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.

Palladium Equity Partners, LLC was founded in 1997. Palladium Equity Partners, LLC is a venture capital and private equity firm specializing in investments in middle market companies. The firm primarily invests in leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations, corporate spinouts, growth financings, and restructurings. It also invests in late venture companies and may invest in mature businesses. The firm typically invests in business services, financial services, consumer and retail, food, beverage, and restaurants, healthcare, industrial manufacturing, media and entertainment, and telecommunication companies. In the business services sector, it focuses on business process outsourcing; transaction processing; and engineering services. Within the financial services sector, the firm invests in transactional services; money transfer; consumer and specialty finance; and casualty, life, and health insurance; and financial services targeting underserved segments.

HollisWealth Inc. is a Canada-based diversified wealth management company. Through its various subsidiaries, the Company provides diversified wealth management and investment solutions including alternative and tax-advantaged products, capital markets and advisory services to financial advisors, institutions, corporations and foundations, and wealth management through independent financial advisors across Canada. The Company has three main businesses: investment management (HollisWealth Investment), financial advisory, and capital markets, comprised of institutional sales and trading, investment banking and research. HollisWealth Investment operates principally through the Company’s subsidiary, Goodman & Company and through Aurion Capital Management Inc. HollisWealth Financial provides financial advisory and capital market services to both retail and institutional clients across Canada.

Gulf International Bank B.S.C. was founded in 1975 and is headquartered in Manama, Bahrain. Gulf International Bank B.S.C., through its subsidiaries, provides wholesale commercial and investment banking services primarily in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries. The company’s Merchant Banking segment engages in the provision of project financing and other credit facilities for corporate and institutional customers in various sectors, including oil and gas, liquefied natural gas, petrochemicals, power and water, infrastructure, and telecom and technology-based projects, as well as asset-based financing for aircrafts and ships. It also offers financial advisory services relating to structured financing, project finance, privatizations, initial public offerings, and mergers and acquisitions. In addition, this segment provides various debt finance products, such as syndicated debt finance, Islamic finance, export credit, and capital markets. Its Treasury segment provides a range of treasury and capital market products and services to corporate and financial institution clients, including deposits and placements, Euro-commercial paper, spot and forward foreign exchange transactions, fixed and floating rate debt securities, structured debt securities, and foreign exchange and interest rate derivatives.

National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corporation was founded in 1969 and is headquartered in Herndon, Virginia. National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corporation, a private cooperative association, provides its members with a source of financing to supplement the loan programs of the Rural Utilities Service of the United States Department of Agriculture. The company offers loans to its rural utility system members to enable them to acquire, construct, and operate electric distribution, generation, transmission, and related facilities. It also provides credit enhancements in the form of letters of credit and guarantees of debt obligations. The company manages the lending activities and business affairs of Rural Telephone Finance Cooperative, which provides financing to the rural telecommunications members; and the National Cooperative Services Corporation that provides financing to the for-profit and non-profit entities. As of May 31, 2009, the company's consolidated membership was 1,522, including 897 utility members, 498 telecommunications members, 66 service members, and 61 associates located in 49 states, the District of Columbia, and the 2 United States territories.

Administradora de Fondos de Pensiones Provida S.A. was founded in 1981. Administradora de Fondos de Pensiones Provida S.A. operates as a private pension fund administrator in the Republic of Chile. The company’s services include the collection and management of contributions made by affiliates; investments of affiliate’s contributions in pension funds; provide life and disability benefits for affiliates; and provide a senior pension for affiliates. Services of collection and management of contributions made by affiliates The services regarding collection and management provided by the company are referred to mandatory contributions, as well as voluntary contributions made by its affiliates. The company collects monthly mandatory contributions that are withheld from the salaries of its affiliates by their employers and those contributions from its self-employed affiliates. Those monthly contributions are credited into each affiliate’s individual capitalization account. In the case of dependent workers, each employer must provide to the company a monthly payroll listing all its employees who are affiliates of it, identifying the payments being made on behalf of each employee for pension contributions, both mandatory and voluntary. Self-employed workers prepare and submit their own payrolls.

DynaFund provides promising technology companies throughout the United States with the investment capital and active management support they need to grow and succeed. The DynaFund team members have extensive experience as company founders, technologists, financiers, strategic planners, marketers, legal advisors and venture capitalists. In addition, DynaFund provides critical competitive advantages to our portfolio companies by offering access to key engineering, manufacturing, and marketing resources in the U.S. and Asia through business networks established over DynaFund Ventures two decades of successful venture investing.

iD Ventures America, LLC (formerly known as Acer Technology Ventures America, LLC) is a venture capital business unit of iD SoftCapital Group, a group established by Acer founder Stan Shih and former Acer senior management to offer consulting services, and asset and venture fund management. Our mission at iD Ventures America is to facilitate the Intellectual Development of the New Economy through venture investing.iD Ventures America has been active in the venture community since 1998. Currently we have a total of $385 million under management with $85 million in active investments through our latest funds: iD6 Fund established in 2005; iD8 Fund established in 2008; and our most recent fund, iD5 Annex Fund. These funds are invested by Acer and other private investors. Our former funds, comprised of $300 million, have been fully invested into North America and Asia based companies: The Acer Technology Venture Fund and IP Fund One. ATVF and IPF One are invested by Acer affiliated companies and executives, as well as external institutional limited partners.

First Reserve is a leading investment firm specializing in the energy industry. Throughout its 25-year history, First Reserve has developed an unparalleled franchise by investing exclusively in the energy industry and utilizing its broad base of specialized industry knowledge to the benefit of its portfolio companies and investors. First Reserve believes that strategic diversification across a wide range of energy industry sectors has been a major contributor to the long-term, superior investment record achieved by the First Reserve funds across economic cycles.First Reserve is an independently owned firm whose current management team, in place since 1983, collectively has more than 300 years of energy investment experience. The firm has developed a global platform by investing exclusively in the energy industry, having invested approximately $12.5 billion in equity. First Reserve has invested in over 100 platform acquisitions and First Reserve portfolio companies have completed approximately 300 add-on transactions.First Reserve generally targets investments in global energy companies with enterprise values of up to $10 billion. First Reserve’s investor base is predominately institutional and consists primarily of corporate and public retirement funds, sovereign wealth funds, endowments and foundations.

Today, time is the most valuable contribution one company can give another – and time is a rare commodity. WEDGE offers its companies flexibility so that its investments can develop and appreciate in value. Repeatedly, WEDGE demonstrates that time enables its companies to gain noteworthy competitive advantages and achieve strong returns. Acquiring controlling or large minority interests in companies and helping them grow, WEDGE manages its business lines to earn returns on investment far in excess of various indices. Its investments have extended into a wide range of industries and markets. Its practice and patience have gained it a position that is significantly distinct from ordinary investment and private equity firms: one that is time-tolerant, not-time-driven.

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