Jeffrey A. Shepard

Assisted Living Concepts, Inc. provides residential care facilities. It operates senior living residences that provide seniors with a supportive, home-like setting with care and services, including 24-hour assistance with activities of daily living, medication management, life enrichment, health, and wellness. The firm offers senior living options including assisted living, memory care, independent living, and short-term stay. The company was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Washington Mutual, Inc. provides financial services to consumers and mid sized businesses in the United States. The company primarily operates through three segments: retail banking & financial services, mortgage banking and commercial banking. The retail banking and financial services segment provides investment advisory and brokerage services, sales of annuities, mutual fund management and other financial services. This segment also purchases and re-underwrites loans to subprime borrowers. The mortgage banking segment offers various home loans including fixed rate home loans, adjustable rate home loans, hybrid home loans, option ARMs and government insured or guaranteed home loans. The commercial segment provides financing to developers and investors for the acquisition or construction of multifamily dwellings and other commercial properties, originates and services multifamily and other commercial real estate loans. The company was founded in August 1994 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

American Restaurant Group, Inc. operates and franchises restaurants. The company was founded by Anwar S. Soliman in 1986 and is headquartered in Los Altos, CA.

Teletrac, Inc. develops real time vehicle tracking systems. Its solutions include fleet director software, electronic logging devices, data partners, and network partners. The company was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in Garden Grove, CA.

American Bank Note Holographics, Inc. designs, produces, and markets security holograms. It offers transaction cards, bank notes and documents of value, product authentication, identification documents and security packaging. The firm also produces holographic imagery for decorative and promotional purposes. The company was founded in August 1985 and is headquartered in Robbinsville, NJ.

Tata Chemicals North America, Inc. produces and markets soda ash. It offers dense soda ash, natural light soda ash, and synthetic light soda ash. The company was founded in 1884 and is headquartered in Sandy, UT.

Inner City Media Corp. operates as a radio broadcasting company. The private company is based in New York, NY.

Primus Telecommunications, Inc. provides integrated telecommunications services. It delivers high-quality solutions to consumers, including small & medium enterprises and multinational businesses. Unlike the rest, the company takes advantage of global telecommunications deregulation. This allows Primus to bring clients facilities-based networks and facilities-based datacenters for a sophisticated line of services to manage their complete E-Business and data communication needs. The company was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in McLean, VA.

Xstelos Holdings, Inc. operates as a development stage company which is currently seeking funding from other sources, including, but not limited to, contribution by others to joint ventures and other collaborative or licensing arrangements for the development, testing, manufacturing and marketing of products currently under development, and sales of debt or equity securities. The company is headquartered in New York, NY.

Graham & James LLP provides legal services. The private company is based in San Francisco, CA. The company was founded by Michael A. Hertzberg.

Arthur Andersen LLP used to provide accounting services. It was also into consulting services for clients that operate businesses throughout the United States and around the world. Arthur Andersen was founded in 1913 and was headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Nationstar Mortgage LLC provides home loan services. It is a real estate services company engaged primarily in the servicing of residential mortgage loans for others, the origination and selling or securitization of single-family conforming mortgage loans to GSEs or other third-party investors in the secondary market, and providing mortgage and default service offerings through solutionstar, the firm's ancillary services business. The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Lewisville, TX.

Tatum LLC provides executive consulting services. It provides services to the healthcare, private equity, venture capital, public, not-for-profit, manufacturing, distribution, retail, financial and business services sectors. The company was founded by John Tatum and Doug Tatum in 1993 and is located in Atlanta, GA.

FiberTower Corp. provides backhaul services to wireless carriers. It offers backhaul and access service to government and enterprise markets. The company was founded by Eric Botto, Bernard Koh, David Leeds and Harpinder Singh Madan in July 2000 and is headquartered in Atlanta, GA.