Investment Partners

American Capital (Nasdaq:ACAS), with $17 billion in capital resources under management, is a publicly traded private equity firm and global asset manager.

Chilmark Partners is an investment banking firm that specializes in reorganizing troubled companies. They have done this for more than 20 years on behalf of clients and as principal investors.

Hancock Capital Management provides junior capital to support the business objectives of experienced management teams and shareholders. Their sources of capital are John Hancock Life Insurance Company and its affiliates and certain client accounts, including their mezzanine funds.

J.P. Morgan Partners ("JPMP") is a private equity division of JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM), one of the largest financial institutions in the United States. JPMP has invested over $15 billion worldwide in consumer, media, energy, industrial, financial services, healthcare and technology companies since its inception in 1984.

As of August 1, 2006, the senior professionals of JPMP have formed new entities independent of JPMorgan Chase & Co. As was announced in March 2005, the buyout and growth equity professionals of JPMP have formed a new independent firm, CCMP Capital Advisors, LLC ("CCMP Capital").

Over 25 years, Onex has completed more than 220 acquisitions and generated a 29 percent compound annual return on invested capital.

PNC Equity Partners was founded in 1982 as the private equity affiliate of PNC Financial Services Group, one of the largest banking and financial services companies in the United States. PNC Equity Partners has invested nearly $1 billion in over 100 companies since then with a long track record of successful results.

Prairie Capital typically invests in privately held US-based companies with annual cash flows of $3 million or more and recurring annual revenues in excess of $15 million. Prairie Capital investments include management and leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations and external growth situations.

Trimaran Fund Management is a middle market private equity firm. Trimaran typically invests $25 to $100 million of equity in transactions ranging in value from under $100 million to $1 billion. They are experienced investors. Since 1995, they have invested $1.6 billion of equity in fifty-nine portfolio companies in transactions totaling in excess of $10 billion.