The Americas

Blackstone - USA
The Blackstone Group is a leading global alternative asset manager and provider of financial advisory services. With assets under management of approximately $88.4 billion, its focus is on corporate private equity funds, real estate opportunity funds and Marketable Alternative Asset Management funds.

Citigroup - USA
A major financial services company formed from the merger of Citicorp and Travelers Group in 1998. It is the world’s largest company, with total assets of nearly US $1.9 trillion. Citigroup is organised into three major business groups - Global Consumer, Corporate and Investment Banking, and Global Wealth Management - in addition to one stand-alone business, Citigroup Alternative Investments. The company employs around 300,000 staff over the world, and holds over 200 million customer accounts in more than 100 countries.

EnGene - Canada
Engene is a private biotechnology company based in Vancouver, Canada. The company’s novel approach is to manufacture and deliver therapeutic proteins either into the bloodstream or to specific diseased gut tissues. The company offers significant advances in its field utilising cutting edge technologies.

Fortress Investment Group - USA
A leading global alternative asset manager headquartered in New York, with offices around the globe, and over $30 billion in assets under management. The company raises, invests and manages private equity funds, hedge funds and publicly traded alternative investment vehicles. Fortress intends to grow its existing businesses, while continuing to create innovative products to meet the increasing demand by sophisticated investors for superior risk-adjusted investment returns.

Palmchip - USA
Founded in 1996, Palmchip Corporation is a privately held, venture funded company headquartered in Silicon Valley, California, USA, with three offshore locations. Palmchip has a history of providing superior solutions to its clients in the areas of application development, maintenance and migration, through a unique blend of deep domain knowledge, pervasive experience in the field and devotion to facilitate clients’ achievement of their business objectives. Palmchip also offers key network security solutions to ensure safe electronic transactions and relations.

SteelBox Networks - USA
Founded in 2003 by senior executives and technical members from Cisco Systems, Scientific Atlanta and Nortel Networks to develop real time video switching, recording and access systems for the video security industry. Its unique embedded technology solves the problem of maintaining high performance surveillance video availability, regardless of network size and situational awareness conditions.

Uruguay Mineral Exploration – Uruguay
An integrated gold production and exploration company which has been operating in Uruguay since 1996 and leading mineral exploration in Uruguay with a first-class exploration portfolio, covering gold, base metals and diamond prospects. Its Minas de Corrales gold operation produce at a rate of approximately 100,000 ounces per annum. The company has a significant potential to increase near mine gold resources and develop other gold operations in Uruguay.

Europe

3i Infrastructure – UK
A world leader in private equity and venture capital. Over its 60 years, 3i has achieved over 170 IPOs in the last ten years and over 450 trade sales in the last five years alone. Currently, the company has €10.4 billion total funds under management.

BDI Mining Corp  - UK
BDI Mining Corp is engaged in management and operation of diamond mining, and the exploration of gold deposits. The company has a 100%-owned, advanced gold exploration project at Woodlark Island, Papua New Guinea as well as an 80%-owned Cempaka alluvial gem diamond mine in Indonesia.

Berkeley Group Holdings plc - UK
A leading house building group established in 1976, the Berkeley Group is the parent company of some of the UK’s leading development brands. The creation of new communities through the development of land is the core business of the Group. Currently, The Berkeley Group is a leader in the business of urban regeneration

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Biocare Solutions - UK
An innovative producer committed to developing, manufacturing and selling totally natural and totally effective products that perform as well as or better than chemical alternatives. The company’s portfolio of products includes specialist applications for the industrial, agricultural and aquaculture market sectors and is currently developing and expanding to household cleaning and laundry products.

Bioco - UK
Formerly Blood Analysis, Bioco developed the Bac-detect machine for analyzing bacteria levels in blood plasma and platelets. It is also developing various generic tests for use by the food industry.

BNP Paribas - France
Formed in 2000 following the merger of Banque National de Paris and Paribas, BNP Paribas is one of the largest international banking networks. With activities that encompass retail banking, asset management and corporate and investment banking, the company operates in over 85 countries, with a particularly strong presence in Asia and the United States. It was recently ranked the largest bank in the Eurozone by total assets and second largest by market capitalisation.

ClearSpeed Technology  - UK
The world leader in acceleration technology for high performance computing (HPC) applications. It is a semiconductor company that develops massively parallel coprocessors and accelerator boards. The company is engaged in the research, design and development of semiconductor processors and Advance Boards.

Cognisco - UK
Founded in 1998 with the primary focus on giving companies access to vital but previously unattainable workplace data and objective measurements of employees’ understanding. The company helps its clients reduce risk, reduce training costs and increase operational performance. Cognisco is driven by a company culture that promotes continual improvement and high production values.

Eatonfield Group - UK
A commercial and residential property developer,  engaged in property development, property investment, land acquisition and associated related businesses. The Group has expanded rapidly to become a successful regional property developer, as demonstrated by its track record of commercial and residential developments and its growing land bank. 

HSBC - UK
The HSBC Group is one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world, with well established businesses in Europe, the Asia-Pacific region, the Americas, the Middle East and Africa. HSBC Holdings plc is incorporated in England, with its head office in London.

Imagination Technologies - UK
Imagination Technologies develops and licenses innovative silicon and software intellectual property (IP) for system-on-chip (SoC) devices targeting multimedia and communication applications. The company offers an expanding range of complementary IP cores, licenced by many of the world’s leading silicon device suppliers including Intel, Renesas, Samsung, Sharp and TI.

Petra Diamonds - Jersey
A diamond mining group focused on the exploration, mining and beneficiation of diamonds in Africa. It is the largest producer by volume and employees in its sector following De Beers. The company’s mining operations involves the extraction and sale of rough diamonds from mining operations in South Africa. Its exploration operations are carried out in Angola, Botswana, Sierra Leone and South Africa.

Prosurgics - UK
Founded in 1996 and previously known as Armstrong healthcare.  The company is focused on the specific area of surgical robotics where it developed a portfolio of technologies and products. Armstrong changed its name to Prosurgics in September 2006 to reflect the positive evolution of the company as it augmented its strong technological foundations to become a truly customer focused and commercially led business.

Proton Power Systems - UK
A specialised company in delivering a hybrid electric fuel cell system. The company has developed and produced a standard fuel cell module to provide original equipment manufactures (OEMs) with a complete fuel system.

ReNeuron Group - UK
A leading adult stem cell therapy business founded in 1997. ReNeuron is applying its novel stem cell platform technologies in the development of ground-breaking stem cell therapies to serve significant and unmet or poorly-met clinical needs. The company is focused on therapy for neurodegenarative and other diseases.

Resolution - UK
A large specialist manager of life funds with an estimated seven million customers and combined life company with invested assets of over £63 billion. The company was formed in 2005 from the merger of Resolution Life Group Limited and Britannic Group plc. Resolution plc comprises three segments: life division, asset management and management services.

Syndicate Asset Management plc – UK
An alternative investment market (AIM)-quoted specialist fund management group. The Group’s principal activity is providing wealth management services to a diverse range of private clients, trusts and small institutions with approximately £2.5 billion funds under management. It is established to create a dynamic new fund management group by taking advantage of opportunities presented by the wave of consolidation in the fund management industry.

Australia & Asia Pacific

Bank of China – China
Founded in 1912 to replace the Ta Ching Government Bank, it is the oldest bank in China. Initially it functioned as the Chinese Central Bank until in 1928,  and then became a purely commercial bank. Bank of China is the second largest lender in China overall, and the 8th largest bank in the world by market capitalization value. Traditional commercial banking constitutes the majority of the bank’s business, which is composed of corporate banking, retail banking and banking with financial institutions.

China Communication and Construction Company Limited – China
A multinational company which owns 37 solely-invested and share-holding subsidiary companies and 19 joint stock companies. It is the largest port construction and design company in China, the leading force in road, bridge construction and design, the largest dredging company in China and third largest in the world. CCCC is also the world’s largest container crane manufacturer.

Industrial and Commercial Bank of China – China
A leading financial player in China with an outstanding customer base and multi-dimension business structure. It boasts core competence in innovation, market competitiveness and premier brand value. ICBC offers a range of banking and financial services, including various types of deposits and loans, trade finance, remittance, settlement, commercial and industrial finance, syndicated loans, inward and outward bills of exchange, China business advisory and financial services, securities business and bullion brokerage services, as well as insurance agency services.

Sunshine Gas - Australia
Sunshine Gas Limited is an Australia-based oil and gas exploration and production company. The company’s principal activity is exploring for, developing and producing conventional and coal seam gas. Sunshine Gas is exploring for coal seam gas in the Bowen and Surat Basins in Queensland. It has exploration activities underway and planned across an area of greater than 35,000 kilometers in central Queensland, Australia, as well as the United Kingdom.

Sydney Gas – Australia
An Australian energy company focused on the production of coal seam gas and natural gas, from the vast coal deposits contained within the Sydney Basin. Sydney Gas is the first commercial producer of natural gas in New South Wales. The company has a disciplined corporate strategy focused on the application of innovative, proven and cost-effective techniques.

WestSide Corporation – Australia
Established to participate in the development of coal seam gas projects in north eastern Australia, to address the growing market for energy on the eastern seaboard of Australia and to take advantages of opportunities for downstream integration into the ammonia industry.  Through its five wholly owned subsidiaries, the company focuses on developing commercial gas production from precincts where gas has been demonstrated to be in place rather than to operate as a pure exploration company.

The Gulf

Ahli United Bank – Bahrain
A fully fledged commercial and investment banking group providing wealth management, retail, corporate, treasury, offshore and private banking services. The Group’s businesses consist of the operations in Bahrain, a wholly owned subsidiary in the UK and subsidiaries in Kuwait and Qatar. AUB is the second largest listed company on the Bahrain stock exchange.

Banque Saudi Fransi – Saudi Arabia
Established in 1977, the bank is affiliated with Calyon that holds an equity interest of 31.1%. Calyon is a fully-fledged member of the Crédit Agricole Group. BSF is a full service commercial bank serving the local and international banking needs of its clients. It is a leading provider of comprehensive financial services and products in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and other markets.

Global Investment House - Kuwait
A leading investment house that plays an important role in promoting investment opportunities in the Arabian Gulf Peninsula to international investors through expert financial engineering. It also provides investors with a diverse scope of international and national investment opportunities, and facilitates those investments by providing clients with services that target their individual needs.

Samba Financial Group – Saudi Arabia
Established on 1980, Samba is the second largest bank in terms of assets and market capitalisation in the GCC region. Samba has a solid franchise and strong brand recognition. It is a diversified institution, active in offering a wide range of commercial, corporate and investment banking products and services. Samba is an important player in trade finance, cash management, loan syndication, and project finance. It has won countless awards for its innovative solutions and outstanding performance.

Saudi Basic Industries Corporation – Saudi Arabia
SABIC is a diversified manufacturing company, active in chemicals and intermediates, industrial polymers, fertilisers and metals. It is the largest listed company in Saudi Arabia and the largest worldwide in its industry. The Saudi government owns 70% of its shares. SABIC has interests in 17 affiliated companies which range from full ownership to significant partial participation. SABIC is the second largest global ethylene glycol producer, the third largest polyethylene manufacturer, the fourth largest polyolefins manufacturer and the sixth largest polypropylene manufacturer in the world.

Saudi Investment Bank – Saudi Arabia
A full service wholesale commercial bank, established in 1976, specializing in financing the requirements of sophisticated private sector companies. The shareholders of the bank include J. P. Morgan Chase and Mizuho Corporate Bank - formerly The Industrial Bank of Japan.

Saudi Telecom Company – Saudi Arabia
One of the largest telecom players in the Middle East with unparalleled presence in the Saudi market. STC provides a wide range of services from land phone, mobile telecom to internet and data services. The company is seriously seeking expansion in various under-penetrated markets in the region.

Tamweel - UAE
Tamweel has over 235 partners and is focused on becoming the leader in home financing regionally. Tamweel currently has branches in Dubai, Sharjah and Abu Dhabi and it aims to be the most admired leader amongst finance companies in the UAE.

The National Commercial Bank – Saudi Arabia
The largest bank in Saudi Arabia and the Arab region in terms of assets, equity and deposits. The bank was the first to be established in Saudi Arabia in 1953, and in 1999 the government acquired a majority stake of NCB. The bank is active in commercial, retail and private banking and has a solid market share in the branch network.