Donald Kornstein

Bear, Stearns & Co., Inc. is a global investment banking, securities trading and brokerage firm located in New York City with additional offices in Dallas, Boston and San Francisco. The firm is a subsidiary Bear Sterns Cos., Inc. (NYSE: BSC). Their equity research team consists of senior analysts located throughout the world. In addition to domestic coverage, they have research teams focusing on Latin America, Asia and Europe. The analysts use a bottom-up approach to stock selection. The Bear Stearns fixed-income research department provides coverage of every sector of the fixed-income universe. The financial analytics and structured transactions group (F.A.S.T) provides investment research, fixed-income portfolio management and analytical systems, trading technology and general financial expertise. The group also provides a broad range of services to financial institutions including asset-liability management, balance sheet restructuring, receivables-based financing analysis, security and portfolio analysis, peer analysis, and historical and real-time market-based information.

Circuit City Stores, Inc. is a specialty retailer of consumer electronics, home office products, entertainment software and related services. The company has two reportable segments: its domestic segment and its international segment. Circuit City was incorporated under the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia in 1949. The company is located in Richmond, VA.

Varsity Brands LLC engages in the operations of educational camps, clinics, and competitions for cheerleaders. It provides team athletic gears; and graduation and recognition products and services. The company was founded by Jeffrey G. Webb in 1974 and is headquartered in Memphis, TN.

SHFL entertainment, Inc. develops, manufactures and markets technology-based products for the gaming industry. It operates its business through four segments: Utility, Proprietary Table Games, Electronic Table Systems and Electronic Gaming Machines. The Utility segment develops products for licensed casino operators that enhance table game speed, productivity, profitability and security. Utility products include various models of automatic card shufflers to suit specific games, as well as deck checkers, and roulette chip sorters. This segment also includes its i-shoe auto card reading shoe that gathers data and enables casinos to track table game play and its i-Score baccarat viewer that displays current game results and trends. The Proprietary Table Games segment consists of proprietary table games that enhance its casino customers' and other licensed operators' table game operations. Products in this segment include its internally developed and acquired proprietary table games, side bets, add-ons and progressives as well as its newly introduced online gaming products, which feature online versions of its table games, social gaming and mobile applications. Its proprietary content and features are also added to public domain games such as poker, baccarat, pai gow poker, craps and blackjack table games and to electronic platforms such as table master, vegas star and i-table. The Electronic Table Systems segment consists of various products involving popular table game content using e-Table game platforms. Its primary ETS products are i-table, table master, vegas star and rapid table games. Its i-table platform combines an electronic betting interface with a live dealer and live cards or a live wheel that is designed to improve game speed and security while reducing many operating expenses associated with live tables. Its table master and vegas star products feature a virtual dealer which enables the company to offer table game content in both traditional gaming markets and in markets where live table games are not permitted, such as some racinos, video lottery and arcade markets. Like the i-table, its rapid table games product enables the automation of certain components of traditional table games such as data collection, placement of bets, collection of losing bets and payment of winning bets combined with live dealer and game outcomes. The Electronic Gaming Machines segment develops and delivers its video slot machines into markets including Australia, New Zealand, Asia, Mexico and parts of South America. It offers a selection of video slot titles developed as stand-alone units or as linked progressive machines. In addition to selling the full EGM complement, it sells software conversion kits that allow existing EGM terminals to be converted to other games that operate on the current PC4 operating platform. In addition, it continues to develop a popular range of games utilizing the Pink Panther brand, under license from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Inc. SHFL entertainment was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in Las Vegas, NV.

Bally Total Fitness Holding Corp. operates fitness centers. The company was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Cash Systems, Inc. develops and provides proprietary cash advance systems and ATMs as well as operates check cashing systems for the gaming industry. The company provides credit and debit card cash advances, automated teller machine cash withdrawals, and check cashing solutions. The company was founded by Craig K. Potts in 1983 and is headquartered in Las Vegas, NV.

Herbst Gaming, Inc. was an operator of slot machines in Nevada. The company operated through two business segments: slot route operations and casino operations. The slot route operations involved in the installation, operation and service of slot machines at strategic, high traffic, non-casino locations, such as grocery stores, drug stores, convenience stores, bars, and restaurants. The Casino operations consist of two geographic areas, Nevada and other states. The company was headquartered in Las Vegas, NV.