Rafael Ortiz

Bell Sports, Inc. manufactures and markets sports equipment. It offers gloves, helmets, and other accessories for auto racing, motorcycling, and bicycling. The firm's products are sold under the brand names such as Bike Star, Rhode Gear, Vistalite, Blackburn, and SportRack. The company is headquartered in Rantoul, IL.

Riddell, Inc. designs and develops protective sports equipment. It manufactures football helmets, shoulder pads and cleaning, repairing, repainting recertifying existing equipment and reconditioning services. The company was founded by John Tate Riddell in 1929 and is located in Rosemont, IL.

Garnett & Helfrich Capital LLC (Garnett & Helfrich Capital) is a private equity and venture capital firm founded in 2004 by Terence J. Garnett and David Helfrich. The firm is headquartered in San Mateo, California.

Part of BRG Sports, Inc., Easton-Bell Sports LLC operates as a holding company. The company is based in Scotts Valley, CA.

BRG Sports, Inc. is a holding company, which engages in the design, manufacture, and distribution of sports equipment and accessories. Its brands portfolio include Easton, Bell, Giro, and Ridell. The firm’s products are used in baseball, ice hockey, cycling, snow sports, and skateboarding. The company was founded on April 21, 2003 and is headquartered in Des Plaines, IL.

Thomas Weisel Partners Group, Inc. is an investment banking company, which engages in the provision of investment banking, brokerage, equity research, and asset management services. Its services include brokerage services, tax and estate planning strategies, investment management consulting, alternate investments, and corporate client services. The company was founded by Thomas W. Weisel in 1999 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Phanfare, Inc. provides online photo and video sharing services. The firm offers a Photon application that enables the home printing of photos from iPhone or iPod touch devices to networked HP printers. It also sells archive DVDs, photo books, cards, and prints. The company was founded by Andrew Erlichson and Mark Heinrich in 2004 and is headquartered in Princeton, NJ.

DisperSol Technologies LLC offers plastics processing technology to pharmaceutical manufacturing companies. It offers KinetiSol, a pharmaceutical processing technology that provides solutions to oral drug delivery problems and for amorphous solid dispersion systems; and ArmoRx Platform, a processing technology that enables use of certain compendial pharmaceutical polymers to produce oral dosage forms that are inherently abuse deterrent. The company was founded by Gershon Yaniv in 2007 and is headquartered in Georgetown, TX.

Hellman & Friedman LLC (Hellman & Friedman) is a private equity firm founded in 1984 by Warren Hellman and Tully Friedman. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Wilson Sporting Goods Co. manufactures sports equipment. It designs, manufactures and distributes equipments for Football, Basketball, Baseball, Softball, Bats, Volleyball, Soccer, Golf, and Racquet Sports. The firm offers its products in the United States, Europe, Australia, and Japan. The company was founded in 1914 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Mitchell International, Inc provides data, software, and e-business solutions. It offers collision repair shop solutions, physical damage claims, auto casualty, and workers compensation claims management, smart price solutions, and pharmacy solutions. The company was founded by Glenn Mitchell in 1946 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

JH Partners LLC (JH Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 1986. The firm headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Jurlique International Pty Ltd. manufactures and distributes skin care and cosmetic products. It operates herb farms at Mount Barker and Mylor in South Australia. The company was founded by Jurgen Klein and Ulrike Klein in 1985 and is headquartered in Mount Barker, Australia.

Wyse Technology is the global leader in Cloud Client Computing. The Wyse portfolio includes industry-leading thin, zero and cloud PC client solutions with advanced management, desktop virtualization and cloud software supporting desktops, laptops and next generation mobile devices. Cloud client computing replaces the outdated computing model of the unsecure, unreliable, energy-intensive and expensive PC, all while delivering lower TCO and a superior user experience. Wyse has shipped more than 20 million units and has over 200 million people interacting with their products each day, enabling the leading private, public, hybrid and government cloud implementations worldwide. Wyse partners with industry-leading IT vendors, including Citrix®, IBM®, Microsoft®, and VMware® as well as globally-recognized distribution and service partners. Wyse is headquartered in San Jose, California, U.S.A., with offices worldwide.

Tailwind Sports Corp. provides advertising and marketing services. The company is a sports marketing agency that owns and manages the Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team, which is led by six-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong. It was founded in 1989 by Thomas W. Weisel and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Azingo, Inc. engages in providing mobile phone software. It also develops solutions for the segments of the mobile software market including cellular feature phones and lower-cost smartphones. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

The California Academy of Sciences operates as a scientific and cultural institution. The Academy houses an aquarium, a planetarium a natural history museum and a rainforest. It was founded in 1853 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

TGen Foundation operates as a non-profit genomics research institute. The firm offers research in faculty, shared resources & services, cancer, neurological disorders, pathogen & microbiome, center for rare childhood disorders and canine. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Phoenix, AZ.

Bay Travelgear, Inc. operates luggage and leather goods stores.

United States Ski Team Foundation is a non-profit organization. It provides a range of membership programs for athletes and other young skiers engages in athletic programs. The company was founded in 1964 and is headquartered in Park City, UT.

Actian Corp. provides open source database management software and support services. It offers consumer-style applications that automate business actions triggered by real-time changes in data. Its products include Actian data integration, data management, and analytics databases. The company was founded in 1980 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

MRB Capital LLC is headquartered in Smyrna, GA.