Telan Holdings

GAMCO Investors is a diversified asset manager and financial services company. The company's investment services are primarily offered through its subsidiary, GAMCO Asset Management, which manages separate accounts for high net worth individuals and institutions and qualified pension plans. The company's asset management businesses are supported by Gabelli & Company, an institutional broker and dealer that distributes the mutual funds and publishes investment research, which is one of the key elements of GAMCO Investors success. In addition, through its subsidiary Gabelli Securities, GAMCO serves as general partner or investment manager in a number of limited partnerships with varying investment objectives. GAMCO Investors maintains a location in Rye, N.Y.

Established in 1967, W. R. Berkley Corporation is a premier commercial lines property casualty insurance provider. Each of the operating units in the Berkley group participates in a niche market requiring specialized knowledge about a territory or product. Its five business segments include specialty insurance, alternative markets, reinsurance, regional property casualty insurance and international operations. The specialty units underwrites complex and sophisticated risks, including workers' compensation and property coverage and general, professional, product, excess and umbrella liabilities, as well as aviation, commercial transportation and program business insurance. The regional units write commercial lines coverage for small- and mid-sized business firms and governmental entities. This segment also writes surety coverage. The alternative markets units offer insurance products and develop and administer self-insurance programs and other alternative risk transfer mechanisms. The reinsurance units write reinsurance on both a facultative and treaty basis. The company's international business operates in selected regions. Headquartered in Greenwich, Conn., W. R. Berkley Corporation owns Admiral Insurance Company, Carolina Casualty Insurance Company, Monitor Liability Managers and Nautilus Insurance Company.

American Securities Capital Partners is the merchant-banking arm of American Securities whose predecessor entity was founded in 1947 by William Rosenwald. ASCP is a private investment partnership that makes equity investments in profitable companies, both privately and publicly held, primarily located in the United States and Canada. The company s objective is to build businesses and generate long-term capital for its investors. It focuses on companies with annual revenues ranging between $50 million and $500 million where it can invest between $35 million and $150 million of equity. The Rosenwald family, numerous high net-worth families and entrepreneurs and a number of institutional investors provide the firm s capital. Many of its investors are successful business people who assist the firm in sourcing transactions and who are a resource in evaluating and overseeing investments. American Securities Capital Partners is headquartered in New York.