Stephen Cyrus Freidheim

Cyrus Capital Partners LP (Cyrus Capital) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in New York City. The firm is the successor to OZF Management LP (also known as Och-Ziff Freidham), which Stephen C. Freidheim, Daniel Och and the Ziff family founded in 1999. Cyrus Capital provides investment advisory services to pooled and single-investor investment vehicles, which are private investment funds.

Founded in 2010 by Stephen Freidheim and Matthew Taylor, Kortright Capital Partners LP is a hedge fund manager located in New York City. The firm is affiliated with Cyrus Capital Partners LP.

Bankers Trust Co. is an asset management headquartered in Des Moines, Iowa. The firm was founded in 1917 and is a subsidiary of BTC Financial Corp. The firm serves as a trusted partner for individuals’ comprehensive financial planning, trust and fiduciary needs.

Nomura Corporate Research & Asset Management, Inc. (NCRAM) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded in 1991 as a subsidiary of Nomura Holding America, Inc., itself a subsidiary of Nomura Holding, Inc. (TYO: 8604, NYSE: NMR) in Japan. NCRAM provides both discretionary and non-discretionary investment management services to institutional investors in the US and globally.

Kidder, Peabody & Co., Inc. provides security brokerage services. The private company is based in Buffalo, NY and has subsidiaries in Switzerland. The company was founded by Thomas W. Ostrander.

Virgin America, Inc. engages in the provision of scheduled air transportation services. The firm also offers a low-cost travel structure through point-to-point network and high utilization of single fleet type consisting of Airbus A320-family aircraft. The company was founded by Richard Charles Nicholas Branson on January 26, 2004 and is headquartered in Burlingame, CA.

Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics operates as a research institution which engages in an international economic policy. The company is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Council on Foreign Relations, Inc. provides and disseminates ideas on foreign policies to individuals, corporate members, journalists and policy makers. It operates a forum for government officials, students and other interested parties to study and discuss world issues and impact on American foreign policies. The company publishes Foreign Affairs, a magazine that comes out six times a year, along with books and studies by its own scholars. Council on Foreign Relations was founded in 1921 and is headquartered in New York City, NY.