Michael F. Nold

The Gores Group LLC (Gores Group) is a private equity firm, a subsidiary of AEG Holdings, Inc. founded in 1987 by Alec E. Gores. The firm is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

Avanex Corporation is a leading global provider of Intelligent Photonic Solutions(TM) to meet the needs of fiber optic communications networks for greater capacity, longer distance transmissions, improved connectivity, higher speeds and lower costs. These solutions enable or enhance optical wavelength multiplexing, dispersion compensation, switching and routing, transmission, amplification, and include network-managed subsystems. Avanex was incorporated in 1997 and is headquartered in Fremont, California. Avanex also maintains facilities in Erwin Park, N.Y.; Nozay, France; and San Donato, Italy. The facilities also are home to Avanex's Centers of Excellence for specialized research and manufacturing.

United Technologies Corp. engages in the provision of products and services to the building systems and aerospace industries worldwide. It operates through the following business segments: Otis; Carrier; Pratt and Whitney; and Collins Aerospace Systems. The Otis segment designs, manufactures, sells, and installs elevators, escalators, moving walkways, and service. The Carrier segment provides heating, ventilating, air conditioning, and refrigeration solutions. The Pratt and Whitney segment includes aircraft engines for the commercial, military, business jet, and general aviation markets. The Collins Aerospace Systems segment offers technologically advanced aerospace products and aftermarket service solutions for aircraft manufacturers, airlines, regional, business and general aviation markets, military, space and undersea operations. The company was founded in 1934 and is headquartered in Farmington, CT.

Bain & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It offers advisory services to the companies on their critical issues and opportunities: strategy, marketing, organization, operations, technology and mergers and acquisitions, across all industries and geographies. The company was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Westwood One, Inc. operates 5,000 radio stations and 182 television stations, which include stations in over 80 of the top 100 Metropolitan Statistical Area markets in the U.S and to over 450 digital outlets nationally. It produces and distributes, sports, talk, music, special events, traffic, news, weather and other programming content and reaches over 190 million people weekly. It exchanges content with radio stations for commercial airtime, which it sell to local, regional and national advertisers. By aggregating and packaging commercial airtime across radio stations nationwide. The company is operating through only segment: Network Radio. The Network Radio segment business strategy is focused on delivering the best sports, talk, music and entertainment programming, as well as key services, to affiliate and advertising customers. The segment content covers several categories and formats, including national news, sports, music, entertainment, and talk radio. In national news and sports, it distribute nationally branded programs such as CBS Radio News, CNN Radio News, NBC Radio News, and major high-profile sporting events, including the NFL, NCAA football and basketball games and the Winter Olympic Games in 2010. It was founded in 1974 and is headquartered in New York, NY.