Robert P. Bennett

GroundSwell Resources, Inc. is an alternative investment manager. The private company is based in Park City, UT and has subsidiaries in the United States. The company was founded by Robert P. Bennett.

San Diego-based Harlingwood Equity partners is a private equity subsidiary of FleetBoston Financial Corp., itself a subsidiary of Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC)

Part of Prudential Financial, Inc., Prudential Securities Corp. is a company based in Raleigh, NC.

Part of Nokia Oyj, Kenan Systems Corp makes software for billing, order processing, and customer analysis. The company is based in Cambridge, MA. The company was founded by Kenan E. Sahin. Kenan Systems was acquired by Lucent Technologies, Inc. on March 01, 1999 for $1,308.13 million.

Bain & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It offers advisory services to the companies on their critical issues and opportunities: strategy, marketing, organization, operations, technology and mergers and acquisitions, across all industries and geographies. The company was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

In 1915 Charles Edward Merrill founded Merrill Lynch & Co. (NYSE: MER) with Edmund C. Lynch in Baltimore, Maryland. The modern Merrill Lynch was formed in 1940 through mergers with E.A. Pierce & Cassatt and, soon after, Fenner & Beane. In 1973, Merrill Lynch adopted a holding company format, with Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. as the parent and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith as the operating subsidiary. Merrill Lynch Asset Management, Inc. (MLAM) was created as an integral business unit in the Merrill Lynch family in 1976. Fund Asset Management, doing business as Mercury Asset Management, was acquired in December 1997. In 2000, MLAM and Mercury were combined under the name Merrill Lynch Investment Managers. MLAM manages the Merrill Lynch family of mutual funds, as and acts as sub-advisor to other mutual funds.

Founded in 2004, BancBoston Capital, Inc. is a private equity/venture capital firm located in Boston, Massachusetts. They are a subsidiary of Bank of America NA and their ultimate parent is Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC).