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Alfonso de Angoitia

Alfonso de Angoitia is a regular annual attendee of the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference media summit in Idaho, an annual conference hosted by private investment firm Allen & Company which typically features business, political, philanthropic and cultural heavyweights.


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Active Interest Media

The company was formed in 2003 by private-equity investment firm Wind Point Partners by the acquisition of Sabot Publishing, a "special interest" publisher based in Richmond, VA which had been established in 1999 by James Causey and Colonnade Capital.

Alias Systems Corporation

the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan and Accel-KKR, a technology-focused private equity investment firm, for US$57.1 million.

ARDC

American Research and Development Corporation, an early venture capital investment firm founded in 1946

Autolite

Since then, it has been manufactured and marketed by FRAM Group, LLC, which is a constituent company of Auckland, New Zealand-based investment firm Rank Group.

Cygnus Business Media

Commerce Connect was formed with the intention of acquiring media properties in 1999 by CEO Paul Mackler and the ABRY Partners investment firm, Commerce Connect controlled Cygnus for most of the next decade.

Elmer's Products

The company was acquired in 2003 by Berwind Corporation, a privately held investment firm that also owns WellPet and the National Pen Company.

Embassy of the United States, London

In November 2009, the U.S. government conditionally agreed to sell the Grosvenor Square Chancery Building to Qatari real-estate investment firm Qatari Diar, which in 2007 purchased the Chelsea Barracks.

Exopack Advanced Coatings

Exopack Advanced Coatings (EAC) is a division of Exopack Holding Corp, owned by Sun Capital Partners, a private investment firm.

Friedman's Inc.

In the latter year New York investor Phillip Ean Cohen and his investment firm of Morgan Schiff & Co. formed a partnership and purchased Friedman's for $50 million from the Friedman family.

Highland Capital

Highland Capital Management, a multi-billion dollar distressed investment firm and hedge fund and mutual fund manager based in Dallas, Texas

Howard Twilley

He owned 28 The Athlete's Foot sporting goods stores before selling them in 1990, and he worked in an investment firm.

Israel Englander

In 1985, he and his partner John Mulheren Jr., started an investment firm called Jamie Securities Co. with a $75 million investment from the Belzberg family of Canada.

Karen Richardson

Richardson is a former adviser to Silver Lake Partners, a private equity investment firm that built successful investments in Skype, Seagate Technology and Alibaba Group Holding Co.

Lim Hwee Hua

In October 2011, Lim was appointed a Senior Advisor at the global investment firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR).

Marcel Herrmann Telles

Their investment firm 3G Capital bought Hamburger chain Burger King in 2010.

Martín Redrado

He earned a Master's Degree in Public Administration from Harvard University, and was brought on by the Wall Street investment firm Salomon Brothers, where he served as adviser on their handling of the privatizations of British Airways, British Gas plc and the French Compagnie Financière de Suez, during the late 1980s.

My Little Margie

Vern Albright is the vice-president of the investment firm of Honeywell and Todd, where his bosses are George Honeywell (Clarence Kolb) and Todd (George Meader).

North American Breweries

North American Breweries was a new parent corporation established by New York City investment firm KPS Capital Partners to manage its brewery acquisitions: Genesee Brewing Company, Dundee Brewing Company, Pyramid, Magic Hat, and MacTarnahan's.

Puregold

On February, 2013, global investment firm Capital Group Companies (CGC) bought 5.4% total outstanding stock of Puregold.

Robert Vesco

In 1970, Vesco began a successful takeover bid for Investors Overseas Service, Ltd., a mutual fund investment firm with holdings of $1.5 billion run by financier Bernard Cornfeld, who had run into trouble with the SEC.

Rodolphe Hottinger

In 1987, he was instrumental for the creation of the Swiss Helvetia Fund, the first Swiss close-end investment firm listed on the New York Stock Exchange, which deals in equity and equity-linked securities of Swiss companies.

SagamoreHill Broadcasting

The company, which was founded in 2003, is a joint venture of the investment firm Duff Ackerman & Goodrich of San Francisco, California and former Benedek Broadcasting and Spartan Communications executive Louis Wall (who is also CEO of the group).

SIRVA

On January 12, 1998, NAVL was bought out from Norfolk Southern Corp. by the private investment firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice for more than US$200 million.

Stratus Technologies

The enterprise server portion of the business was of little interest to Ascend and that portion was spun off in a management buyout in 1999, with funding from international investment firm, Investcorp.

Warrington College of Business Administration

William R. Hough of St. Petersburg, Florida, founder of the investment firm bearing his name and an alumnus of the first MBA class of Warrington College in 1948, donated $30 million to Warrington College in 2007.

WCAS

Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe, a private equity investment firm in the United States

Wind power in New Jersey

Google and Good Energies, an investment firm, are the major investors in the $5 billion project proposed by Trans-Elect Development Company which would deliver power ashore at two points, one in South Jersey and one in northeastern New Jersey as well as Delaware and southern Virginia.