Sagard Holdings

Scopia Capital LLC is a New York based firm that provides investment management with a long/short, value driven, market-neutral approach, as well as long only investment management to institutional investors. The company was founded in 2001 by Matt Sirovich and Jeremy Mindich. We believe that our investment style is unusual in that we combine fundamentally focused, deep due diligence and a concentrated portfolio of high conviction long and short positions with the discipline of market neutrality. As of November 30th 2010, Scopia had $1.6 billion in assets under management and an outstanding team of 24 employees. Our management company has been registered as an investment adviser with the Securities and Exchange Commission since 2003. For further information please contact (212 ) 370-0303 or email us at investors@scopiacapital.com.

New Mountain Capital manages private and public equity capital with aggregate assets under management totaling more than $8.5 billion. It is a generalist firm that pursues tradeoffs across the sectors of education, health care, logistics, business services, federal IT services, media, software, insurance, consumer products, financial services and technology, infrastructure and energy. In selecting sectors, New Mountain Capital focuses on defensive growth industries. Its portfolio companies include Strayer Education Inc., National Medical Health Card Systems Inc., Everbank Financial Corp, RedPrairie Holding Inc., among others. The firm's team includes around 48 professionals drawn from private equity, investment banking, institutional investor, accounting, consulting firms and leading corporations across the United States.