Nuveen Investments was founded in 1898 and is based in Chicago, Illinois. Nuveen Investments, Inc. is a privately owned investment manager. The firm provides its services to public pension funds, university endowments, foundations, insurers, high-net-worth individuals, and institutional investors. It manages closed-end exchange-traded funds, mutual funds, and hedge funds for its clients. The firm also manages equity, fixed income, and balanced portfolios. It invests in the public equity and fixed income markets across the globe. The firm primarily invests in growth stocks of large-cap companies and value stocks of multi-cap companies with a focus on large-cap and small-cap companies. It in invests in national and state-specific municipal securities to make its fixed income investments.

Since 1984, Onex has acquired and built great businesses as a private equity investor. Onex Corporation (Onex) is an investment firm. The Company focuses on investing its active ownership approach of acquiring and building businesses in partnership with management teams. Onex invests through Onex Partners, its private equity platform. Onex also invests through ONCAP, its mid-market private equity platform, Onex Real Estate Partners and Onex Credit Partners. As of December 31, 2009, the Company had invested approximately $7.5 billion. As December 31, 2009, it had completed more than 260 acquisitions. In October 2009, the Company sold its interest in Celestica Inc. In August 2009, it sold its interest in Emergency Medical Services Corporation (EMSC). In April 2009, it also sold its interest in Cineplex Galaxy Income Fund. During the year ended December 31, 2009, the Company acquired Tropicana Las Vegas Hotel and Casino.

Solera Capital was founded in 1999 with an all-female staff led by CEO Molly Ashby. The firm emphsizes its diversity, with 14 of its 17 professionals being women from backgrounds as diverse as Singapore and Ethiopia. Solera Capital is a private equity investment firm that typically invests between $10 million and $40 million in its target companies. Its portfolio includes natural and organic food company Annie's, consumer health care provider The Little Clinic, and publisher Latina Media Ventures.

Guardian Capital Group Limited (Guardian) is a diversified financial services company which operates in the investment management and financial services industry.. It serves the needs of clients in different sectors of the financial services market through its four operating businesses. Guardian ’s operating business, Guardian Capital Inc (GCI), is an institutional investment counsellor. Based in Toronto, GCI provides institutional investment management services to clients that include pension plan sponsors, open and closed-end mutual funds, operating and endowment funds, and retail managed asset programs. GCI has a broad range of products among Canadian institutional investment managers spanning Canadian and foreign equity, fixed-income, and balanced portfolio mandates. Guardian Capital Advisors Inc (GCA) provides investment and asset management services to high net worth clients, foundations and endowment funds. Over the past several years, GCA has created a comprehensive global investment management platform to provide clients with sophisticated separate account management. In addition, GCA has launched ETFolios, an Internet- based service utilizing exchange-traded funds to create tailored investment portfolios for clients. GCA has also established a national presence through offices in Vancouver, Toronto and Ottawa. Alexandria Bancorp Limited (Alexandria) is a non-Canadian entity that operates an international bank, trust and corporate services and investment management business. Guardian has a majority interest in a fourth operating business, Worldsource Wealth Management Inc (WWM), which operates a mutual fund dealer and a securities dealer.

American Capital, Ltd. (American Capital) is an equity firm and a global asset manager. The Company invests in private equity, private debt, private real estate investments, early and late-stage technology investments, special situation investments, alternative asset funds managed by the Company and structured finance investments. On April 1, 2009, the Company completed the combination of three portfolio companies within its Financial Services Group to create Core Financial Group, a diversified commercial finance holding company. On July 13, 2009, American Capital completed the sale of its portfolio company, People Media to Match.com. On September 15, 2009, it completed the sale of its portfolio company, Axygen BioScience Inc., including its subsidiaries Axygen Inc. and Sorenson BioScience Inc. On October 13, 2009, the Company completed the sale of its portfolio company, Imperial Supplies Holding Inc.

Thoma Bravo LLC is a private equity firm specializing in buy-outs, recapitalizations, roll-overs of a portion of existing equity, management buy-outs, growth equity, industry consolidation, acquisitions, buy and build, and take-private transactions. It does not invest in start-ups and distressed businesses. The firm prefers to invest in the companies based in United States, but can consider opportunities globally as well. It seeks to invest in business services, enterprise and infrastructure software, education, distribution, financial services, and consumer goods and services. In the business services sector, the firm invests in financial services, information services, and transaction processing. In education, it prefers to invest in postsecondary education; early childhood learning, K-12 schools; educational products manufacturing and distribution; behavioral schools; and corporate training. Within consumer products and services, the firm invests in food and beverages; health, wellness and beauty aids, and services; automotive aftermarket; sports, leisure, entertainment and hobby products, and services; catalog and internet retailing; house wares, home repair and home furnishings; gardening and crafts; and pet care.

United Western Bancorp, Inc. (United Western Bancorp) is a unitary thrift holding company. The Company’s operations are conducted primarily through United Western Bank (United Western Bank or the Bank), UW Trust Company (UW Trust), Matrix Financial Services Corporation (Matrix Financial), UWBK Fund Management, Inc., (Fund Management) and UW Investment Services Inc. (UWIS), all of which are wholly owned subsidiaries of the Company. As of December 31, 2009, it had eight full service banking locations in the Colorado Front Range marketplace (downtown Denver, Cherry Creek, Hampden, Centennial, Boulder, Loveland, Fort Collins and Longmont), and a loan production office servicing the Aspen and Roaring Fork Valley market areas.

Highland Capital Management, L.P. is a SEC-registered investment adviser with approximately $24 billion of assets under management. It is one of the largest global alternative fixed income managers, specializing in bank loans, high yield credit, distressed debt, structured products, real assets, and long-short equities, with a global geographic reach. Highland's diversified client base includes public pension plans, foundations and endowments, corporations, financial institutions, fund of funds, governments, high net worth individuals, and mutual fund investors. To best meet the different goals of these investors, Highland offers a variety of product types, including credit funds, private equity-style funds, managed separate accounts, hedge funds, retail mutual funds, and collateralized loan obligations (CLOs). Highland Capital is headquartered in Dallas, Texas and maintains offices in New York, London and Singapore.

Reglera is a leading organization specializing in quality and regulatory consulting and process outsourcing. Reglera focuses on two primary industries: medical devices and human cellular and tissue products. Since 1994, Reglera has been helping tissue and medical device companies navigate the regulatory maze through its expertise and understanding of regulatory and quality systems requirements.Based in Lakewood, CO, Reglera is recognized as one of the largest and fastest growing regulatory consulting and outsourcing companies in the world. With more than 100 employees worldwide, and an unmatched group of strategic partners, Reglera is uniquely positioned to provide companies with products and services covering a wide variety of technical and support areas. Reglera fixed bid pricing approach is unique to Reglera industry and provides significant benefits to Reglera clients.Whether you are developing a new product, improving an existing product, need assistance with the FDA, or are simply trying to comply with the myriad of regulation and standards, Reglera's products and services will accelerate your success and profitability. If the right regulatory partner for your company is one that not only advises, but also specializes in implementation and results, choose Reglera. Reglera combination of regulatory expertise and operational knowledge will accelerate your products to market and ensure compliance and operational efficiency. In addition, all of Reglera products and services come with the guarantee that if you receive any FDA observations, Reglera will respond to the FDA and correct the issue and at no charge to you.

Vision Capital's focus is clear: finance high-tech firms looking to go global. The venture capital firm specializes in funding European technology companies wanting to expand into the US and vise-versa. It focuses on the communications, semiconductor, software, and Internet sectors. Active investors who prefer to take seats on the boards of portfolio companies, Vision Capital's multinational, multilingual team looks for high-growth ventures, which it defines as greater than 35% compound annual growth, before it sinks its typical $3 million to $8 million in any given firm.

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