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Roark Capital Group is an Atlanta-based private equity firm whose primary focus is organizations headquartered in the Southeast, and franchise, financial services and niche manufacturing businesses located throughout the United States. The firm specializes in companies with growth prospects and revenues between $20 million to $500 million. The group considers investments in a number of industries with a particular focus on multi-unit distribution companies, consumer brands, packaging and service industries. The company s role is to assist management in a variety of ways, including leveraging its relationships with third party advisors, lenders and strategic partners; setting equity and incentive driven compensation plans; enhancing strategic planning processes; assisting in the sale of under utilized assets; upgrading and enhancing technology; introducing new sales and marketing initiatives; identifying and financing add-on acquisitions; and developing and implementing exit strategies for the business. Roark Capital Group is named after Howard Roark, the main character in Ayn Rand s The Fountainhead .

Founded in 2000, Total Technology Ventures is a venture capital firm that provides capital services to privately held companies in the financial services industry and information technology-driven businesses with products that serve the financial services industry. The company partners with various organizations, such as Synovus Financial Corporation, TSYS and CheckFree Corporation. Total Technology Ventures offers financial services software and infrastructure solutions. It provides authentication, cash and asset management and investment technology services. Total Technology Ventures provides equity finance services to companies with technology solutions that enable financial institutions to operate efficiently, grow their revenue base and expand their product offerings.

Southern Company is a regional energy company with more than 40,000 megawatts of electric generating capacity in the Southeast. It is one of the largest producers of electricity in the United States. The company supplies energy to a 120,000-square-mile service territory throughout most of Georgia and Alabama, southeastern Mississippi and the panhandle region of Florida. It is ranked in the top 200 in the FORTUNE 500 listing of the largest United States corporations. Southern Company owns five regulated retail electric utilities: Alabama Power, Georgia Power, Gulf Power, Mississippi Power and Savannah Electric. It also owns Southern Nuclear and Southern Company Gas. David M. Ratcliffe has been the chief executive officer of Southern Company for more than two years. He has been with the utility company for over 35 years. Ratcliffe attended Valdosta State University. The company trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol SO. It is headquartered in Atlanta.