Laura B. Smith

Plum Creek Timber Co., Inc. is a timberland owner in the United States of America. It involves in the harvesting of trees, selling the timberland and converting trees into lumber, plywood and other wood products. It operates through following business segments: Northern Resources, Southern Resources, The Real Estate, Manufacturing, and Energy and Natural Resources. The Northern Resources segment consists of timberlands in Maine, Michigan, Montana, New Hampshire, Oregon, Vermont, Washington, West Virginia and Wisconsin. The Southern Resources segment consists of timberlands in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas and Virginia. It sells primarily softwood saw logs and pulpwood. The Real Estate segment comprises sales of higher timberlands and sales of non-strategic timberlands. The Manufacturing segment consists of two lumber mills, two plywood mills, and two medium density fiberboard facilities in Montana and one lumber remanufacturing facility in Idaho. The Energy and Natural Resources segment includes its natural resource businesses that focus on opportunities for oil and natural gas production, construction aggregates and mineral extraction, wind power and communication. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (GS&Co.) is a securities brokerage firm headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1927, the firm is a subsidiary of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS). GS&Co. provides services to help hedge funds manage risk, monitor portfolios, maintain liquidity and build their businesses. They offer clients access to global equity and derivatives markets, as well as foreign exchange, commodities, European Lefts, rates and credit across the Americas, Europe and Asia. The firm proactively monitors capital markets, searching for pockets of liquidity and news that may require changes to those strategies. Integration with the Goldman Sachs network gives clients access to the firm's sectored block trades and their insights into price discovery. Their electronic trading program provides clients with tools to manage their trades from pre-trade analytics to post-trade analysis.