p.A., a holding company, operates in the financing, real estate, transportation, technology, engineering, art, and cold storage industries. Subsidiaries The company’s two main subsidiaries are Brioschi Finanziaria and Open Care-Frigoriferi Milanesi. Brioschi designs and builds large urban complexes for private and commercial uses. Open Care-Frigoriferi Milanesi offers art restoration and transportation services, art consulting, and cold storage of valuables. Bastogi also owns an art school, the Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti (NABA), which offers courses in painting, graphic design, and product design.

Oxford Technology Management was founded by Lucius Cary, and since 1983 has specialised in making and managing investments in start-up and early stage technology-based businesses with high growth prospects. The OTM team are all scientists or engineers by background, and understanding the technology is the starting point for any investment that we may make. The Investment policy of Oxford Technology Management is to construct a portfolio of investments with the following characteristics: unlisted, UK based, technology businesses, investments typically in the range of £100,000 - £2,000,000, although it can then invest similar amounts in subsequent rounds, in most cases located within easy reach of Oxford to allow a more 'hands on' management strategy. It is expected that approximately half of the funds will be invested in early stage companies (those which have achieved some initial sales) and the balance in start-up companies which are at an earlier stage.

GenSpring Family Offices was founded in 1989 and is based in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida with additional offices in Atlanta, Georgia; Charlotte, North Carolina; Miami, Florida; Orlando, Florida; St. Petersburg, Florida; and Chevy Chase, Maryland. GenSpring Family Offices, LLC. operates as a subsidiary of GenSpring Holdings, Inc. GenSpring Family Offices, LLC is a privately owned multi-family office with approximately $5.88 billion in assets under management. It also provides estate and trust planning, tax planning, and philanthropy services to its clients. The firm provides its services to individuals, typically high net worth individuals; pension and profit sharing plans; pooled investment vehicles; charitable organizations, and corporations. It invests in the public equity and fixed income markets of the United States. The firm also makes its investments in private equity and hedge funds.

Conning & Company was founded in 1912 and is headquartered in Hartford, Connecticut with additional offices in Dublin and London. Conning & Company was formerly a subsidiary of Swiss Reinsurance Co. Conning & Company provides insurance asset management and investment management services, and insurance-related research publications. It specializes in fixed-income products for institutional investors. The company, through its subsidiaries, offers insurance research, including information products, and insights and analyses of issues confronting the insurance industry, as well as provides insurance asset management, including portfolio management, and investment accounting and reporting services in the United States and Europe. It also provides access to various financial investment products, such as structured securities, derivative strategies and investment banking, and insurance and banking equity research.

Vontobel Holding AG is a Swiss private bank. The Company is structured into three main business units: Private Banking, Investment Banking, and Asset Management/Investment Funds. Private Banking services include portfolio management and active investment advisory to integrated financial advice and inheritance planning. The Investment Banking business unit focuses on the derivatives and structured products business and on brokerage, as well as on selected corporate finance activities. Asset Management/Investment Funds specializes in active asset management based on asset allocation, stock selection and multi-manager approaches. Its products are distributed through wholesale channels and directly to institutional clients. Among its subsidiaries there are Bank Vontobel Cayman, Bank Vontobel Oesterreich AG, Bank Vontobel Europe AG, Vontobel Asset Management, Inc., Vontobel Fund Advisory S.A., Harcourt Investment Consulting AB and Harcourt Alternative Investments (HK) Ltd.

BNP Paribas Investment Partners (BNPP IP) works in euros, pesos, or dollars. The asset management arm of French banking giant BNP Paribas has some $730 billion of assets under management, almost half of which is for institutional clients. It operates through about 20 specialist investment companies such as hedge fund manager Fauchier Partners, environmental fund manager Impax Group, and multi-manager group FundQuest. Its partners offer mutual funds, exchange-traded funds, money-market funds, equities and fixed-income funds, employee retirement funds, credit, and structured finance. BNPP IP has offices in more than 35 countries across Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and the Americas.

Everett Smith Group owns Eagle Ottawa Leather, which makes upholstery leather for major carmakers. Other Everett Smith portfolio companies include OEM Worldwide, which manufactures electronic assemblies for medical and industrial applications, and Maysteel, which makes power distribution equipment and sheet metal enclosures for the utility industry. Everett Smith typically invests up to $75 million per transaction and maintains a longterm buy-and-hold philosophy. Dickten Masch Plastics, which makes thermoplastic products for cars and hand tools, and Trostel, which makes rubber components rounds out Everett Smith's portfolio.

Cavendish Corporate Finance LLP was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in London, United Kingdom. Cavendish Corporate Finance Limited (CCFL) provides financial advisory services to private companies, public enterprises, and financial institutions. The firm offers mergers and acquisition, valuation, deal negotiation and structuring, and due diligence advisory services. Additionally, it provides assistance in buyer identification, risk assessment, operational planning, and benchmarking services. The firm caters to construction, consumer and retail, leisure, healthcare, paper and packaging, and telecommunications and media industries. Its clientele includes GET Group plc, YORK Novenco, Hale Hamilton, U-POL Products Limited, JJ Barker Ltd, and Canterbury Foods Group plc.

Focus firm invests venture capital in expansion-stage technology companies, usually anywhere from $3 million-$15 million, particularly in the fields of semiconductors, communications, and software. The firm typically serves as the lead investor. Current holdings include supply management software maker Elance and engineering software maker Sequence Design. Focus Ventures' largest general partner is Asian investment firm the Cha Group.

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