Sigurdur Sigurðsson

Sterling Airlines A/S provides passenger air transportation services. It operates both charter and scheduled flights to more than 40 destinations across Europe, including Copenhagen, Aalborg, Billund, Oslo, Stockholm, and Gothenburg. Its fleet consists of eight Boeing 737-800, 17 Boeing 737-700, and four Boeing 737-500 planes. The company has offices in Copenhagen, Stockholm, Oslo, Gothenburg, Billund, Bergen, Malmoe, and Aalborg. Sterling Airlines was founded in September, 2005 and is headquartered in Dragør, Denmark

RPC Promens Group AS develops, manufactures, and distributes plastic packaging products. It provides a range of packaging products for customers in the consumer, chemical, and medical industries, and also components for the automotive and electronic industries. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Oslo, Norway.

The Group's principal activity is to provide financial services to both private customers and businesses. The Group's home markets are Iceland and Norway where it offers a broad range of financial services, including corporate banking, investment banking, capital markets, investment management and retail banking. Outside of the home markets the Group has operations in Finland, Sweden, UK, Luxembourg, US, Canada, China and Russia. The bank will furthermore open an office in India in the second half of 2008. The Group's international expansion is mainly driven by two specialized industry sectors, seafood and sustainable energy, in which the bank has developed significant industry expertise built on its Icelandic and Norwegian heritage. The Group's shares are listed on NASDAQ OMX in Iceland under the symbol GLB.

Stodir hf operates an investment company with interests in investments in the financials and insurance industry. t offers investment services to its subsidiaries. The firm offers investments in the flight and tourism industry. The company was founded on July 20, 1973 and is headquartered in Reykjavík, Iceland.

The Housing Financing Fund (HFF) is an independent government institution granting mortgage loans to individuals, municipalities, companies and organizations to finance housing purchase and construction work. The fund is financially independent and funds its lending and operations by its own income. The purpose of the fund is to ensure housing security and equality for all Icelanders through lending and organization of housing affairs and special investments in order to increase people´s opportunities of obtaining and leasing housing on controllable terms. The Housing Financing Fund grants such as General housing and home improvement loans to individuals, Loans for rental housing to municipalities, companies and organizations, and Loans for extensive housing renovations due to borrower´s limited physical capabilities. The Board of the Housing Financing Fund is free to create new loan classes, subject to the approval of the Ministry of Social Affairs. The Housing Financing Fund replaced the Icelandic Housing Authority upon the confirmation of the new Housing Act, no. 44/1998 once the State Building Fund and the Workers´ Building Fund were merged. The history of official lending for residential housing dates back to 1955 when the law on housing control, mortgage lending for housing construction and the elimination of unhealthy housing was confirmed. The Housing Authority was founded two years later and then the Housing Financing Fund at the beginning of 1999.