Yee-Ping Chu

Bison Capital Asset Management LLC (Bison Capital) is a private equity firm founded in 2001 by Douglas Trussler. The firm is headquartered in Santa Monica, California.

Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc. engages in the provision of securities underwriting and investment services. The company is headquartered in New York, NY.

Midwestern BioAG, Inc. provides agricultural consulting services. It manufactures fertilizers, livestock nutrition, seeds, specialty crops, and organic agricultural products. The firm offers a range of fertilizer blends, dry and liquid fertilizers, and soil amendments; livestock nutrition products, including free-choice minerals and feed inoculants for lactating cows, dry and pre-fresh cows, and calves and heifers; a range of mineral products for berry, orchard, potato, and other fruit and vegetable crop programs; and a range of organic fertilizers and soil amendments for organic agriculture. The company was founded by Gary Zimmer in 1983 and is headquartered in Blue Mounds, WI.

Metagenics, Inc. provides nutritional supplements, medical foods and nutraceuticals for health care professionals. The company was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in San Clemente, CA.

TCW Asset Management Co. LLC (TCW) is a SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Los Angeles, California. The firm was founded in 1992 and is wholly-owned by The TCW Group, Inc. In 2013, TCW management and private investment funds affiliated with The Carlyle Group (NASDAQ: CG) acquired TCW Group from Société Générale. TCW provides investment management and advice for a wide array of investment strategies for institutional and individual investors through investment advisory accounts, private open- and closed-end commingled investment funds and structured investment vehicles such as collateralized debt obligations.

Credit Suisse First Boston LLC provides global investment banking services in the United States. It provides private banking and financial advisory services and banking products. Its businesses include securities underwriting, sales & trading, investment banking, private equity, alternative assets, financial advisory services, investment research and asset management. It is headquartered in New York, NY.