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.

Epoch Investment Partners, Inc. was founded in April 2004 and is based in New York, New York with an additional office in Sherman Oaks, California. Epoch Holding Corporation (Epoch) is a holding company whose primary line of business is investment advisory and investment management services. The operations of the Company are conducted through its wholly owned subsidiary, Epoch Investment Partners, Inc. (EIP). EIP provides investment advisory and investment management services for retirement plans, mutual funds, endowments, foundations and high net worth individuals. As of June 30, 2009, EIP offered 11 separate investment products to its clients, including U.S. All Cap Value, U.S. Value, U.S. Smid (small/mid) Cap Value, U.S. Small Cap Value, U.S. Choice, International Small Cap, Global Small Cap, Global Choice, Global Absolute Return, Global Equity Shareholder Yield and Balanced Portfolios.

The Chairman, Bruce Rowan, has managed the Company since January 2002. Bruce has a wealth of experience over many years of investing primarily in small company new issues and pre-IPO opportunities in the natural resources and mineral exploration sectors. Bruce is supported by Tony Scutt, non-executive director, and by John Watkins, finance director and company secretary. Tony is an experienced private investor and investment analyst as well as a director of three investee companies; Tony is a qualified Chartered Secretary, a Certified Internal Auditor with the US Institute of Internal Auditors and spent 35 years with Shell. John has been in practice as a Chartered Accountant since 1972, including periods in the City with the accountancy firms of Neville Russell and Ernst & Young. In addition, he is a non-executive director of five Starvest investee companies.

Mavinwood plc, through its subsidiaries, engages in the document handling business in the United Kingdom. It provides document management solutions, including document and asset management consultancy, project management, scanning and data integration, system delivery, contract personnel assignments, archive compression, and facilities management services for oil and gas, railways, civil engineering, power, and shipping/ship building sectors. The company also offers near and deep storage, off-site tape storage, document scanning, file and asset tracking and management, and secure destruction services, as well as specialized storage products primarily for accountancy, corporate, financial, insurance, law, and media firms, as well as local authorities and hospital trusts. In addition, it provides rising damp and damp proofing, timber preservation, structural waterproofing, basement conversion, dry rot and wet rot control, resin repairs, condensation control, wall anchors and stabilization, bird control, and remedial wall ties services for home owner and commercial markets, including surveyors/architects, property owners and managers, local authorities and contractors, and commercial and public buildings.

Sigma Capital Group plc (Sigma), together with its subsidiaries is a specialist asset management and advisory company focused on venture capital, property and the commercialization of university intellectual property (IP). The Company’s property activities are carried out through its wholly owned subsidiary, Strategic Investment Management Holdings Ltd (SIMH) and its subsidiary companies, which establish and operate limited partnerships investing in commercial property in the United Kingdom. As of December 31, 2009, the Company manages, and is an investor in four venture funds and two university funds, the Sigma Technology Venture Fund (the Venture Fund), the Sigma Innovation Fund (East of Scotland) (the Innovation Fund), the Sigma Sustainable Energies Fund (the Sustainable Energies Fund), the Sigma Sustainable Energy Fund II (the Sustainable Energy Fund II), the RGU Ventures Investment Fund (the RGU Fund), and the University of Dundee Venture Fund (the Dundee Fund).

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.

Global Life Science Ventures was founded in 1996 and is based at München, Germany with an additional office at Zug, Switzerland. Global Life Science Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in early stage investments originating from universities, scientific institutions or industry. The firm also makes selected investments in late stage companies including buyouts. It primarily invests in the life science sector. The firm invests in companies based in United States and Europe with a focus on United Kingdom, Switzerland, and home markets in German speaking countries. It prefers to invest between €2 million ($2.57 million) and €5 million ($6.43 million) in a company per round of financing. The firm invests up to 10 percent of the total volume in a company. In the European home market, it seeks to be a lead investor or an active co-investor but prefers to be co-investor outside the home market. The firm prefers to be a pro-active syndicate partner in its portfolio companies. It also provides follow-on financing and seeks a board seat in its portfolio companies.

Baker Capital, founded in 1995, is a New York-based private equity firm with $ 1.5 billion under management. Baker Capital invests in growth companies at all stages of development in both Europe and North America. The partners of Baker Capital have extensive private equity and operational experience, allowing the firm to provide its portfolio companies with not only capital but also strategic thinking and relationships.

Bridgepoint Capital Limited was founded in 1996 and is based in London, United Kingdom. Bridgepoint Capital Limited is a private equity firm specializing in buyout, buy-in, growth, middle market, consolidation, and public-to-private transactions. The firm prefers to make investments in all sectors including companies engaged in the consumer, financial services, healthcare, media and technology, support services, industrials, business services, and transport industries. Within the business services sector the firm prefers to invest in professional services and business process outsourcing, property and facility services, testing, inspection and certification, equipment rental and asset outsourcing, and transport services and infrastructure. Within the consumer industry investments are sought in companies engaged in food and drink, travel and hospitality, health and fitness, entertainment, specialist retail, leisure, FMCG, pubs and restaurants, and consumer goods. Additionally, the firm seeks to invest in retail turnaround situations or where a consumer brand is capable of further rollout. It seeks to invest in sub-prime lending, independent financial advisers, insurance broking, fund management, support services, consumer and specialist finance, financial infrastructure, technology and services, and wealth and asset management within the financial services sector.

Seanergy Maritime Holdings Corp., the successor to Seanergy Maritime Corp., is a Marshall Islands corporation with its executive offices in Athens, Greece. The Company is engaged in the transportation of dry bulk cargoes through the ownership and operation of dry bulk carriers. The Company's initial fleet comprised two Panamax, two Supramax, one Handymax and one Handysize dry bulk carriers that Seanergy purchased and took delivery of in the third and fourth quarters of 2008 from companies associated with members of the Restis family. In August 2009, the Company acquired a controlling interest in Bulk Energy Transport (Holdings) Limited, which owns four Capesize and one Panamax dry bulk carriers. In May 2010, the Company acquired a controlling interest in Maritime Capital Shipping Limited, which owns nine Handysize dry bulk carriers. The Company's current controlled fleet includes 20 drybulk carriers (four Capesize, three Panamax, two Supramax and one Handymax and 10 Handysize vessels) with a total carrying capacity of approximately 1,292,544 dwt and an average fleet age of 12.7 years.

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