Richard McGuire

Borders Group, Inc. owns and operates bookstores and music stores. It operates through its subsidiaries, Borders, Inc. and Walden Book Company, Inc., which operates stores selling books, music and movie superstores and mall-based bookstores. The company operates a proprietary e-commerce Web site www.borders.com. The company was founded in 1933 and is headquartered in Ann Arbor, MI.

Alphameric Plc designs, develops and implements multi-channel, enterprise and hospitality services. The company also operates bookmaking marketplace, providing flexible bet settling systems, high resolution LCD, TV displays and specialists in providing turn key business solutions for all bookmaking market sectors. In addition, the company also provides maintenance and installation services with a widespread engineering force offering coverage to a variety of sectors, including bookmaking, banks and hospices. Alphameric is headquartered in Guildford, the United Kingdom.

Founded in 2010 by Mick McGuire, Marcato Capital Management LP is a registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager located in San Francisco, California. The firm provides investment management services to private pooled investment vehicles that are offered to investors on a private placement basis. The investment vehicles are structured as US limited partnerships and non-US corporations.

Founded in 2004, J. H. Whitney Investment Management LLC is a hedge fund manager located in New York City

Founded in 1994, Stonington Partners, Inc. is a private equity firm located in New York City with an additional office in Clayton, Missouri.

Borders, Inc. provides online retail of books. The company is headquartered in Ann Arbor, MI.

Founded in 2003 by William Ackman and David Berkowitz, Pershing Square Capital Management LP is a hedge fund manager located in New York City. The firm provides investment advisory services to a variety of private investment funds. Investors in the funds may include high net worth individuals, pension funds and profit sharing plans, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, corporations, business entities, endowments and foreign sovereign wealth funds.