N. Gary van Nest

Investment Grade Trust operates as closed-End Investment Fund/Investment Trust. The company was founded on January 28, 2003 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Energy Plus Income Trust is an investment company. The trust was founded on Sep 23, 2004 and is headquartered in Toronto, ON.

Financial Preferred Securities Corp. provides investors with exposure to portfolio of United States preferred securities of primarily financial services companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Its investment objectives are to provide investors with a stable stream of tax efficient quarterly dividends consisting of capital gains dividends and return of capital and to preserve net asset value. The company was founded on September 25, 2006 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Teilhard Technologies, Inc. provides software solutions. The private company is based in Calgary, Canada. and has subsidiaries in Canada. The CEO of the Canadian company is John K. Brown.

Part of iA Financial Corp., Inc., Canadian Venture Capital Management Corp. is a private equity firm. The private company is based in Vancouver, Canada. Canadian Venture Capital Management was acquired by Impax Capital Corp. from Lumira Capital Investment Management, Inc. on January 26, 2006.

Crown Hill Capital Corp. is a mutual fund manager located in Toronto, Ontario. They manage two ETF funds that trade on the Toronto Stock Exchange: the Investment Grade Trust (BND.UN) and the Crown Hill Fund (MYT.UN) The Crown Hill Fund is the continuing fund from the merger of the following funds: the Crown Hill Dividend Fund (PBK.UN), the MACCs Sustainable Yield Trust (MYT.UN) and the Fairway Diversified Income and Growth Trust (FDT.UN). The firm offers investment strategies for total return investors and tax sensitive investors. Most of their total return investors are defined benefit and defined contribution plans, endowments or foundations. Crown Hill's tax sensitive investors include insurance companies, corporations and high net-worth individuals) or multi-jurisdictional investors that are located in a tax exempt jurisdiction but invest globally.

Hospice Calgary operates Sage Centre for counselling and education and Rosedale Hospice for residential end-of-life care. It provides services that guide children, teens, adults and families through the grieving process who face life-threatening illness and the death of a loved one. The company is headquartered in Calgary, Canada.

Salumatics, Inc. provides health information services to health care providers, governments, suppliers, and other health care stakeholders in North America. Its services include document conversion & records scanning, saluvision edms, medical coding & abstracting, data hosting & business continuity. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Mississauga, Canada.

Pathfinder Capital, Inc. operates as an investment management firm specializes in disruptive technologies and frontier markets. The company is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Eldorado Nuclear Ltd. engages in uranium mining.

Citadel Income Fund operates as a closed-end investment fund. Its investment objective is to provide unit holders with a stable stream of monthly distributions; and to preserve and potentially enhance the net asset value of the fund. The company was founded on January 28, 2005 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Energy Income Fund is a closed-end investment trust. Its investment objective is to provide unitholders with monthly cash distributions and achieve a total return on the portfolio that is greater than the total return provided by the benchmark index, as selected by the manager from time to time. The company was founded on August 29, 2005 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Woodland Biofuels, Inc. develops a process technology to produce cellulosic ethanol from renewable biomass. It builds, owns, and operates cellulosic ethanol plants. Its technology eliminates the use of food to make ethanol by converting biomass, such as wood and crop waste into ethanol or other products. The company was founded by Antony G. Moran n 2000 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.