Marsh & McLennan Agency LLC

The PA Consulting Group is an independent, employee-owned, global firm of more than 3,000 individuals. It operates from offices in Europe, North America, Latin America and Asia, and serves the defense, energy, government, health care, manufacturing, retail, transportation and financial industries. The firm specializes in providing strategic management, information technology, operational improvement and complex programmed delivery services. The PA Consulting Group s information technology consulting services include management, infrastructure, sourcing, integration and package solutions. The firm s market analytics team works with clients to clarify their research objectives, develops and executes a research plan, and analyzes, interprets and manages the data to help them make effective business decisions. The PA Consulting Group maintains one of its offices in New York City.

Established in 1857, the Barnes Group consists of three businesses. Barnes Distribution is an international full-service distributor of maintenance, repair and operating supplies. Barnes Distribution offers more than 50,000 regularly stocked products to a diverse customer base in North America, Europe and Asia through a sales force of more than 1,500 professionals. Associated Spring is one of the world s largest manufacturers of precision mechanical and nitrogen gas springs and is a worldwide supplier of retaining rings and injection-molded plastic components that are used in a variety of original equipment manufacturer applications. Barnes Aerospace produces precision machined and fabricated components and assemblies for OEMs of turbine engines and airframes for commercial, military and business aircraft, as well as land-based industrial gas turbines. The Barnes Group is headquartered in Bristol, Conn.