Kinetic Ventures is a leading venture capital investor in high growth, industry defining communications, information and power/clean technology companies. For over two decades Kinetic have partnered with outstanding entrepreneurs to build world-class enterprises. Kinetic is gratified to be partners with many remarkable entrepreneurs in the creation of industry defining companies like Ciena, VerticalOne, Corvis, Cerent, Peace Software, Broadware, APX, Calix, Altierre and SmartSynch.Since 1985, Kinetic have organized and managed eight early stage venture funds. Kinetic Ventures first seven funds were corporate venture funds capitalized entirely by Fortune 500 scale U.S. and European Electric and Gas Utilities investing from their balance sheets. During our 23-year history Kinetic have worked closely with the senior executive teams of Kinetic corporate investors in understanding their pressing market problems and how emerging communications, information and power technologies can solve their most vexing business requirements. As a result, Kinetic has deep understanding of Fortune 500 corporate buying behavior and has access, via its Corporate Advisory Board, to senior executives from the Power, Communications and Information Technology fields. Kinetic combines this deep market understanding with seasoned venture capital investing experience. Kinteic Ventures three managing directors have a combined 50 years working together executing Kinetic's early-stage investing model.

The family-owned company was founded in 1926 by Reuben Anderson, father of chairman Lee Anderson. APi Group has a piece of the action in two main sectors: industrial and specialty construction services and life safety. APi has more than 30 subsidiaries, which operate as independent companies across the US, UK, and Canada. Services provided by the company's construction subsidiaries include energy conservation; electrical, industrial, and mechanical contracting; industrial insulation; and overhead door installation. Other units install fire protection, security, and alarm systems; fabricate structural steel; and distribute building materials.

Founded in 1999, Silver Lake is a global private investment firm with approximately $14 billion in assets under management. With offices in Menlo Park, New York, London, San Francisco, Hong Kong and Tokyo, Silver Lake employs over 75 investment professionals across its strategies. The firm's investing strategies derive from specialization in three primary areas.Silver Lake Partners is the leader in private investments in technology, technology-enabled, and related growth industries. Its funds' portfolio companies include or have included technology industry leaders such as Ameritrade, Avago, Avaya, Business Objects, Flextronics, Gartner, Gerson Lehrman Group, Instinet, Intelsat, IPC Systems, MCI, NASDAQ OMX, NetScout, NXP, Sabre Holdings, Seagate Technology, Serena Software, SunGard Data Systems, Thomson and UGS.Silver Lake Sumeru invests in middle market technology companies with established business models and attractive growth prospects where there is an opportunity to create value through operational transformation. Silver Lake Sumeru combines specialized technology sector knowledge, rigorous due diligence processes and a network of industry relationships to create a significant competitive advantage in executing its investment strategy.

Code Hennessy & Simmons, L.L.C. was founded in 1988 and is based in Chicago, Illinois. Code Hennessy & Simmons, L.L.C. is a private equity firm specializing in acquisitions of middle market companies. The firm also invests in add-on acquisitions of any size for its existing portfolio companies. It does not invest in turnarounds and venture capital. The firm prefers to invest in industrial distribution; infrastructure and industrial products with a focus on companies that manufacture products or provide services with applications in infrastructure-related industries; consumer products with a focus on consumer manufacturing, services, and food companies; and business and consumer services with a focus on specialty rental, healthcare services, information and document management, commercial and industrial services, facilities-based retail and entertainment, and personal care companies in the United States. It also seeks to invest in marketing services, business process outsourcing, education services, and financial services. For its consumer products investments, the firm does not invest in companies where end-market demand is subject to rapid changes in fashion.

Founder and CEO Tom Gores, who started Platinum Equity in 1995, is the brother of Alec Gores, who founded another investment firm, Gores Technology Group. Platinum Equity typically seeks to acquire private companies, public firms that want to become private, and units that large corporations are looking to divest; these companies usually have established brands and customer bases, and most importantly, recurring revenues. Platinum Equity also looks for acquisitions as strategic add-ons to its portfolio companies, which have operations worldwide. It focuses on such sectors as manufacturing, distribution, technology services, and communications.

Intervest Bancshares is the holding company for Intervest National Bank, which operates one branch in New York City and six other branches in Pinellas County, Florida. Most of the company's lending activities are real estate-related: Commercial mortgages make up more than half of its loan portfolio, while multifamily residential mortgages account for another 40%. Some of the company's lending has historically been carried out by its Intervest Mortgage Corporation arm. However, the subsidiary drastically scaled back its lending practices as market conditions deteriorated in 2008. The family of chairman and CEO Lowell Dansker controls Intervest Bancshares.

Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SZSE)，established on 1st December 1990, is a self-regulated legal entity under the supervision of China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC). Its main functions include providing venue and facility for securities trading, formulating operational rules, arranging securities listing, organizing and supervising securities trading, offering membership supervision and oversight of listed companies, managing and publicizing market information and other capacities permitted by CSRC.SZSE is committed to its mission to develop China’s multi-tier capital market system. It gives full support to development in small and medium businesses and implementation of the national strategy of independent innovation. The SME Board was launched in May 2004. The ChiNext Market was inaugurated in October 2009. And the OTC market began its pilot program in Zhongguancun Science Park in January 2006. Thus SZSE has basically completed its framework for the multi-tier capital market system with coordinated development in the main board, SME board and ChiNext market. SZSE adheres to its basic principle of strict supervision and puts into practice the policy of “Regulation, Innovation, Cultivation and Service”. SZSE spares no effort in fostering an open, fair and just market environment.By 30 June 2010, SZSE was home to 1,012 listed companies, with 485 on the main board, 437 on the SME board and 90 on the ChiNext market. The total market capitalization was valued at 5.6 trillion yuan (US$828.7 billion). A total of 69 companies in Zhongguancun Science Park were quoted on the OTC market. In the first half of 2010, SZSE raised 154.3 billion yuan (US$22.7 billion) in IPO proceeds and recorded a total trading value of 9.73 trillion yuan (US$1.43 trillion). The multi-tier market, witnessing daily progress toward perfection, asserts its role in supporting the real economy and transformation of economic growth model.

The Cross-Harbour (Holdings) Limited, an investment holding company, operates motoring schools, tunnels, and an electronic toll collection system in Hong Kong. It offers driver training lessons for individual learners; and fleet training for operators from various commercial and public organizations by operating a fleet of training vehicles, including private cars, light goods vehicles, medium goods vehicles, motorcycles, buses, skid cars, and articulated vehicles. The company also operates the Western Harbour Tunnel located at West Kowloon reclamation area; and manages the Cross-Harbour Tunnel at Hunghom. In addition, it provides electronic toll clearing facilities in Hong Kong for 11 toll roads and tunnels; and global positioning system service that offers fleet management service to corporate customers, as well as develops a data exchange platform, On-Board Trucker Information System.

Exponent is a private equity firm that invests in UK headquartered businesses. We invest in successful companies with an enterprise value of between £75m-£350m. Exponent do this by finding the right companies, identifying their potential and working with great people to develop them. Exponent raised an initial fund of £400m from some of the world’s largest and most respected financial institutions. Having deployed this in nine investments, Exponent raised a second fund of £800m. Exponent currently investing from this second fund.Exponent tightly knit team of private equity experts is both well connected in the market and well funded. Exponent’s strong team ethos and personable style are underpinned by 135 years of collective experience. This allows us to take bold decisions and deliver high returns. Because of Exponent extensive experience and because Exponent understand what it means to be owners, Exponent shrewd providers of capital. Exponent aims are to make excellent returns for Exponent investors and deliver profitable relationships for Exponent managers in a committed and personable way.

Ashmore Group plc (Ashmore) is a United Kingdom-based company engaged in providing investment management services. The Company is a fund manager across six core investment themes, such as external debt, local currency, special situations, equity, corporate high yield and multi-strategy. The external debt theme comprises principally United States dollar and other hard currency denominated instruments, which may include derivatives, investing in mainly sovereign bonds. The local currency investment theme comprises local currency and local currency denominated debt instruments. The special situations theme comprises investments in debt and/or other instruments. The equity investment theme comprises public equity and equity-related securities. The corporate high yield investment theme comprises investments in corporate debt within emerging markets.

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