Scott A. Ryles

Gemstone Solutions Group, Inc. engages in the designs, manufactures, and retails apparel and accessories for children. It offers products under the Gymboree, Gymboree Outlet, Janie and Jack, and Crazy 8 brands, as well as play programs for children under the Gymboree Play and Music brand, and women's clothing and accessories under the Shade brand. The company was founded in 1976 and is headquartered in Carson, NV.

Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. provided wealth management, securities trading and sales, corporate finance and investment banking services. Merrill Lynch was a global trader and underwriter of securities and derivatives across a range of asset classes and serve as a strategic advisor to governments, institutions and individuals worldwide. The company was founded in 1913 and was headquartered in Charlotte, NC.

Cowen & Co. LLC is a SEC-registered broker/dealer headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 2004 and is a subsidiary of Cowen Holdings, Inc., ultimately owned by The Toronto-Dominion Bank (TSE: TD) in Canada. Cowen & Co. offers industry-focused investment banking for growth-oriented companies, domain knowledge-driven research and a sales and trading platform for institutional investors. Their institutional sales and trading business serves both equity and fixed-income clients. Sales and trading execution platform is structured around the following key verticals: (1) healthcare (2) technology, telecommunications and media (TMT) (3) REITs and financials (4) aerospace and defense (5) consumer and (6) alternative energy.

Fortify Software, Inc. provides software security solutions. The company was founded by Arthur Do in 2003 and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA.

NorthStar Systems International, Inc. engaged in the provision of wealth management software solutions to financial services institutions. The firm's technology solutions included automate client-related activities for wealth management providers, including financial planning and proposal generation, investment policy statements and product catalogs, portfolio construction and monitoring, and compliance. The company was founded by Robert Lawrence Zangrillo and Robert G. Thunell in 2001 and was headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Cowen Group, Inc. provides investment banking for small to midsized companies in the alternative energy, consumer health care, media, technology, and telecommunications industries. It offers mergers and acquisitions advice, securities underwriting, equity offerings, private equity placements, and market-making. The company was founded in 1918 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Home Value Protection Inc. provides home insurance services. The company was founded by Eric Hutchinson, Daniel P. Sanford and Craig Schmeizer in 2009 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Headquartered in San Francisco, Epoch Partners, a subsidiary of Goldman Sachs & Co., is a technology-enabled investment bank focused on high-growth companies and electronically connected institutional and individual investors. The firm offers a full array of investment services. Their ultimate parent is Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE:GS).

ArcSight, Inc. use to provides security and compliance management solutions that identify and mitigate cyber threat and risk for businesses and government agencies. It use to offers compliance reporting, universal log management, data leak monitoring, breach detection and perimeter security intelligence. It was founded in 2000 and was headquartered in Cupertino, CA.