Harold Edwards

Fisher Scientific International, Inc. manufactured and distributed scientific equipment and instruments that included everything from Erlenmeyer flasks to video/microscope systems. The company also produced chemicals, clinical equipment, diagnostic kits, reagents and laboratory workstations. Fisher Scientific International was founded in 1902 and was headquartered in Hampton, NH.

Cargill, Inc. engages in the provision of food, agricultural, financial, and industrial products and services. It specializes in food service, agriculture, meat and poultry, transportation, pharmaceutical ingredients, and beauty products. The company was founded by William Wallace Cargill in 1865 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.

Inventure Foods, Inc. engages in the manufacture and marketing of healthy and natural snack food brands products. It operates through Snack Products and Frozen Products segments. The Snack Products segment offers potato chips, kettle chips, potato crisps, potato skins, pellet snacks, sheeted dough products and extruded products for sale primarily to snack food distributors and retailers. The Frozen Products segment provides frozen fruits, vegetables, beverages and frozen desserts for sale primarily to grocery stores, club stores and mass merchandisers. The company was founded by Jay Poore and Don Poore in 1983 and is headquartered in Hanover, PA.

Part of Hardwood Products Co. LLC, Puritan Medical Products Co. LLC is a world-class manufacturer of medical products. The private company is based in Guilford, ME. Puritan is a family-owned and operated company that takes pride in its rural, small-town work ethic. The company offers a wide range of medical products made with the most up-to-date materials and manufacturing processes, including swabs, diagnostic, and specimen collection products. All products are lab tested and made in the USA. The company was founded in 1919 by Lloyd Cartwright as a toothpick manufacturer with a focus on delivering quality products and superior customer service.

Compass Diversified Holdings, a traded fund in New York Stock Exchange, seeks investment opportunities in small and middle-market companies located in North America with an enterprise value of USD 10-100 million and an annual EBITDA of at least USD 20 million. The fund targets companies operating in industrial and branded consumer sectors. It provides financing for acquisitions, buyouts, and later-stage capital requirements with transaction size ranging from USD 200-800 million utilizing debt and equity. It takes controlling interests and makes investments in public companies.

Compass Group Diversified Holdings LLC acquires and manages a group of small and middle market businesses. It acquires controlling interests in and actively manages businesses that operate in industries with long-term macroeconomic growth opportunities; have positive and stable cash flows; face minimal threats of technological or competitive obsolescence and; have management teams largely in place. The company was founded on November 18, 2005 and is headquartered in Westport, CT.