J. Mark Jones

River Associates Investments LLC is an independent private equity firm founded in 1989. The firm is headquartered in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

A division of SouthTrust Corporation (NASDAQ: SOTR), SouthTrust Asset Management offers a comprehensive range of services to meet the financial needs of individuals, as well as corporations, foundations and government municipalities. SouthTrust offers a family of proprietary fixed-income and equity mutual funds, manages customized portfolios of individual securities and provides a portfolio of outside third-party mutual funds. The firm is based in Birmingham, Alabama.

Association for Corporate Growth, Inc. is a global organization founded in 1954 by Kenneth S. Berryman and David H. Brenner. The non-profit company is based in Chicago, IL and has subsidiaries in the United Kingdom, Netherlands, Canada, and the United States. The company's mission is to drive middle-market growth and it serves 90,000 investors, executives, lenders, and advisers to growing middle-market companies. The company's core focus is on middle-market M&A, with more than 25 years of sell-side and buy-side advisory experience, closing more than 200 transactions with a combined value of more than $1 billion. The company also publishes Middle Market Growth, the official publication of the Association for Corporate Growth, which includes a print magazine, website, weekly e-newsletter, and daily newsfeed. The CEO of the company since 2019 is Brent A. Baxter.