CME Group was founded in 1898 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. CME Group Inc. offers access to all asset classes for futures products from a single electronic trading platform, and on trading floors in Chicago and New York City. The Company offers markets in futures and options on futures contracts based on the United States interest rate yield curve, equity indexes, foreign exchange, agricultural commodities, energy, metals and alternative investment products. Its products are traded through the CME Globex electronic trading platform, its open outcry auction markets in Chicago and New York City or through privately negotiated transactions that the Company clears. It serves the risk management and investment needs of customers around the globe. As of December 31, 2009, the Company had approximately 140 clearing firms. In April 2009, the Company acquired the Carvill Hurricane Index from Carvill America Inc. and renamed it the CME Hurricane Index.

Nomura Holdings is the parent company of Nomura Securities, Japan's leading investment bank and brokerage house. Nomura Holdings, Inc. performs trading, equity and bond underwriting, research, and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) advisory services. Nomura Holdings, Inc. also makes private equity and venture capital investments. Nomura's largest segment is domestic retail, which provides investment consulting and brokerage services to consumers in its home market. Nomura Holdings, Inc. asset management segment manages more than �25 trillion (more than $225 billion) on behalf of its clients. Nomura Holdings has operations in more than 30 countries. Nomura Securities International is the company's US trading and investment banking unit.

Golden Gate Capital was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. Golden Gate Capital is a private equity firm specializing in leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations, corporate extractions, distressed, bankruptcy acquisitions, public-to-private transactions, consolidations, build-ups, and growth equity investments. The firm seeks to invest in technology sectors with a focus on semiconductors, electronics, software, information technology services, financial services, security, media, consumer products, and retail. Within semiconductors, it focuses on specialty device and semiconductor equipment businesses. In electronics, the firm invests in hardware and electronics manufacturing and related services. Within financial services, it focuses on specialty finance, insurance, and outsourcing businesses. In consumer and retail, the firm prefers to invest in consumer products, specialty retail, direct marketing, and restaurants.

3i Infrastructure Limited was founded in 2007 and is based in St. Helier, Channel Islands. It is a subsidiary of 3i Group Plc. 3i Infrastructure Limited is a private equity abd venture capital firm specializing in investments in early stage assets, mature assets, acquisitions, and projects and privatizations undergoing a period of operational ramp-up. The firm primarily invests in infrastructure companies and assets. It seeks to invest across the world, but with an initial focus on Europe, North America, and Asia. The firm primarily invests in unquoted companies, but may also invest in listed companies. It seeks board representation in its portfolio companies.

InternetArray, Inc. was founded in 1995. nternetArray wants to align with an assortment of online companies. InternetArray, formerly U.S. MedSys, offers financing and advice to early-stage Internet companies. Calling its charges "partners," InternetArray provides marketing, sales, administrative, and other back-office assistance in exchange for a share of the partner company. InternetArray company owns social media developer Noobis, which is working with social networking sites in China, the US, the UK, and Canada. Noobis' Amplify product helps not-for-profits set up fundraising networks. InternetArray also owns BidSellBuy.com, an online auction and shopping network.

Israel Corp. is Israel's largest holding company and one of the top ten companies listed on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE: ILCO) in terms of market capitalization.* It is also a global player with 50% of its manufacturing activities and close to 70% of its consolidated revenues derived from worldwide operations. The company's core holdings focus on industries that meet basic human, industrial and economic needs: fertilizers and specialty chemicals, energy, shipping and transportation.Israel Corp. is a long term investor with a strong reinvestment approach that balances the pursuit of economic value with environmental and social responsibility. Over the past forty years, Israel Corp. has played a pivotal role in the privatization of government-owned enterprises, helping their managements to transform them into multi-billion dollar global companies that are among the most innovative, profitable and responsible of their respective peer groups.

Axcess International, Inc. was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Addison, Texas. Axcess International, Inc. provides patented radio frequency identification and real time location systems that locate, track, monitor, count, and protect people, assets, and vehicles in the United States. Axcess company offers ActiveTag, a multi-use, single-system solution that supports automatic monitoring and tracking applications, including electronic asset protection and asset management, automatic personnel and vehicle access control, and wireless sensing; and Online supervisor software that provides real time management solutions through reporting, display, and decision and control functions. Its products have applications in automated workforce management, and fleet access control and data capture solutions; electronic asset protection and tracking; electronic inventory control and tracking; and automatic personnel identification.Axcess company also engages in the development, design, manufacture, and marketing of video security technology and video storage products; and packaging, sale, and marketing of high technology security products. It provides its solutions for corporate access control and asset management, airport and port security infrastructure homeland defense, civil and military government, education, and inventory and transportation management. Axcess International, Inc. sells its products through system integrators, distributors, specialty dealers, catalog sales organizations, and original equipment manufacturers.

Bruckmann, Rosser, Sherrill & Co., L.L.C. ("BRS") is a New York-based private equity investment firm with approximately $1.4 billion in funds under management. Founded in 1995 by former senior executives of Citicorp Venture Capital, Ltd., BRS specializes in management buyouts and recapitalizations of high quality, middle market companies with strong market positions and/or growth potential. BRS's philosophy is to back the management of its portfolio companies, allowing them operational freedom with long-term equity incentives and support. BRS provides expertise to portfolio companies in the areas of financing, acquisitions and strategic long-term planning focused upon realization of value.The founders of BRS have had extensive experience since the mid 1980's in initiating, negotiating, financing, closing and overseeing numerous private equity investments in diverse industries throughout a range of economic cycles and financial market conditions. They have undertaken management buyouts of public companies, private companies, and divisions of larger companies; recapitalizations of closely held companies providing both liquidity and continual ownership to existing owners; build-ups of significant enterprises through acquisitions; and equity investments in growth companies.

AFT Corporation Limited provides clean air technologies for the marine and built environments, as well as building materials and facades for the construction industry primarily in Australia. Its patented Microgenix and MAQ technology offers purified air and odour control technologies for use in the marine environment. The company supplies building products, such as glass curtain walls, facades, ceramic tiles, and solar photovoltaic cell panels. It also focuses on leveraging custom designed Chinese manufactured building products to customers, who require turnkey solutions for their projects. In addition, it provides logistics services. AFT Corporation is headquartered in St. Leonards, Australia.

AssetCo is in the thick of things. The integrated services company specializes in providing support for emergency response and homeland security agencies in the UK and some 145 countries around the world. Primarily serving the public-service sector, AssetCo offers an array of services including training, fire reserve, emergency vehicle assembly and management, infrastructure support, equipment supply, and technology and information management. Customers include the London Fire Brigade and all other fire and rescue organizations in Great Britain. AssetCo also has an international office in Abu Dhabi, which specializes in serving the civil defense, emergency services, airport and military sectors.

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