Founded in 1985, Granahan Investment Management, Inc. is employee-owned. Granahan Investment Management (GIM) provides small capitalization equity investing for large institutional clients through its two funds. Its Small Cap Explorer fund targets companies with a market cap between $500 million and $2.5 billion while its more recent Small Cap Core Growth fund targets companies with a market cap between $100 million and $1 billion. All told the firm has some $3 billion in assets under management. Portfolio companies include business information provider Dun & Bradstreet, automated teller machine operator Euronet, and marketing services provider ValueClick.

Cortera, Inc. provides credit risk management software and services to credit and collections professionals. Cortera's online database allows users to make credit and lending decisions quickly by acessing financial infomation on public and private companies. Cortera, Inc. also allows its users to share feedback and rate their unique payment experiences. Cortera also assists with monitoring portfolio risk, resolving credit disputes, and collecting debts. Cortera, Inc., which has about 20,000 users, targets small businesses and large organizations by offering competitive prices and some free data. Venture capital firm Volition Capital holds stake in Cortera, which was founded in 1993.

Baylake Corp. was founded in 1876 and is headquartered in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. Baylake Corp. is the bank holding company of Baylake Bank (the Bank) and provides a range of banking and related business activities through its bank and its other subsidiaries. As of December 31, 2009, the Company had total assets of approximately $1.0 billion. The Bank is an independent community bank offering a range of financial services primarily to small businesses and individuals located in its market area. The Company conducts its community banking business through 28 financial centers located throughout Northeast Wisconsin, in Brown, Door, Green Lake, Kewaunee, Manitowoc, Outagamie, Waupaca, and Waushara Counties. It has eight financial centers in Door County, which is known for its tourism-related services. It has eight financial centers in Brown County, which includes the city of Green Bay. The Company serves a range of service, manufacturing and retail job segments in the Brown County market.

EZCORP, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, lends or provides credit services to individuals to meet their short-term cash needs. EZCORP, Inc. offers pawn loans, which are non recourse loans collateralized by tangible personal property, including jewelry, consumer electronics, tools, sporting goods, and musical instruments. EZCORP, Inc. also provides signature loans consisting of payday loans, installment loans, auto title loans, or fee-based credit services to customers seeking loans. In addition, EZCORP provides credit services, including advice and assistance to customers in obtaining loans from unaffiliated lenders. As of September 30, 2009, EZCORP, Inc. operated a total of 910 locations consisting of 369 the U.S. pawnshops, 62 pawnshops in Mexico, 477 the U.S. short-term loan stores, and 2 short-term loan stores in Canada. EZCORP, Inc. was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Bruckmann, Rosser, Sherrill & Co., L.L.C. ("BRS") is a New York-based private equity investment firm with approximately $1.4 billion in funds under management. Founded in 1995 by former senior executives of Citicorp Venture Capital, Ltd., BRS specializes in management buyouts and recapitalizations of high quality, middle market companies with strong market positions and/or growth potential. BRS's philosophy is to back the management of its portfolio companies, allowing them operational freedom with long-term equity incentives and support. BRS provides expertise to portfolio companies in the areas of financing, acquisitions and strategic long-term planning focused upon realization of value.The founders of BRS have had extensive experience since the mid 1980's in initiating, negotiating, financing, closing and overseeing numerous private equity investments in diverse industries throughout a range of economic cycles and financial market conditions. They have undertaken management buyouts of public companies, private companies, and divisions of larger companies; recapitalizations of closely held companies providing both liquidity and continual ownership to existing owners; build-ups of significant enterprises through acquisitions; and equity investments in growth companies.

Founded in 1993, Corbett Keeling is owned by the Keeling family; brothers Jim and Simon act as co-chairmen. Investment firm Corbett Keeling targets businesses valued up to $150 million that are seeking equity, mezzanine, or debt financing in the range of $500,000 to $20 million. Corbett Keeling also assists companies with such transactions as takeovers, recommended bidding, and maintaining stockholder equity or debt. Clients include Gieves & Hawkes (demerger consulting), Linguaphone (raised equity funding), Radiant Networks (raised shares), Opus (refinancing assistance), and BUPA Healthcare Professionals (buyout advisement).

Shattuck Hammond Partners, a division of Morgan Keegan & Company, Inc., is an investment banking and financial advisory firm with more than forty investment banking professionals and offices in New York, San Francisco, Atlanta and Chicago. Founded in 1993 as a boutique focused on healthcare services, the Firm has steadily grown over the last decade and extended its expertise and success to meet the needs of clients across a variety of industry sectors, including hospitals, senior living, managed care, pharmaceuticals, medical distribution and outsourcing, healthcare information technology, real estate, higher education and specialty not-for-profit organizations.Shattuck Hammond provides comprehensive investment banking and financial advisory services, including: strategic advisory, merger & acquisition advisory; placements of debt and equity; taxable and tax-exempt debt underwriting and financial advisory; derivatives and reinvestments; and real estate transaction services. In the last ten years, Shattuck Hammond has completed more than 160 M&A transactions totaling $10.8 billion in transaction value, and has served as underwriter, placement agent, financial advisor or bid agent on capital markets transactions totaling more than $13.8 billion.

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.

Institut de Participations de l’Ouest SA was founded in 1980 and is based in Nantes, France. Company Overview Institut de Participations de l’Ouest SA is a private equity arm of CIC Credit Industriel & Commercial, specializing in growth capital, management and owner buyout and buy-in transactions, and recapitalization. The firm usually invests in all the sectors. It typically invests in the following western region of France: Brittany, Pays de la Loire, Poitou-Charentes, Limousin, and Normandie. The firm invests between €0.5 million ($0.74 million) and €15 million ($22.27 million) per transaction in companies and seeks minority control in the businesses it acquires.

IDB Holdings Corporation Ltd. (IDB Holding) part of the IDB Group is an Israel-based company engaged in diversified investment, financial and other related operations. IDB Holding Corporation owns a 100% interest in IDB Development Corporation Ltd., which holds and centralizes the Group’s investment activities. Through its interest in IDB Development, IDB Holding’s business interests include insurance through Clal Insurance, financial activities through Credit Suisse and Clal Finance, communications through 013 NetVision and Cellcom Communications, technology through several of its subsidiaries, industry through Makhteshim Agan Industries, Nesher, Taavura and several other companies, real estate development through Property & Building Corp. and Gav-Yam, and retail trade and tourism through Shufersal, Golf & Co. and Clal Tourism.

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