Alfred M. Masse

Strouds, Inc. is a specialty retailer of better quality bed, bath, tabletop, other home textiles products, decorative accessories, window treatments, furniture, area rugs and other selected home furnishings. It introduces Internet business. The company operated nearly 68 stores in five states under the name Strouds. The company was founded in July 1979 and is headquartered in City of Industry, CA.

MakeMusic, Inc. provides music education technology services. The firm operates through two segments: Notation and SmartMusic. The Notation segment includes the design, development, sales, and marketing for the Finale family of music notation software products, MusicXML and Dolet software and Garritan sound libraries. The SmartMusic segment includes the design, development, amortization of capitalized song title development, sales, and marketing of the subscription-based SmartMusic product line, and related accessories. The company was founded by John W. Paulson in 1990 and is headquartered in Boulder, CO.

LaunchEquity Partners LLC (LaunchEquity Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 2006 by Andy Stephens. The firm is headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Part of D.E. Shaw & Co. II, Inc., D.E. Shaw & Co. LLC is a company that provides investment advice. The company is based in New York, NY.

University of Washington functions as a College/University. The company is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Metropolitan West Asset Management LLC (MWAM) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Los Angeles, California. The firm was founded in 1996 by Tad Rivelle, Laird Landmann and Stephen Kane. They are wholly-owned by TCW Asset Management Co. LLC, which in turn is a wholly-owned subsidiary of The TCW Group, Inc. MWAM offers fixed income portfolio management services to institutional investors, as well as individual investors through the Metropolitan West Funds.

Legal & General Investment Management America, Inc. (LGIM America) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The firm was founded in 2006 and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Legal & General Investment Management US (Holdings), Inc., ultimately held by Legal & General Group PLC (LON: LGEN) in Great Britain. LGIM America provides investment management services on a fully discretionary basis to institutional clients (corporations, healthcare agencies, non-profit, educational institutions, public plans and Taft-Hartley multi-employer plans).

Bobrick Washroom Equipment Co. engages in manufacturing metal sanitary ware products. The company is headquartered in Scarborough, Canada.

Silver Canyon Group LLC (Silver Canyon Group) is a private equity firm founded in 2010 by Timothy R. Kelleher. The firm is headquartered in San Diego, California.

Quantum Restaurants LLC owns and operates restaurants. The private company is located in the US.

Enterprise Management Advisors LLC, also known as EMAGroup, is a financial advisory firm that focuses on tying operational improvement to financial performance, improved cash flows, and working capital management. The private company is based in Los Angeles, CA. The company has decades of experience in preserving and creating added value for scores of companies. EMAGroup assists companies in transition by developing and managing effective financial and operational strategies to uncover hidden value. The company also provides insolvency services and brings decades of restructuring and insolvency leadership experience among its senior professionals. EMAGroup takes a holistic approach to the business and advises clients on operational and financial advisory strategies.