Alexis Michas

AirTran Airways, Inc. provides passenger air transportation services. It operates flights to various domestic and international destinations in the United States, Aruba, the Bahamas, Bermuda, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Mexico, and Puerto Rico. The company was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

HK Systems, Inc. designs, delivers and supports comprehensive material flow solutions. Its charter is to help companies achieve their corporate objectives with the lowest possible risk by providing appropriate product, system and enterprise level solutions that yield long term rewards. The company started as the automation arm of a midwestern fortune 300 manufacturer in the late 1960's. HK Systems began a successful sequence of strategic acquisitions in the material handling industry to develop a portfolio of quality, American-made systems, software and components. Today, HK is an innovative yet conservative organization, focused on delivering complex turnkey supply chain solutions.

Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc. (MLPFS) is the SEC-registered broker/dealer subsidiary of Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc., ultimately held by Charlotte-based Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC). The firm was founded in 1958 and is headquartered in New York City. In 2010, Banc of America Securities LLC merged with MLPFS and the firm uses the trade name Bank of America Merrill Lynch. MLPFS's global strategy and economics team serves institutional and individual investors using a wide range of macroeconomic disciplines. Their analysis of global issues provides clients with investment ideas, market forecasts, macro overviews and specific sector recommendations across asset classes, regions and disciplines. Their equity research team conducts fundamental analysis on companies globally and provides institutional and retail clients with industry-specific and in-depth research and analysis on numerous industries. The firm's global fixed-income and equity-linked research focuses on fixed-income and equity derivatives, fixed-income strategy, convertibles, commodities, high-yield, mortgages, municipals and global foreign exchange.

Burns International Services Corp. provides physical security services. It also provides permanent and mobile guarding, alarm monitoring, security consulting and investigation services. The firm security officers also monitored electronic systems, controlled public and employee access to facilities. The company is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Founded in 1994, Stonington Partners, Inc. is a private equity firm located in New York City with an additional office in Clayton, Missouri.

Part of Bank of America Corp., Merrill Lynch Capital Partners, Inc. is a security broker and dealer. The private company is based in New York, NY. The company was founded by Jim J. Burke.

Palace Entertainment, Inc. operates water parks and family entertainment centers. Its amusement parks include Wet 'N Wild, Raging Waters, Splish Splash, Big Kahuna's, Water Country, Mountain Creek and Wild Waters. The company was founded by Selwyn H. Joffe, William L. Rameson and Erik Rameson in 1998 and is headquartered in Newport Beach, CA.

Goss International Americas LLC supplies magazine printing equipment. It offers presses and finishing systems including automated and web offset presses for newspaper, packaging, catalog, direct mail, and other printing applications. The company was founded by Fred Goss and Sam Goss in 1885 and is headquartered in Durham, NH.

Columbia National, Inc. provided mortgage banking services. The company was headquartered in Fulton, MD.

PerkinElmer focuses on improving the health and safety of people and the environment. The company is headquartered in Zaventem, Belgium.

Juniper Investment Co. LLC (Juniper) is an independent SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in New York City. The firm was founded by John Bartholdson and Alexis Michas in 2008. Juniper manages and provides discretionary investment advisory services to a private investment master fund and its feeder fund, a special purpose investment vehicle (SPIV), and a co-investment vehicle on behalf of the general partner, high net-worth individuals, family offices and institutional investors.

Juniper Investment Co. LLC (Juniper Investment Co.) is a private equity division of Juniper Investment Co. founded in 2007 by Alexis Platon Michas and John Anders Bartholdson. The firm is headquartered in New York.