John Ruby

Hill River Capital, Inc. (Hill River Capital) is a private equity subsidiary of Raymond James Financial, Inc. founded in 1997. The firm is headquartered in St. Petersburg, Florida.

Iconic Group, Inc. engages in the provision of professional event photography services. Its brands include Grad Images, University Photo, and Marathon Foto. The company is headquartered in Chesterfield, MO.

Salon Lofts Group LLC owns and operates a chain of beauty salons. Its salons offer hair, nail, skin, and massage services. The firm has locations in Columbus, Tampa, Cincinnati, Greater Cleveland, Indianapolis, Dayton, Sts Louis, Atlanta, Sarasota, Charlotte, Raleigh, and District of Columbia. The company was founded by Daniel M. Sadd in 2003 and is headquartered in Columbus, OH.

Nielsen BioSciences, Inc. manufactures biological products. Its products include candin HCP, spherusol HCP and spherusol patient. The company was founded by Harry S. Nielsen and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

SLG Partners LP provides financial services. The company is headquartered in St. Petersburg, FL.

Sirchie Finger Print Laboratories, Inc. develops, manufactures and sells crime investigation and fingerprint gathering equipment. Its products include recording materials, invisible inks, forensic analysis equipment and software to assist in creating composite images. The company is headquartered in Youngsville, NC.

NationsRent Cos., Inc., provides leasing, rental and selling services of industrial equipments. The company specializes in rentals and also sells new and used equipment with related merchandise, parts supplies and provides maintenance as well as repair services. It offers a line of equipment and related services to a broad range of construction, industrial and homeowner customers. NationsRent was founded in August 1997, and is headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, FL.

Part of KPMG International Cooperative, KPMG, Inc. provides audit and accounting services. The company is based in Vancouver, Canada. The CEO of the Canadian company is Walter R. Pela.

Part of IT Group, Inc., OHM Corp. is a full-service electrical engineering corporation that provides maintenance, modernization, and expansion design services to industrial, commercial, and government clients. The company is based in Findlay, OH. The company delivers expert engineering and design solutions on time and within budget, with direct communication between clients and top engineers during all project phases. OHM has been in business since 1986 and offers forensic electrical engineering investigations and expert witness services to the insurance and legal community. OHM was acquired by International Technologies Corp. on June 11, 1998 for $162.93 million.

Founded in 1962, Raymond James Financial, Inc. (NYSE: RJF) is a diversified holding company headquartered in St. Petersburg, Florida. The firm provides services to individuals, corporations and municipalities through their wholly-owned subsidiaries: Raymond James & Associates, Raymond James Financial Services and Raymond James Ltd. Raymond James operates through eight segments: Private Client Group (PCG); Capital Markets; Asset Management; Raymond James Bank (RJ Bank); Emerging Markets; Securities Lending; Proprietary Capital; and Other. The Private Client Group segment provides securities transaction and financial planning services to client accounts through the branch office systems of the company's subsidiaries. The Capital Markets segment's activities consist primarily of equity and fixed income products and services. The Asset Management segment provides asset management services for individual investment portfolios and mutual funds. The RJ Bank segment provides corporate, residential and consumer loans, as well as Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. insured deposit accounts, to clients of the company's broker-dealer subsidiaries and to the general public. The Emerging Markets segment operates securities brokerage, investment banking, asset management and equity research businesses. The Securities Lending segment conducts its business through the borrowing and lending of securities from and to other broker-dealers, financial institutions and other counterparties. The Proprietary Capital segment consists of the company's principal capital and private equity activities, including various direct and third-party private equity and merchant banking investments. Raymond James' capital markets reach within the financial institutions segment focuses on community and regional banks and thrifts including equity research, sales, trading and investment banking resources and services. Raymond James is one of the largest research organizations in the brokerage industry and serves institutional investors domestically and abroad. The firm's capital markets activities are based on insightful, timely and comprehensive equity research. They publish research on over 1,000 companies in their core industries. Raymond James seeks attractive niches within broader industries and then covers these sectors deeply to develop differentiated sector expertise and relationships. Although their focus is mid- and small-cap companies, their coverage includes large, medium and small companies across each sector. Raymond James' Institutional Trading division is organized into 3 specialty departments: Sales Trading, Principal trading and Agency Trading. Their Sales Trading division covers over 800 domestic and 1,300 international financial institutions throughout North America and Europe. The firm's Principal Trading division consists of industry-focused teams and their OTC Principal Trading department makes markets in over 680 domestic stocks, 85% of which are covered by Raymond James Institutional Research department. Their Agency Trading department services the trading needs of over 5,500 financial advisors located in 2,500 retail offices across the US.