William Craig Hunter

Japan Leisure Hotels Ltd. is a closed-ended company. It provides returns to investors by investing into the Japanese leisure hotel industry and through its investments. Its objective is to provide shareholders with an attractive yield by paying out all free cash flow from these cash generative assets. The company was founded on October 17, 2007 and is headquartered in St. Peter Port, Guernsey.

The Sharper Image Corp. retails appliances and consumer electronic devices. It engages in business-to-business wholesale operations, as well as owns and operates online auction Web site and an online outlet store to help manage refurbished and close-out inventory. The company was founded by Richard J. Thalheimer in 1977 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Hunter Financial, Inc. offers a comprehensive line of mortgage products including conventional, conforming, and non-conforming loans for purchases, refinances, home equity lines of credit and commercial loans. The company is headquartered in Post Falls, ID.

SBI Shinsei Bank Ltd. engages in the business of banking services. It operates through the following segments: Institutional Business, Global Market and Individual Business. The Institutional Business segment provides corporate and syndicated loans, acquisition finance, ship finance, healthcare finance, finance for startups, private equity, renewable energy finance, real estate non-recourse finance, project finance and rehabilitation finance services. The Global Market segment provides financial products and services for financial institutions, foreign exchange, derivatives, and other capital markets. The Individual Business segment provides unique products that are not offered by any other bank such as comprehensive accounts, home mortgages, investment trusts, unsecured personal loans, shopping credit cards and loans secured by real estate. The company was founded in December 1952 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.