Peter Schoels

Standard Pacific Corp. engages in the building of homes and communities in the United States. It primarily focuses on building family oriented communities in many of the housing markets including California, Florida, Arizona, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas and Colorado. The company operates in two principal businesses: homebuilding and financial services (consisting of its mortgage financing and title operations). Its homebuilding operations construct and sell single-family attached and detached homes. Its mortgage financing operation provides mortgage financing to its homebuyers in substantially all of the markets in which it operates, and sells substantially all of the loans it originates in the secondary mortgage market. Its title service operation provides title examinations for its homebuyers in Texas. Standard Pacific was founded by Ronald R. Foell and Arthur E. Svendsen in 1965 and is headquartered in Irvine, CA.

Flagstar Bancorp, Inc.is a bank holding company, which engages in the provision of financial services. It operates through the following segments: Community Banking, Mortgage Originations, Mortgage Servicing, and Other. The Community Banking segment offers loans, deposits, checking and savings accounts, consumer and commercial loans, treasury management, equipment leasing, and capital markets services. The Mortgage Originations segment acquires and markets residential mortgage loans. The Mortgage Servicing segment comprises financing solutions to properties held-for-investment. The Other segment consists of interest rate risk management, investment securities portfolios, balance sheet funding, treasury and corporate assets, and equities. The company was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Troy, MI.

MaltinPatterson Global Advisers LLC (MaltinPatterson Global Advisers) is a private equity firm, a subsidiary of Mattinpatterson PE Holdings LLC, founded in 2002 by David Jeffrey Matlin and Mark R. Patterson. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Premium Protein Products LLC is a meat processor based in Lincoln, Nebraska. The company processes, prepares, packages, and delivers fresh, further processed, and value-added beef, pork, and chicken products for sale to customers in the U.S. and international markets. With an emphasis on natural, organic, and source verified meat, Premium Protein sells its products to retail, foodservice, institutional, and international channels. Premium Protein operates two facilities: Hastings, NE, is a QSA certified beef slaughter and fabrication facility. Lincoln, NE, is further processing facility providing both value added raw and cooked products.

Global Aviation Holdings, Inc. provides customized, non scheduled passenger and cargo air transport services. The company was founded on January 26, 2006 and is headquartered in Peachtree City, GA.

Credit Suisse First Boston USA, Inc. provides investment banking services. It offers securities underwriting, trading, mergers, acquisitions advice, research, private equity investment, derivative and risk management products. The company's services include private banking and asset management. Credit Suisse First Boston USA is headquartered in New York, NY