Welcome to LACERA, the Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association. The County Employees Retirement Law of 1937 directs us to administer defined retirement plan benefits for the employees of Los Angeles County and outside Districts. LACERA provides retirement, disability, and death benefits, as well as health care coverage for current and retired employees of Los Angeles County. In all, the organization oversees more than $35 billion in assets. Its operations are overseen by two boards, one that manages retirement benefits and one that manages LACERA's investments.

JatoTech Ventures is a venture capital company specializing in technology startups. JatoTech Ventures company typically invests $500,000 to $3 million initially and between $5 million and $8 million over the life of its partner companies. The firm looks for those businesses that are creating new markets with the their products and services focusing its resources toward early stage investing. To better provide its portfolio companies with a full range of services, JatoTech limits the size of its portfolio. Wireless communications technology developer Bandspeed is one of JatoTech's holdings.

SagePoint Financial was formed as AIG Financial Advisors in 2005 from the combination of three of the broker-dealer subsidiaries of insurance giant American International Group (AIG): Sentra Securities, Spelman & Co., and SunAmerica Securities. Part of AIG Retirement Services, SagePoint sells products and services including retirement and estate planning, securities trading, and insurance. SagePoint Financial, Inc. oversees around $27 billion in account assets. SagePoint Financial, Inc. serves both short- and long-term investors through a nationwide network of some 2,300 independent financial advisors, who receive technology, business development, and training support from SagePoint.

Duff & Phelps Corporation (D&P) is a provider of independent financial advisory and investment banking services. The Company provides independent advice on issues involving highly technical and complex assessments in the areas of valuation, transactions, financial restructuring, disputes and taxation. Its clients include publicly-traded and privately-held companies, government entities, and investment firms, such as private equity firms and hedge funds. The Company provides its services through three segments: Financial Advisory, Corporate Finance Consulting and Investment Banking. The Company serves a global client base through offices in 23 cities, comprising offices in 17 United States cities, including New York, Chicago, Dallas and Los Angeles, and six international offices located in Amsterdam, London, Munich, Paris, Shanghai and Tokyo. In June 2010, it acquired Cole Partners.

TriNorth is a Canadian-based investment company that manages a diversified investment portfolio to generate long-term capital growth for shareholders. TriNorth takes an active interest in its investee companies from the earliest stages, providing strategic and financial counsel, support and direction to assist in their growth and success. Trinorth's investment strategy includes structuring and initiating deals focused on particular resources, themes or regions as well as launching the development of businesses in select industries by providing assistance with the hiring of management teams, providing seed capital and facilitating IPOs. TriNorth is managed by Lawrence Asset Management Inc.

MPM Capital Limited Partnership firm targets biotechnology, specialty pharmaceutical, and medical technology companies. With more than $2 billion of committed capital in four funds, it invests in all stages of a firm's development, typically offering between $5 million and $50 million per transaction, and takes a long-term approach. MPM Capital's portfolio includes about 60 firms, including Affymax, AVEO Pharmaceuticals, Oxagen, and Surface Logix. Most of MPM Capital's investments are in US concerns, but the company also seeks opportunities in Europe, and more recently, Asia and Australia.

Melrose PLC, together with its subsidiaries, operates as an engineering company. The Dynacast segment supplies die-cast parts and components for computing, consumer electronics, healthcare, automotive, and telecommunications industries. The Energy segment provides energy industrial products, such as turbogenerators, transformers, and switchgear units. This segment serves gas turbine producers and specialist generators; and oil and gas, mining, defense, telecommunications, utilities, and industrial contracting sectors. The Lifting segment manufactures wire and rope solutions, such as crane, fishing, marine, mining, and oil and gas wire and fiber ropes; and high carbon wire and construction products. This segment also provides accessories used in the lifting and material handling industry. It serves onshore and offshore oil and gas, deep shaft and surface mining, petrochemical, alternative energy, general industrial, construction, fishing and marine, and material handling industries. The Other Industrial segment offers window hardware, and storm and screen door hardware; automated material handling solutions for airports, post and parcel distribution facilities, manufacturing and warehouse operations, and library automation; and designs, manufactures, and supplies scrap processing and recycling equipment for ferrous, non-ferrous, and paper industries.

Established in 1980, General Atlantic has stakes in about 40 firms. Portfolio companies include AKQA,Lenovo Group, and ZAGAT Survey. General Atlantic helps little fish become bigger fish in the big pond called business. The private equity firm provides both capital and strategic support to public and private growth companies. With about $13 billion in capital under management, General Atlantic focuses its investments on such sectors as energy, financial services, health care, media, and technology. Typical investments range from $50 million to $500 million, and its average investment period lasts from five to seven years.

Abingworth Management Limited was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in London, United Kingdom with additional offices in Menlo Park, California; Waltham, Massachusetts; Boston, Massachusetts; and Cambridge, United Kingdom. Abingworth Management Limited is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in investments in early and late-stage venture financing, growth equity, expansion capital, VIPE, and acquisition financing. The firm also provides financing for recapitalizations, build-ups, and growth buyouts. The firm also seeks to invest in undervalued public companies. It invests in healthcare services and information technology with a focus on providers, payors, specialty services, software, and related services and on life sciences with a focus on specialty pharmaceuticals, medical products and devices, lab instrumentation, and consumables. The firm also invests in platform and enabling technologies, healthcare services, biomedical, biotechnology, and companies developing therapeutics.

Trellis Partners is a team of Texas-based, venture capital professionals whose focus is on helping build leading technology companies through early-stage investment. Working in true partnership with Trellis portfolio companies to provide strategic vision and support, rather than just financial resources, is fundamental to Trellis philosophy.Trellis Partners' strategy is investing with a smaller, more exclusive list of companies, while applying similar parameters to the amount of capital Trellis manage. This enables members of the Trellis team to work more closely and collaboratively with each portfolio company, to provide a new level of assistance, support, and sponsorship. In addition, it allows us to hand-craft investor groups with specific co-investment firms who offer optimal fit and balance. This commitment to a smaller, more exclusive list of partners ensures that each of Trellis' portfolio companies gets the highest level of service, from team members with the highest level of experience.

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