Jay S. Yoon

North Cove Partners LLC is an Independent Private Equity firm founded in 1993 by Chris John Birosak, Brian James Gorczynski and Angel Luis Morales. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Kubera Partners LLC (Kubera Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 2006 by Kumar Mahadeva. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Sun Capital Partners, Inc. (Sun Capital Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 1995 by Rodger R. Krouse and Marc J. Leder. The firm is headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida.

Founded in 2009, BAML Capital Partners, formerly Merrill Lynch Global Private Equity, is a private equity firm located in Charlotte, North Carolina with additional offices in Dallas, Texas and New York City. The firm is an operating division of BAML Global Principal Investments and their ultimate parent is Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC).

In 1915 Charles Edward Merrill founded Merrill Lynch & Co. (NYSE: MER) with Edmund C. Lynch in Baltimore, Maryland. The modern Merrill Lynch was formed in 1940 through mergers with E.A. Pierce & Cassatt and, soon after, Fenner & Beane. In 1973, Merrill Lynch adopted a holding company format, with Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. as the parent and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith as the operating subsidiary. Merrill Lynch Asset Management, Inc. (MLAM) was created as an integral business unit in the Merrill Lynch family in 1976. Fund Asset Management, doing business as Mercury Asset Management, was acquired in December 1997. In 2000, MLAM and Mercury were combined under the name Merrill Lynch Investment Managers. MLAM manages the Merrill Lynch family of mutual funds, as and acts as sub-advisor to other mutual funds.