The Parkmead Group tries to smooth the path with its corporate finance and investment services. (The Parkmead, through its Quayside Corporate Services unit, also provides a variety of business turnaround services.) Formerly known as Interregnum, the Parkmead Group has invested in such companies as software architecture designer Adaptive, content management provider Open Text, multimedia messaging supplier Yospace, and software security provider KeCrypt. In 2009, the firm bought energy consultant Aupec Ltd. in a cash and stock deal. The Parkmead assists businesses with mergers and acquisitions, buyouts, and other related transactions.

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.

With a heritage dating from the 1960s, PineBridge Investments is an independent multi-product investment adviser with US $83 billion* in assets under management. PineBridge Investments is an investment arm of American International Group, Inc. It specializes in distressed investments. The firm provides a platform for customized portfolio construction and client based servicing. The firm manages a diversified product line of alternative investments including: private equity investments, fund of funds, small to mid-market buyout funds, hedge funds, real estate investment funds and fixed income strategies. The Alternative Investment Group's Private Equity program provides equity and mezzanine financing for private and public companies at different stages of development. PineBridge Investments is based in New York, New York with additional offices in Ontario, Canada; Tokyo, Japan; Tiajin, China; Houston; Texas; and Manila; Philippines.

Established in 1984, Consolidated Firstfund Capital is a property management and venture capital business operating primarily in Canada and on the West Coast of the US. Consolidated Firstfund company chiefly assists businesses with fundraising through equity debt or other methods of investments and targets public and private companies residing in the resort development (and real estate), high-tech, tourism, and manufacturing sectors. Consolidated Firstfund company has invested in such companies as nutritional food products supplier Vitality Products, medical device designer MDMI Technologies, and portable power products supplier Battery & Wireless Solutions.

Landmark Global Financial Corporation operates as an investment company. The company invests in companies that are participating in potentially high growth markets. Its portfolio includes companies in the fields of health, consumer marketing and media. Portfolio Investments The company, within the Investment Segment, also has an interest in various companies: Serica Energy Corporation is an international oil and gas exploration and production company with projects in various locales such as, Indonesia, the UK North Sea and Spain. Fifth Window Media, Inc. (FWMI) is in the process of developing an internet based advertising product. The company is a party to a letter of intent whereby the company would own a portion of FWMI and would provide management services. MedX Health Corp. is a medical technology company that develops, manufactures and distributes phototherapy devices that are FDA approved. The company also has 8% interest in Salumatics, Inc. Salumatics, Inc.: Salumatics, Inc. provides software and related services to the health care business, primarily in the area of health record management. Salumatics has resale agreements with major providers of Electronic Health Record software and also sells its own internally developed software.

Citadel Investment Group, L.L.C was founded in 1990 and is based in Chicago, Illinois with additional offices in New York, New York; and San Francisco, California. Citadel Investment Group, L.L.C is a privately owned investment manager. The firm manages client focused portfolios and hedge funds for its clients. It invests in the public equity, fixed income, and alternative investment markets across the globe. As part of its alternative investments, the firms invests in currency, commodities, and derivatives such as interest-rate swaps, futures, options, repurchase agreements, and reverse repurchase agreements. Its fixed income investments include investments in government bonds and mortgage-backed securities. The firm employs a mix of strategies including credit arbitrage and structured credit strategies to make its investments. It employs a combination of quantitative and fundamental analysis with a bottom-up stock picking approach to create its investment portfolio. The firm makes its investments in the stocks of companies operating across diversified sectors. It conducts an in-house research to make its investments.

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.

Guangdong Investment Limited engages in investment holding, property holding and investment, investing in infrastructure and energy projects, water supply business, highway operations, electric power generation, financing, hotel ownership and operations, property development, toll roads and bridges construction, hotel management, and department stores operation. The company is a subsidiary of GDH Limited. Segments The company’s segments include Property Investment and Development; Toll Roads and Bridges; Water Distribution; Electric Power Generation; Hotel Operations and Management; and Department Stores. Property Investment and Development segment invests in various properties in Hong Kong and Mainland China that are held for rental income purposes, and engages in the development of properties in Mainland China. This segment also provides property management services for certain commercial properties; and rents a shopping mall, including department stores, as well as two tower blocks. Toll Roads and Bridges segment invests in various road and bridge projects in Mainland China. Water Distribution segment operates a water supply project in Mainland China supplying natural water to Hong Kong, Dongguan, and Shenzhen. Electric Power Generation segment operates coal-fire power plants that supply electricity in the Guangdong Province, Mainland China.

Lightyear Capital and its affiliated investment funds specialize in providing buyout and growth capital to companies across the financial services industry. Founded in 2000, Lightyear Capital has managed approximately $3 billion in committed capital. With its Principals averaging over 25 years of experience across the financial services industry, Lightyear Capital is ideally positioned to respond to the challenges and opportunities of financial services investing. Lightyear Capital has fully invested The Lightyear Fund, L.P. and is currently investing Lightyear Fund II, L.P.

MTN Capital Partners is a private investment firm that focuses on middle-market companies valued at less than $100 million. It targets profitable and rapidly growing firms, but also considers those that are unprofitable or are up for auction. Often investing along side other firms, MTN typically seeks out opportunities in the specialty retail, consumer products, media, automotive, and manufacturing sectors. Some of the firm's co-investments/co-sponsorships include New Jersey high-end grocery store chain Kings Super Markets and Canada-based custom footwear maker The Orthotic Group.

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