Ihab Joseph Massoud

Petroleum Heat & Power Co., Inc. distributes petroleum and natural gas to homes. The firm offers propane, emergency weather, pricing, natural gas, boiler and furnace repair, and plumbing services. The company was founded by M. A. Fessler in 1903 and is headquartered in Stamford, CT.

Seapeak LLC engages in the provision of marine transportation services for liquefied natural gas, liquefied petroleum gas, and crude oil. It operates through the LNG and NGL segments. The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

Patriot Capital Funding, Inc., a fund listed on NASDAQ, seeks investment opportunities in small and mid-sized companies located in the US. The fund's investment criteria includes: revenues of $10 to $100 million p.a., EBITDA of $2,000,000, proven management teams, significant & defensible market share in niche industries, historical financial performance and low technological and/or product obsolescence risk. It invests in companies operating across a broad range of sectors such as, manufacturers, distributors and service. It provides financing in the form of junior & senior secured loans, subordinated debt, one-stop financing and equity investments. Its debt investment size ranges from $3 to $20 million and equity co-investments up to $2 million.

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.

McKinsey & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It specializes in design, marketing and sales, analytics, operations, transformation and restructuring, risk, strategy and corporate finance, and sustainability and resource productivity. The company was founded by James O. McKinsey in 1926 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Colony Capital LLC (Colony Capital) is a private equity firm founded in 1991 by Thomas Barrack. The firms headquarters is at Santa Monica, California with additional offices in New York, Boston, Dallas, Atlanta, London, Paris, Luxembourg, Madrid, Rome, Berlin, Beirut, Hong Kong, and Seoul.

Compass Group Management LLC (Compass Group Mgmt) is a private equity subsidiary of The Compass Group International LLC founded in 1998 by Alan B. Offenberg and Elias J. Sabo. The firm is headquartered in Westport, Connecticut with an additional office in Irvine, California.