Sanford C. Bernstein, a unit of AllianceBernstein (formerly Alliance Capital Management), was founded by the late Sanford Bernstein in 1967 to manage the discretionary accounts of the wealthy; it has some $70 billion of assets under management for affluent families, as well as pension funds and corporate investors. Sanford Bernstein's hallmark, however, is the fundamental company and industry research and securities valuation it performs for institutional clients. Sanford C. Bernstein company is active mainly in the US, where it maintains some 20 offices.

Meritech Capital Partners was founded in 1999. Meritech Capital Partners places late-stage venture capital investments in information technology and communications technology companies with proven track records and quality management teams. It also participates in buyouts and spinoffs. The firm manages almost $2 billion in committed capital. Portfolio holdings include interests in networking equipment maker BigBand Networks, optical switch maker Agility Communications, and data storage device maker BlueArc, and distributed antenna systems builder NextG Networks. Meritech has been investing heavily in companies based in, or with extensive operations in, foreign countries, including Canada, China, the Netherlands, and the UK.

Founded in 1997, Global Forex Trading company is a division of Global Futures & Forex Ltd. Specializing in online foreign exchange (forex) trading, the company provides software, tools, and resources for retail and institutional traders to enter the forex trading market. Global Forex Trading company's DealBook software functions as a trading platform providing order entry, market analysis, real-time currency prices, and news services. Global Forex Trading company also offers mobile and Web versions of its software.

E. J. De La Rosa & Co., Inc. was founded in 1989 by its president Edward De La Rosa. E. J. De La Rosa & Co. helps raise the money that keeps the Golden State blooming. The investment bank, with offices in Los Angeles and San Francisco, helps secure funding for municipalities, redevelopment agencies, utilities, institutions of higher learning, and private businesses. The money raised typically goes toward capital projects such as wastewater systems and redevelopment. In addition to underwriting new bond issues, De La Rosa sells and trades bonds in the secondary market. Other services include capital planning and project development.

ABRY Partners, LLC was co-founded in 1989 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts. ABRY Partners, LLC is a private equity firm specializing in late stage; total buy-outs of financial investors, families, publicly-traded or strategic owners; acquisition roll-ups, platform acquisitions; leveraged buyouts; industry consolidations; add-on acquisitions; mezzanine, recapitalizations, turnaround; and growth capital investments. It prefers to invest in media, communication, business services, education, entertainment, healthcare services, information services, and online media industries with a focus on television and radio broadcasting, cable television, business-to-business, magazine publishing, newsletter publishing, conventions/trade shows, for-profit training, couponing, monitoring services, telephone companies, communications towers, consumer magazine publishing, recorded music libraries, proprietary database providers, wireless communications, and in-store advertising. The firm typically invests between $25 million and $150 million of equity in case of the private equity fund or between $15 million and $50 million of mezzanine/senior equity capital in its portfolio companies.

Turner Investment Partners, Inc. was founded in 1990 and is based in Berwyn, Pennsylvania with an additional office in Hartford, Connecticut. Turner Investment Partners, Inc. is an employee owned investment firm. The firm primarily provides its services to investment companies, pension and profit sharing plans, and state and municipal government entities. It also caters to pension funds, foundations, public companies, other asset managers and pooled investment vehicles, financial advisors, banking and thrift institutions, individuals, charitable and non-charitable organizations, educational and non-profit enterprises, public-employee retirement systems, and Taft-Hartley plans. The firm manages separate client focused equity portfolios. It also manages a family of mutual funds for its clients.

Gresham offers a helping hand to mid-market businesses around the UK. The private equity investment firm, which is known for its partnership approach, specializes in management buyouts up to £100 million ($160 million). The company particularly focuses on business services, consumer and financial services, industrial products, healthcare, and energy. Past investments include 2e2, stair lift manufacturer Minivator, and building services supplier Warings Contractors. In 2009 Gresham led a £20.8 million ($35.3 million) management buyout of the entertainment and sports management businesses of financial advisory firm Formation Group. Gresham has offices in Birmingham, London, and Manchester.

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.

Harris & Harris Group has been investing in companies with proprietary technology since 1983. For most of Harris & Harris history, Harris & Harris were a very small firm that invested in and helped develop early stage businesses, particularly ones founded on proprietary intellectual property.Harris & Harris Group, Inc.® is an active investor committed to working side-by-side with the management of its portfolio companies to surmount the many challenges they confront. Harris & Harris assist Harris & Harris portfolio companies in attacking general strategic and operational problems, as well as assisting them with business and intellectual property strategy, executive recruiting, fundraising, preparing for compliance with Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and building collaborations with strategic partners.Harris & Harris believe in the classical early stage venture capital model and disciplines. Harris & Harris think that most technology-based start-ups can use all the help they can get from the diversified experiences, network of contacts, complimentary business networks, technical expertise, up-to-date customer connections and financial resources that a syndicate of professional venture capital investors can provide.Harris & Harris are looking for scientific, technological, business and execution excellence. Proprietary, well-protected and highly differentiated technology is a prerequisite. However, Harris & Harris are eager to invest in companies with market-centric strategies that seek to define and dominate large product categories. But above all, Harris & Harris back passionate entrepreneurs who want to change the world with their nanotechnology-enabled products.

Piper Jaffray Companies is an international investment bank and institutional securities firm, serving the needs of corporations, private equity groups, public entities, non-profit clients and institutional investors. It provides a set of products and services, including equity and debt capital markets products, public finance services, financial advisory services, equity and fixed income institutional brokerage, equity and fixed income research, and asset management services. The Company markets the investment banking and institutional securities business under Piper Jaffray name. It markets the primary asset management business under the name of FAMCO, which is derived from Fiduciary Asset Management, LLC. Piper Jaffray Company operates in four business segments: investment banking, equity and fixed income institutional brokerage, asset management, and other income. In March 2010, the Company acquired Advisory Research, Inc., an asset management firm focused in equity strategies.

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