Siebert Financial, through subsidiary Muriel Siebert & Co., provides discount securities brokerage and institutional financial services. Siebert Financial Corp. retail division offers equity trading, mutual fund access, and retirement accounts to self-directed individual investors. Customers can access their accounts and trade by phone, Internet, wireless device, or in person at seven retail branches in California, Florida, New Jersey, and New York. Siebert Financial provides securities trading and underwriting and other services to corporations and government entities. Founder and president Muriel "Mickie" Siebert, the first woman member of the New York Stock Exchange, owns some 90% of the company. Siebert Financial Corp. was founded in 1886 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

First Savings Financial Group, Inc. (First Savings Financial Group) is a holding company for First Savings Bank, F.S.B. (the Bank). The Bank operates as a community-oriented financial institution offering traditional financial services to consumers and businesses in its primary market area. The Bank attracts deposits from the general public and uses those funds to originate residential mortgage loans, commercial mortgage loans and commercial business loans. The Bank also originates residential and commercial construction loans, multi-family loans, land and land development loans, and consumer loans. The Bank conducts its lending and deposit activities primarily with individuals and small businesses in its primary market area. On September 30, 2009, the Bank acquired Community First Bank (Community First).

Nikko Cordial Securities trades in equities, fixed-income products, and investment trusts for retail and institutional investors. Nikko Cordial Securities Inc. has about $300 billion of assets under management in some 2,500 client accounts. Formerly part of Citigroup, which acquired the company in 2008, Nikko Cordial was sold to Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group the following year for some $8.7 billion, including cash and debt considerations. Nikko Cordial Securities Inc. sold most of its stake in private equity investment subsidiary Nikko Antfactory for $140 million in 2008. The relatively small divestiture portended Citigroup's sale of non-core operations in Japan, including Nikko Cordial.

Mohr Davidow invests in entrepreneurs creating businesses that address significant challenges and opportunities associated with Driving the Digital World, Personalizing Medicine and Powering the Planet. For 25 years Mohr Davidow has partnered with entrepreneurs and taken a hands-on approach to architect and help build successful companies. Mohr Davidow's team and the firm's extended network of industry experts bring years of real-world experience to accelerate each company's time to market and optimize its long-term success. The firm has $2 billion under management.Among the many Mohr Davidow funded companies that have gone public or been acquired are: Actuate; Agile; Auspex; Broadbase (KANA); Brocade; Epigram (BRCM); FormFactor; Freshwater Software (MERQ); Ipsilon Networks (NOK); Kalpana (CSCO); Numerical Technologies (SNPS); ONI Systems (CIEN); Pivotal Technologies (BRCM); Rambus; Vantive; Vitesse; and Zip2 (AltaVista).

Kohlberg & Company, L.L.C. is a leading U.S. private equity firm which acquires "middle market" companies (valued from $100 to $500 million). Since its inception in 1987, the firm has organized six private equity funds, through which it has raised $3.7 billion of committed capital. The firm’s objective has been to realize substantial capital gains through control investments in a diversified portfolio of companies. The firm has completed approximately 100 platform and add-on acquisitions with an aggregate value of more than $6 billion. Kohlberg & Company invests in companies where it can work in partnership with senior management to identify growth opportunities and implement fundamental operating and strategic changes, resulting in substantial increases in revenue and cash flow. The firm’s use of moderate amounts of debt financing in acquiring companies affords them the financial flexibility necessary to attain these corporate objectives.

Federated Investors, Inc. (Federated), together with its consolidated subsidiaries, is a provider of investment management products and related financial services. The Company sponsors, markets and provides investment-related services to various investment products, including mutual funds and Separate Accounts (which include separately managed accounts, institutional accounts, sub-advised funds and other managed products). Federated provided investment advisory services to 145 Federated-sponsored funds (the Federated Funds) as of December 31, 2009. Federated markets these funds to banks, broker/dealers and other financial intermediaries. Of the 145 Federated Funds, as of December 31, 2009, Federated’s investment advisory subsidiaries managed 50 money market funds totaling $281.5 billion in assets, 47 fixed-income funds with $28.4 billion in assets and 48 equity funds with $21.0 billion in assets.

Founded in 1998 by Bill Hambrecht, WR Hambrecht + Co is a financial services firm committed to using technology and auction processes to provide open and fair access to financial markets for all its clients. The firm’s impartial auctions have dramatically changed the traditional investment banking landscape by allowing the market to determine pricing and allocations.The OpenIPO® auction, for example, levels the playing field in initial public offerings, allowing individuals and institutional investors to bid online for shares of an IPO. All investors end up paying the same price – a price determined by the auction. The OpenBook® auction for corporate bonds, is an online system that offers transparent, real-time price discovery. OpenFollowOn® auction extends the transparency and real-time price discovery of the OpenBook auction to follow-on equity offerings allowing interactive bidding and gives investors a view into the book as it builds.WR Hambrecht + Co continues to identify markets where auctions will benefit investors and issuers. WR Hambrecht provide underwriting and advisory services for technology and emerging growth companies, as well as technology driven institutional agency brokerage and a fully electronic retail brokerage platform for individual investors. WR Hambrecht + Co is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia. WR Hambrecht Canadian affilliate, WR Hambrecht + Co Canada, is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

The Jordan, Edmiston Group, Inc. was founded in 1987 and is based in New York, New York. The Jordan, Edmiston Group, Inc. (JEGI) is a boutique investment bank that provides financial services to media and information companies. The firm offers mergers and acquisition; debt and equity financing; valuation; and strategic consulting services. JEGI caters to media, information technology, marketing, communications, advertising, and publishing sectors. Its clientele include CNET, Dow Jones, Hearst, Jupitermedia, Nielsen Media, Pearson, Reed Elsevier, Thomson Corporation, United Business Media, Abry Partners, Frontenac Company, Housatonic Partners, Pfingsten Partners, Seaport Capital, Warburg Pincus, and Wicks Group of Companies.

Haas Wheat & Partners is a Dallas-based private investment firm specializing in strategic equity investments and leveraged buyouts of middle market companies. Since 1984, the Firm has compiled an impressive track record investing in both private and public companies including such notable successes as Dr Pepper Company, The Seven-Up Company, A&W Brands, AMN Healthcare Services, Nebraska Book Company, and Sybron International Corporation. The Firm’s investments have been of varying sizes and have included both minority and control equity positions.

Sutter Hill Ventures has financed technology-based start-ups and assisted entrepreneurs in building market-leading companies since 1964. Through our decades of experience, Sutter Hill have developed strong industry networks, considerable operating and venture capital experience, and an understanding of the challenges that early-stage and high-growth companies face. Sutter Hill offer expertise in developing business strategy and partnerships, building management teams, and financing companies in both public and private markets.Sutter Hill Ventures are experienced operating executives who love building companies. Sutter Hill approach is straightforward. Sutter Hill have a collegial and uncomplicated operating style that is direct and results-driven. Sutter Hill work as a team to respond quickly to new investment proposals and to Sutter Hill portfolio companies' needs. Once sutter hill invest in a company, sutter hill bring to bear sutter hill bring to bear sutter hill time, expertise, and extensive industry networks to help these companies succeed. Building companies is sutter top priority and sutter favorite occupation.

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