Angelo, Gordon & Co., Private Equity Group was founded in 1996 and is based in New York, New York. Angelo, Gordon & Co., Private Equity Group is an operating subsidiary of Angelo, Gordon & Co. Angelo, Gordon & Co., Private Equity Group is a private equity firm specializing in small and middle market transactions. The firm prefers to acquire businesses and assets from financially distressed sellers and through divestitures from large corporations. It seeks to invest in management buyouts, private company recapitalizations, corporate orphans, distressed debt, complex structural situations, special situations, partnerships with fundless sponsors and industry executives, corporate lift-outs, difficult or non-traditional deal situations, and asset pool purchases. The firm seeks to invest in specialty finance, retail, consumer and retail, financial services, healthcare services and facilities, and business services. It invests between $10 million and $250 million in companies having enterprise values of $30 million to $500 million. The firm makes control investments as a sole investor or co-investor in transactions.

Virtus Investment Partners, Inc. (Virtus) is a provider of investment management products and services to individuals and institutions. It operates a multi-manager investment management business, comprised of affiliated managers, each having its own distinct investment style, autonomous investment process and brand. Virtus provide the products in a number of forms and through multiple distribution channels. The retail products include open-end mutual funds, closed-end funds and separately managed accounts. The fund family of open-end funds is distributed primarily through intermediaries. Retail separately managed accounts are comprised of intermediary programs, sponsored and distributed by unaffiliated brokerage firms, and private client accounts, which are offerings to the high net-worth clients of the affiliated managers. The Company also manages institutional accounts for corporations, multi-employer retirement funds and foundations, endowments and special purpose funds.

JCB Finance provides asset management and financial services for the UK construction and heavy machinery industries. The company's JCB Finance Asset Management segment sells or leases cars, access platforms, excavators, forklifts, loading shovels, and highway maintenance equipment, while its JCB Insurances Services branch issues insurance for the construction and industries sectors. In addition, the company's JCB Farm Finance unit provides farmers with combine harvesters, foragers, cultivation equipment, bailers, mowers, sprayers, trailers, and other related products. JCB Finance is owned by The Royal Bank of Scotland and farming equipment maker J C Bamford Excavators.

Old Mutual plc provides life assurance, asset management, banking, and general insurance services in North America, Europe, southern Africa, Latin America, and Asia. U.K. and Offshore This business provides products that serve the needs of long-term investors in the U.K. and international offshore markets. Skandia Investment Solutions is an investment platform. This platform gives advisers and their customers access to Individual Savings Accounts (ISAs), PEPs, and Collective Investment Accounts, which are provided by Skandia MultiFUNDS Limited. In addition, the platform offers an approved pension wrapper and U.K. and offshore life assurance bonds. Skandia Investment Management Ltd (SIML) is an asset management company. It provides multimanager funds created by Skandia Investment Group, the part of the Skandia group that specializes in investment research and the construction of multimanager funds. Skandia International is the company’s offshore and cross-border specialist, working in partnership with other Skandia and Old Mutual businesses. It includes Royal Skandia, Skandia Life Ireland, Old Mutual International, and Skandia Leben. Skandia U.K. Skandia U.K. focuses on long-term investments. It allows each customer to have a personalized and flexible investment portfolio, suited to their goals and risk appetite. The company provides tools for customers to analyse and construct the portfolio using open-architecture solutions which give access to approximately 1,000 funds from fund management companies, as well as manager-of-managers funds created both in-house and externally.

The Capital Group Companies, Inc. founded in 1931, is quiet (it doesn't advertise or grant many interviews), stable (it prides itself on consistency and believes investment decisions should not be taken lightly), and faithful (most of its investments and its executives are long-term). Subsidiary Capital Research and Management manages The American Funds, a family of more than 30 mutual funds that ranks among the largest groups of mutual funds by assets in the US. Other Capital Group units offer mutual funds in Canada and Europe, and investment trusts in Japan.

Kim Eng Holdings is one of Southeast Asia's foremost brokerage houses. Kim Eng Holdings Limited provides securities trading and investment banking services such as IPO underwriting, corporate advisory, and financing. Kim Eng Holdings Limited also provides asset management services through KE Capital Partners, a joint venture with Mitsubishi UFJ Securities, as well as through associate firm Republic Investment Management. Subsidiary Emfore Capital Partners manages private equity funds. Kim Eng also performs stock research; its KE Live division specializes in event-driven strategies for retail investors. Kim Eng has a presence in eight countries in Asia (it entered Vietnam and India in 2007), in addition to sales offices in New York and London.

Silentpoint PLC is an investment company which is actively managed and is not constrained by any requirement to track indices or conform to investment fashion. It focuses principally on equity investments without constraint of market capitalisation or balance of industry group weightings.At the core of our investments are holdings in companies where we believe there is fundamental under valuation and scope for share price appreciation. Historically, the company has been heavily weighted to the junior oil and mining sector.

The TCW Group, Inc. was founded in 1971 and is based in Los Angeles, California with additional offices in Los Angeles, California; New York City; and Houston, Texas. The TCW Group, Inc. operates as a privately owned investment manager. It provides its services to corporate and public pension plans, financial institutions, endowments, foundations, foreign investors, and high net worth individuals. The firm manages separate client focused equity, fixed income, and balanced portfolios. It also manages mutual funds for its clients. The firm invests in the public equity and fixed income markets across the globe. It invests in the growth and value stocks of small cap, mid cap, and large cap companies while making its equity portfolios. The firm also invests in fixed income securities, including corporate bonds, mortgage backed securities, and floating rate debt obligations. For its alternative investing, it also does mezzanine investing and invests in special situations, energy, and infrastructure sectors.

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.

Duchossois Technology Partners (DTEC) is affiliated with the The Duchossois Group (www.duch.com), which represents over 60 years of entrepreneurship and the development of dozens of companies with an aggregate value in excess of three billion dollars. The Duchossois Group (TDG), headquartered in Elmhurst, Illinois, is privately held and holds interests in a diversified portfolio of companies, including The Chamberlain Group, Inc. (consumer and commercial access control products), AMX LLC (consumer and commercial advanced control and automation technology), Heath-Zenith LLC (security and lighting products), Milestone AV Technologies (audio visual mounting equipment) and Duchossois Capital Partners (investments). TDG also holds a strategic interest in Churchill Downs, Inc. (NASDAQ: CHDN).

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