Growth Capital Partners, L.P. was founded in 1992 and is based in Houston, Texas with additional offices in Greenwich, Connecticut and Dallas and Austin, Texas. Growth Capital Partners, L.P. (GCP) is a boutique investment bank that offers financial advisory and merchant banking services to private and public middle market companies. The firm provides mergers and acquisitions, pre-IPO advisory, private placement, strategic advisory, management-led buyouts, recapitalization, restructuring, and strategic advisory services. The firm’s clientele include Roofing Supply Group, Silver Eagle Distributors, The SCOOTER Store, Critieria Labs, Ambion, Rennhack Marketing Services, American Central Gas Technologies, and Standard Fruit and Vegetable Co. GCP caters to energy, consumer and retail, business services, technology and software, healthcare, and manufacturing and distribution industries.

Argosy Private Equity business, the investment firm focuses on buyouts, recapitalizations, and financing of middle-market firms in the eastern half of the US with annual sales between $15 million and $100 million. The company prefers to invest in smaller firms with room for growth, and it provides them not only with capital, but operational support and strategic planning. Typical investments range from $3 million to $9 million per transaction. Its portfolio contains stakes in some 35 companies, mainly in the manufacturing, industrial electronics, and industrial and business services sectors.

Axiom Venture Partners provides capital and strategic assistance to rapidly growing high technology companies. Axiom’s professionals bring substantial investing experience and industry expertise to the venture capital process. With over $200M in capital under management, the firm seeks to consider investment proposals in two main industry areas. The first is High Technology which includes Communications, Software, Internet Infrastructure and Information Technology. Biotechnology constitutes the second area.Located in Hartford, Connecticut, Axiom invests actively throughout the United States in early or late stage companies. Approximately 15 Axiom portfolio companies have successfully completed IPO’s in recent years and a number of others are positioned for IPO’s when appropriate market conditions prevail. Given this success, Axiom’s investment returns rank near the top of its industry. Axiom is actively investing its third Partnership, Axiom Venture Partners III.

Bayview Capital Group specializes in mergers and acquisitions-related services for middle-market companies in the service and manufacturing sectors. The company has completed about 100 such transactions since it was founded in 1995; clients typically have annual sales between $10 million and $150 million. Bayview Capital believes that serving only smaller firms and focusing on relatively few transactions at a time give it a competitive advantage over bulge-bracket investment banks.

Hellman & Friedman LLC was founded in 1984 and is headquartered at San Francisco, California with offices in New York, New York and London, United Kingdom. Hellman & Friedman LLC is a private equity firm specializing in leveraged recapitalizations, acquisitions, buys and builds, traditional buyouts, financial restructurings, growth investments, and numerous types of minority investments. It invests in public and private companies. The firm makes investments in marketing and professional services, asset management and other business and financial services, insurance, energy, healthcare, industrials, vertical software and information services industries, internet, media, and communications. It targets investments in companies based in United States, Europe, and Australia. The firm seeks to invest between $200 million and $750 million in its portfolio companies. It may act as a controlling shareholder and as an influential minority investor. The firm prefers to invest alongside management in companies going through transitions including private or closely held businesses looking to institutionalize, to go public, to de-mutualize, or to undertake public to private transactions.

Community Bankers Trust Corporation was founded in 1926 and is headquartered in Glen Allen, Virginia. Community Bankers Trust Corporation (CBTC) is a bank holding company for Essex Bank (the Bank). The Bank engages in commercial banking business and provides a range of financial services primarily to individuals and small businesses, including individual and commercial demand and time deposit accounts, commercial and consumer loans, travelers checks, safe deposit box facilities, investment services and fixed rate residential mortgages. On January 30, 2009, the Bank acquired Suburban Federal Savings Bank, Crofton, Maryland (SFSB). Essex Services, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Bank and was formed to sell title insurance to the Bank’s mortgage loan customers. Essex Services, Inc. also offers insurance products through an ownership interest in Bankers Insurance, LLC and investment products through an affiliation with VBA Investments, LLC.

Intrepid Capital is here to help you face the sometimes frightening world of investing. Through subsidiary Intrepid Capital Management the company manages investments for institutional investors such as corporations, labor unions, foundations, and endowments, as well as wealthy individuals and families. Its products include small-cap and multi-cap equity, high-yield fixed-income, and balanced portfolios. The company invests in a variety of sectors including retail stores, consumer products, and sporting facilities. Chairman Forrest Travis founded Intrepid Capital in 1994 along with his son Mark, who is president and CEO of the firm.

Henderson Group plc is engaged in the provision of investment management services. Henderson Global Investors (Henderson) is an investment manager, operating throughout Europe and with operations in North America and Asia. It manages a range of actively managed investment products for institutional and retail investors, across multiple asset classes, including equities, fixed income, property and private equity. Its subsidiaries include Henderson Global Group Limited, Henderson Administration Limited, Henderson Alternative Investment Advisor Limited, Henderson Equity Partners Limited, Henderson Fund Management Plc and Henderson Holdings Limited. On 9 April 2009, the Company acquired New Star Asset Management Group PLC.

Alta Berkeley LLP is a venture capital firm that targets information technology, communications, and life science startups, primarily in Europe and Israel. It has raised six funds and has invested in more than 100 businesses since 1982. Invested companies (both past and present) include analogue semiconductor designer Elantec Semiconductors, digital consumer semiconductor manufacturer Frontier Silicon, clinical software designer Araccel, imaging systems provider Camero, and wireless devices technology manufacturer Cambridge Positioning Systems.

GFI Group is an inter-dealer hybrid brokerage that acts as an intermediary for more than 2,000 institutional clients such as banks, large corporations, insurance companies, and hedge funds. GFI Group Inc. deals primarily in over-the-counter derivatives, which tend to be less liquid and thus harder to trade than other assets. GFI Group Inc. also offers market data and analysis on credit, equity, commodity, and currency derivatives, and other financial instruments. Other products include foreign exchange options, freight, and energy derivatives including electric power, coal, and carbon emissions options. GFI has about 20 offices in North and South America, Europe, and Australasia.

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