Ross E. Hammer

Olympus Advisors focuses on investments in the following sectors: business services, logistics/transportation services, healthcare manufacturing, healthcare services, financial services, consumer and restaurants, software and information technology services. The firm seeks to invest in companies with the potential for significant growth through the introduction of new products, expansion into new geographical regions, enhancing direct sales efforts, accessing new indirect sales channels or acquiring complementary products or businesses. They also look for companies with strong management teams and dominant market positions. Olympus focuses on investments in market-leading companies with established, dominant markets positions in defensible niche.For growth capital investments, Olympus invests in companies that have demonstrated market acceptance of their products or services and that have proven business models and sound plans for growth. The firm looks for market-leading companies with a dominant position in a defensible market niche. At the time the firm invests, a company must be generating meaningful revenues and, if not yet profitable, must be capable of achieving breakeven within a short time under reasonable growth assumptions. Olympus does not provide seed or early-stage venture capital, but they do consider private financings of public companies or going private transactions.Investments range from $50 million for growth capital deals to $300 million or more for buyouts. Olympus Partners' funds are typically used for strategic acquisitions, expansion into new locations, the development of new products, to build new sales channels, for investments in additional infrastructure and to provide liquidity for existing shareholders.The firm does not become involved in the day-to-day activities of their portfolio companies but they do take a seat on their portfolio companies' boards of directors.

Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, Banc of America Securities (BAS) is the investment banking subsidiary of Bank of America Corp (NYSE: BAC). The firm provides both the domestic and international equity and investment banking markets, and pursues a strategy pioneered by Citigroup that combines corporate lending with investment banking advice and services.They provide high-yield debt underwriting and leveraged finance, in addition to industry coverage groups such as healthcare, media and telecom, financial institutions, real estate and gaming. BAS also does a significant amount of work for Financial Sponsors, or private equity firms, often financing leveraged transactions. Following the strategy of Goldman Sachs, the firm lacks a standalone mergers and acquisitions department, instead employing mergers and acquisitions senior bankers throughout the industry coverage groups.The firm is registered as a broker/dealer with the SEC, is a member of the NYSE, and the NASD. The use of Banc in the BAS's name is indicative of the fact that the company is not a bank, and their deposits and other holdings are not insured by the FDIC.