Investors

The Quick Family

We are proud to have the support of the Quick family, of Quick & Reilly fame. Quick & Reilly was the first NYSE member firm to offer discounted stock trading commissions to retail clients after market deregulation in 1975.

Battery Ventures

Founded in 1983, Battery Ventures is a venture capital and private equity firm focused on investing in technology-driven companies at all stages of growth, from seed to later stages and tech buyouts. Battery leverages its people, expertise and capital to actively guide companies to category dominance. The firm has invested in a number of successful financial technology and services firms, including: Fingerhut, HNC [Nasdaq: HNCS], Corillian [Nasdaq: CORI], The London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange (LIFFE), which merged with Euronext, MRU Holdings/My Rich Uncle, and PrimeRevenue. From its main offices in Wellesley, MA, Menlo, CA and from other locations around the globe, the partnership manages over $2 billion in committed capital. For more information, visit www.battery.com.

OCA Ventures

OCA Ventures is backed by the entrepreneurs who founded and built O'Connor & Associates, the Chicago-based derivatives trading firm that pioneered standardized option trading in 1977 and was later acquired by Swiss Bank (subsequently UBS).

OCA Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on investments in companies with dramatic growth potential, primarily in technology, financial services, for-profit education and business services. OCA Ventures believes that venture capital investing is successful when a strong partnership is forged with the entrepreneurs in which it invests. This active partnership approach is how OCA Ventures manages financial and operational risk. Based in Chicago, OCA Ventures has investments throughout the United States.

Milestone Merchant Partners

Milestone's core focus is providing investment banking services and capital to institutions and companies within the financial services sector. Milestone's partners and professionals have particular expertise in working with banks and thrifts, commercial, consumer, and mortgage finance companies, insurance and re-insurance companies and asset managers.

Milestone has been the #1 M&A Advisor to the specialty finance industry for the years 2004 through 2008 based on the cumulative number of transactions announced during that period. (Source: SNL Financial LC.)

Bruce V. Rauner

A Principal at the Chicago private equity firm GTCR, Mr. Rauner serves as a director of various companies including CAK Music Holdings, Heritage Golf Group, Park City Solutions, The Coinmach Corporation, Risk Management Alternatives, Transaction Network Services, Cardinal Logistics Management, Skylight Financial, TransFirst Holdings, Accretive Solutions, and netASPx.