Sagentia Group was founded in 1986. Sagentia Group PLC, together with its subsidiaries, operates as a technology consulting, product development, and IP licensing company that commercializes various science and technology solutions. The company creates, develops, and delivers business opportunities, products and services for its clients. Its product portfolio includes Ebonex, a conductive ceramic material; Cap-Track and MuTrack, which are contact-less inductive sensing technologies; and a contact-less inductive sensing ‘Pad’ technology. The company also assists business leaders to create strategies for technology, innovation, and growth. In addition, Sagentia Group offers asset management services, and property and central services; and proprietary Internet protocol licensing services. It offers its products and services in the areas of engineering, materials, telecommunications, life sciences, business innovation, and electronics.

GFI Energy Ventures, LLC was founded in 1995 and is based in Los Angeles, California. GFI Energy Ventures, LLC is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in acquisitions and buyouts. The firm does not invest in start-up and turnaround situations. It prefers to invest in the energy and power sector with a focus on companies engaged in power quality and power conversion; energy measurement and control; transmission and distribution optimization; information systems and transaction support; and demand management. The firm targets the downstream portion of the market with emphasis on the point of interface among the energy supplier, transporter, marketer, and industrial and commercial end-users. It also does not invest in unproven technologies and companies having an equity investment requirement of less than $30 million. The firm seeks to invest in companies having enterprise values between $50 million and $500 million and minimum revenues of $50 million. It seeks to acquire controlling or significant interests in private companies or business units of public companies. The firm also acquires large equity positions in publicly traded companies under certain circumstances.

A pension plan has existed for Ontario teachers since 1917. Today, the plan’s members include 175,000 teachers in elementary and secondary schools in Ontario, 114,000 pensioners, and 69,000 inactive members. The plan has one of Canada’s largest payrolls with $4.4 billion in benefits paid to plan members, and $2.7 billion received in total contributions from teachers, the provincial government and designated employers in 2009.Before 1990, the plan was administered by the Ontario government and restricted to investing in non-marketable Province of Ontario debentures. In 1990, the government established the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board as a corporation overseen by a nine-member board.With $96.4 billion in net assets at December 31, 2009, the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (Teachers’) is the largest single-profession pension plan in Canada. An independent organization, it invests the pension fund’s assets and administers the pensions of 289,000 active and retired teachers in Ontario.

Conning & Company was founded in 1912 and is headquartered in Hartford, Connecticut with additional offices in Dublin and London. Conning & Company was formerly a subsidiary of Swiss Reinsurance Co. Conning & Company provides insurance asset management and investment management services, and insurance-related research publications. It specializes in fixed-income products for institutional investors. The company, through its subsidiaries, offers insurance research, including information products, and insights and analyses of issues confronting the insurance industry, as well as provides insurance asset management, including portfolio management, and investment accounting and reporting services in the United States and Europe. It also provides access to various financial investment products, such as structured securities, derivative strategies and investment banking, and insurance and banking equity research.

GSC Group is a registered investment advisor specializing in complex credit-based alternative investment strategies. GSC Group is privately owned, has over 40 employees, and has offices in New Jersey and London. The Firm was founded in 1999 by Alfred C. Eckert III, the Company’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. Its senior executives and advisors are in many cases long-time colleagues who have worked together extensively at other institutions including private equity, distressed debt and investment banking firms. Through the combined experience of these individuals, GSC Group identifies sectors of the credit markets that it believes to be attractive. GSC Group generally invests its own capital alongside the capital of its clients.

BMO Capital Markets is a leading, full-service North American financial services provider offering equity and debt underwriting, corporate lending and project financing, merger and acquisitions advisory services, merchant banking, securitization, treasury management, market risk management, debt and equity research and institutional sales and trading. BMO Capital Markets has over 2,200 employees operating in 27 locations around the world, including 15 in North America. BMO Capital Markets is a member of BMO Financial Group (NYSE, TSX: BMO), one of the largest diversified financial services providers in North America with US$384 billion total assets and 37,000 employees as at April 30, 2010.

CCP Equity Partners was founded in 1985 and is based in Hartford, Connecticut. CCP Equity Partners is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in investments in growth equity, mid and late venture stages, buyouts, middle market, and mature transactions. It prefers to invest in financial and healthcare services companies. The firm typically invests in companies based in North America. It seeks to invest between $5 million and $20 million over the life of an investment. The firm prefers to invest in companies with revenues between $5 million and $100 million. It typically acts as a lead or co-investor.

The Gores Group, founded by Alec E. Gores in 1987, is a private equity firm focused on acquiring controlling interests in mature and growing businesses which can benefit from the firm’s operating experience and flexible capital. Since its inception, Gores has acquired 60 companies worldwide with combined revenues in excess of 15 billion dollars. Currently, Gores has 2.7 billion dollars in equity under active management. Gores’ offices in North America and Europe serve its active investment programs in these regions.The firm combines the operational expertise and detailed due diligence capabilities of a strategic buyer with the seasoned M&A team of a traditional financial buyer. As a result, the firm looks to create value with its operating perspective, in addition to the more customary buy-out and financial engineering skills.Gores has become a leading investor, primarily in the technology, telecommunications, business services and industrial sectors, having demonstrated over time a reliable track record of creating substantial value in its portfolio companies alongside management. Private equity-backed companies, like those that Gores invests in, have been shown to grow faster than other types of companies and Gores' private equity returns have consistently and significantly outperformed publicly traded indices.

Siebert Financial, through subsidiary Muriel Siebert & Co., provides discount securities brokerage and institutional financial services. Siebert Financial Corp. retail division offers equity trading, mutual fund access, and retirement accounts to self-directed individual investors. Customers can access their accounts and trade by phone, Internet, wireless device, or in person at seven retail branches in California, Florida, New Jersey, and New York. Siebert Financial provides securities trading and underwriting and other services to corporations and government entities. Founder and president Muriel "Mickie" Siebert, the first woman member of the New York Stock Exchange, owns some 90% of the company. Siebert Financial Corp. was founded in 1886 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

World Acceptance Corporation engages in small-loan consumer finance business. It offers short-term small loans, medium-term larger loans, related credit insurance, and ancillary products and services, as well as loans standardized by amount and maturity. World Acceptance Corporation also offers income tax return preparation services and access to refund anticipation loans. In addition, World Acceptance Corporation markets and sells credit life, credit accident and health, credit property, and unemployment insurance products; markets automobile club memberships to its borrowers; and reinsures credit insurance. Further, World Acceptance Corporation, through its subsidiary, ParaData Financial Systems, provides data processing systems; and markets computer software and related services to financial services companies. World Acceptance Corporation serves individuals with limited access to consumer credit from banks, savings and loans, other consumer finance businesses, and credit card lenders. As of March 31, 2009, the company has 944 offices in South Carolina, Georgia, Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Tennessee, Illinois, Missouri, New Mexico, Kentucky, Alabama, and Mexico. World Acceptance Corporation was founded in 1962 and is headquartered in Greenville, South Carolina.

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