Christian T. Munafo

Octagon Research Solutions, Inc. provides software services to the pharmaceutical sectors. The company was founded by James C. Walker in 1999 and is headquartered in King of Prussia, PA.

HQ Capital Private Equity LLC is a Private Equity firm, a subsidiary of HQ Capital US LLC founded in 1989 by Marcel Alain Giacometti. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Liberty Street Advisors, Inc. (Liberty Street) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded by Timothy W. Reick in 2006. Liberty Street provides investment advisory services to open-end mutual funds which are part of the Liberty Street open-end fund family within the series of Investment Managers Series Trust, a management investment company registered under the Investment Company Act.

Thomas Weisel Global Growth Partners is a venture capital/private equity firm located in San Francisco. The firm is an affiliate of Thomas Weisel Partners Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: TWPG). Their ultimate parent is Stifel Financial Corp. (NYSE: SF). The firm is headquartered in San Francisco.

Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, Banc of America Securities (BAS) is the investment banking subsidiary of Bank of America Corp (NYSE: BAC). The firm provides both the domestic and international equity and investment banking markets, and pursues a strategy pioneered by Citigroup that combines corporate lending with investment banking advice and services. They provide high-yield debt underwriting and leveraged finance, in addition to industry coverage groups such as healthcare, media and telecom, financial institutions, real estate and gaming. BAS also does a significant amount of work for Financial Sponsors, or private equity firms, often financing leveraged transactions. Following the strategy of Goldman Sachs, the firm lacks a standalone mergers and acquisitions department, instead employing mergers and acquisitions senior bankers throughout the industry coverage groups. The firm is registered as a broker/dealer with the SEC, is a member of the NYSE, and the NASD. The use of Banc in the BAS's name is indicative of the fact that the company is not a bank, and their deposits and other holdings are not insured by the FDIC.