Tom A. Thornhill

Mendocino Wine Group LLC produces wine. It operates in mendocino county, california, mendocino wine owns the parducci wine cellars winery. The company was founded by Thomas Thornhill III, Tim Thornhill Jr. and Tommy Thornhill Jr. in 2004 and is headquartered in Ukiah, CA.

UBS Securities LLC is an investment bank and registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1998 as UBS Warburg LLC. They are a subsidiary of UBS Americas Holding LLC, ultimately held by UBS Group AG (SWX: UBSG, NYSE: UBS) in Switzerland. UBS Securities is a primary dealer in US Government securities and provides a full range of investment banking services which includes corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, trading and sales, fixed-income, equity research, private banking, underwriting and prime brokerage operations. The firm also provides advisory services and access to capital markets for corporate, institutional, intermediary and alternative asset management clients.

Part of Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc., Lehman Brothers Canada, Inc. is a Canadian company.

Nor1, Inc. provides revenue enhancing software solutions for the hotel, cruise line, and airline industries. It offers solutions for pricing and merchandising, guest satisfaction, customer anticipation, and front desk solutions. Its solutions include eStandby upgrade, a pre-arrival upsell solution, eReach and customer merchandising platform. The company was founded by Arthur L. Norins and Jason Bryant in 2004 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Vinum Capital Management LLC(Vinum Capital Management) is a venture private equity firm founded in 2007. The firm is headquartered in California.

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.