Robert B. Austrian

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.

ZVUE Corp. manufactures digital entertainment products as well as provides online video content. Its principal activities are designing, developing and marketing portable media players and deliver digital contents. It offers consumers easy to use mobile devices as well as access to a large and growing library of digital audio and video content. The company was founded on February 3, 2003 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA

Brown & Herbranson Imaging, Inc. engages in the provision of technological services. It develops and distributes educational software. The company was founded on November 4, 2002 and is headquartered in Fremont, CA.