Trevor S. Parris

Saltchuk Resources, Inc. operates as a holding company with interest in freight services, real estate management, and petroleum distribution. It offers marine services, trucking, petroleum distribution, air cargo, domestic shipping and logistics and international shipping and logistics. The company was founded by Frederick M. Goldberg, Stanley H. Barer, Michael D. Garvey, Everett W. Trout, and Leonard Shapiro in 1982 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Seven Seas Insurance Co., Inc. provides cargo insurance. It insures dry, refrigerated, full container load and less than container load cargo. The company was founded in 1967 and is headquartered in Riviera Beach, FL.

Freeman Spogli & Co Inc (Freeman Spogli) is a private equity firm founded in 1983 by Bradford M. Freeman and Ronald Paul Spogli. The firm is headquartered in Los Angeles, California and their offices in New York.

In 1915 Charles Edward Merrill founded Merrill Lynch & Co. (NYSE: MER) with Edmund C. Lynch in Baltimore, Maryland. The modern Merrill Lynch was formed in 1940 through mergers with E.A. Pierce & Cassatt and, soon after, Fenner & Beane. In 1973, Merrill Lynch adopted a holding company format, with Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. as the parent and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith as the operating subsidiary. Merrill Lynch Asset Management, Inc. (MLAM) was created as an integral business unit in the Merrill Lynch family in 1976. Fund Asset Management, doing business as Mercury Asset Management, was acquired in December 1997. In 2000, MLAM and Mercury were combined under the name Merrill Lynch Investment Managers. MLAM manages the Merrill Lynch family of mutual funds, as and acts as sub-advisor to other mutual funds.