Ted Waitman

Compass Diversified Holdings, a traded fund in New York Stock Exchange, seeks investment opportunities in small and middle-market companies located in North America with an enterprise value of USD 10-100 million and an annual EBITDA of at least USD 20 million. The fund targets companies operating in industrial and branded consumer sectors. It provides financing for acquisitions, buyouts, and later-stage capital requirements with transaction size ranging from USD 200-800 million utilizing debt and equity. It takes controlling interests and makes investments in public companies.

Compass Group Diversified Holdings LLC acquires and manages a group of small and middle market businesses. It acquires controlling interests in and actively manages businesses that operate in industries with long-term macroeconomic growth opportunities; have positive and stable cash flows; face minimal threats of technological or competitive obsolescence and; have management teams largely in place. The company was founded on November 18, 2005 and is headquartered in Westport, CT.

California Pellet Mill Co. manufactures processing machinery products. Its products include pellet mills, conditioning systems, coolers, expanders, feed cleaning systems, and pellet dies. The company provides services to the processing, food, pharmaceutical, and chemical industries. California Pellet Mill was founded in 1883 and is located in Crawford, IN

Consolidated Process Machinery, Inc. supplies process equipment used for oilseed processing and animal feed production. Its mills are ideal for producing pellets for full line feeds, wood, single ingredients, coal, poultry feed, hog feed, paper, corn wet milling or any of the thousands of products their customers pellet. The company was founded in 1883 and is headquartered in Waterloo, IA.

CPM Wolverine Proctor LLC designs and manufactures processing equipment. The firm engages in the design and manufacture of processing equipment for the food, chemical, tobacco, textile and web processing industries. The company is headquartered in Lexington, NC.

CPM Acquisition Corp. supplies primary processing equipment in the plastics, human food, and rubber, animal feed, oilseed, and biofuels industries. Its products include parts, extruders, systems, auxiliary and controls. The company is headquartered in Traverse City, MI.

CPM Holdings, Inc. supplies equipment to the animal feed and oilseed processing industries. It offers flaking mills, hammer mills, pellet mills, roller mills and roll crushers, cracking mills, pellet crumbles, conditioners, coolers, feeders and ancillary products, and steam chambers. The firm also serves the bioenergy, food, compounding, and consumer industries. The company was founded in 1883 and is headquartered in Waterloo, IA.

Crown Iron Works Co engages in oilseed extraction. It offers preparation, corn fractionation, extraction, specialty extraction, drying, refining, biodiesel, and oleochemical technologies; and spare and replacement parts for vegetable. The company was founded in 1878 and is headquartered in Roseville, MN.