Force10 Networks (www.force10networks.com) Force10 Networks is the pioneer in resilient Gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet switching and routing. Founded in 1999, Force10 revolutionized networking with the E-Series switch/router—the first product to deliver true line rate 10 Gigabit Ethernet switching and routing. The Force10 E-Series switch/routers provide best-in-class resiliency, unmatched scalability and line rate performance in all deployment configurations. Based on a patented architecture that combines fully distributed hardware, and modular software, the E-series switch/router ensures predictable application performance, increases network availability and reduces operating costs.   Today, Force10 is a global company with offices throughout the US, as well as the UK, the Netherlands, Japan, China and Korea. Among Force10 customers are world leading financial institutions, manufacturing organizations, research networks, media companies, search engines, telecommunication carriers and supercomputer clusters. Clearent, LLC (www.clearent.com)   A St. Louis based credit card processor that utilizes a proprietary hive computing platform.  Clearent’s hive computing platform ensures redundancy, maintains itself, requires minimal staff intervention, and scales easily as volume increases.  Clearant has also developed a unique platform of both “Front-end” and “Back-end” technology, as well as merchant reporting mechanisms that is unheralded in the industry and in large demand.  We believe that Clearent’s computing platform represents among the most advanced technology available in the processing industry and is the lowest cost platform in the industry.  The company was formed in the summer of 2005 and after platform and product development, began to market its products and services to merchants in the third quarter 2007.  Clearent is the first and only payment processing company to design and build its technology from the ground up and around the objectives of total transparency and flexibility.  Clearent provides clarity with program and merchant level metrics that can be accessed live 24/7.  David Truetzel is a Board Member of Clearent. Circle Medical (www.circlemed.com) Circle is a growing, profitable, medical device engineering services and clinical device manufacturing company with competency across all engineering disciplines, including Class II and III medical mechanical, electronics, software and complex mechanism design, and manufacturing.  Circle Medical Devices, LLC (“Circle”) is based in silicon-valley (Los Gatos, CA). Circle’s commitment to providing customers with the highest quality engineering and problem solving capabilities has established the Company as the “go-to” engineering firm for difficult and high-priority products.  Circle serves a premier customer base including established major device firms as well as blue chip venture capital backed companies.   Circle has grown from six employees to over 70 employees in a period of four and a half years.  These professionals have extensive experience in bringing medical devices to market and have successfully completed over 200 projects.  Circle’s experienced and diverse engineering talent comes from top schools such as Stanford and UC Berkeley with PhD’s and Master’s in all the engineering disciplines. Circle has demonstrated very strong sales growth since its inception in 2004.  Each completed project enhances Circle’s reputation as it adds to its impressive list of accomplishments and increases its knowledge base.  Circle works only on a time and materials basis, which ensures its profitability on every job.   Bob Wetzel is a Board Member of Circle Medical. Texcel Medical, LLC (www.texcelmedical.com)   Texcel Medical, LLC (“Texcel”) is a leading contract medical device development, assembly and manufacturer located in Massachusetts.  Texcel was started 18 years ago, and on behalf of over 60 medical device clients, Texcel provides full medical device solutions including device design, development history file maintenance, quality (QA & QC), regulatory assistance, process validation, and general manufacturing, electronic testing, laser welding, and clean-room packaging for a wide range of product applications.  Some of Texcel’s clients include large multi-National medical device companies, as well as numberous emerging medical device companies.  Texcel has approximately 60 employees and is ISO 13485 and ISO 9001 certified.  Texcel is considered to be the leading contract medical device assembly and manufacturing company for emerging and established Neurostimulation and active implantable (e.g defribulators, artificial hearts, acoustic implants and gastric stimulation) medical device companies.  Texcel is rapidly growing.  Bob Wetzel is a Board Member of Texcel Medical. Paranet (www.paranet.com)   Paranet Solutions, LLC (“Paranet”) is an Information Technology (IT) services company to Fortune 1000 and upper middle market companies, based in Dallas, Texas and founded in 1991.  Today Paranet has over 200 employees with offices in the U.S. Europe and South America. Paranet provides virtualization and storage management; security, risk management and compliance; server optimization and consolidation; data center design, infrastructure consolidation and relocation; unified communications; application services; and on-demand staffing.  Paranet provides IT services for 57 clients, including many recognizable Fortune 500 companies.  Paranet is a leader in the RIM (Remote Information Management) space, by providing their proprietary Compass™ methodology to create fully connected, business-driven IT operating environments that are efficient, reliable and secure on behalf of their clients.    In 2008, Paranet made three acquisitions which broadened their service offering and added significant synergies which have resulted in a more competitive service offering in its marketplace.  The executive leadership of all three firms have known or previously worked with the CEO of Paranet, Alan Bratton. Alan is a seasoned executive with a history of success acquiring and assimilating IT Services companies for large private equity firms.  As an example, he was the CEO of Global DocuGraphix, a $130 million revenue portfolio company of Thoma Cressey Equity Partners.  David Truetzel is a Board member of Paranet.