Alan Welch

Carousel Capital Management Co LP (Carousel Capital) is a private equity firm founded in 1996 by Erskine Bowles and Nelson Schwab. The firm is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Armstrong Transport Group LLC provides logistics, consulting, and transportation services. It offers full service logistics services including full truckload, rail, refrigerated, heavy haul, expedited, and over dimensional. The company was founded by Christopher Cobb in 2006 and is headquartered in Charlotte, NC.

Process Equipment, Inc. manufactures installs, and repairs air, gas and material handling equipment. It offers onsite technical, construction, turnkey, preventive maintenance, and southern field services. The firm serves to the biomass, power, cement and lime, steel and metals, and paper industries. The company was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Pelham, AL.

Pegasus TransTech LLC provides document management and integrated document delivery solutions. Its products include TRANSFLO a document management and workflow solution to process, store, and retrieve business documents, such as proof of delivery, bills of lading, packing lists, receipts, employment applications, and accident reports. The company was founded by Leslie Berlin in 1998 and is headquartered in Tampa, FL.

Arcapita Group Holdings Ltd. provides alternative Islamic financial products. It offers investors with opportunities in alternative investment products in a Shariah-compliant manner and investment management services in connection with such products. The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in George Town, Cayman Islands.

BB&T Securities LLC, doing business as BB&T Capital Markets, is the broker/dealer subsidiary of BB&T Corp. (NYSE: BBT). The firm is headquartered in Richmond, Virginia. They offer a full array of investment, trading and execution services to middle-market companies. BB&T Capital Markets' sales and trading arm is comprised of 2 groups: Debt Securities Sales & Trading and Equity Sales & Trading. The Debt Securities Sales & Trading group focuses on: (1) Government and agency securities (2) corporate bonds (3) municipal bonds (4) asset-backed securities (5) mortgage-backed securities (6) preferred securities and (7) money market desk (short-term securities including BB&T funding). The Equity Sales & Trading group focuses on: (1) institutional block execution services (2) institutional distribution of proprietary research (3) providing proprietary access to industry leading conferences and management teams (4) serving as a NASDAQ market maker for over 250 securities (5) stock buybacks including 10b-18 and 10b5-1 trading plans and (6) 144 stock sales, individual 10b5-1 trading plans (buy and sell) and employee cashless stock option programs. BB&T Capital Markets provides research coverage of the communications, defense and government services, energy, financial services, furnishings and consumer durables, healthcare, industrial services, retail/consumer durables and transportation services sectors.

The Advantage Software Co. LLC develops and offers business process management software. Its services include implementation, training, ongoing support, consulting, disaster recovery, users group, software enhancements and custom programming. The company was founded in 1977 and is headquartered in Mooresville, NC.

Pye-Barker Fire & Safety LLC distributes fire and safety equipment. The firm’s products and services include national accounts, 24-hour emergency service, backflow preventers, burglar alarms/CCTV, code compliance reporting, data center fire suppression, exit signs/emergency lighting, fire alarms, fire extinguishers, fire sprinklers, fire training, industrial paint booths, fire safety inspections, kitchen exhaust hood cleaning, restaurant fire suppression, marine fire suppression, specialty fire and vehicle fire suppression. The company was founded in 1946 and is headquartered in Alpharetta, GA.

HEPACO LLC engages in the provision of emergency response, and environmental remediation. Its services include emergency response, industrial, marine, waste, and remediation. The company was founded by Ronald L. Horton, Sr. in 1984 and is headquartered in Charlotte, NC.