Jeff Tollefson

ALLIED Group, Inc. provides property and casualty insurance, investment services excess and surplus lines insurance and data processing services. The company's property-casualty segment operates through three subsidiaries: AMCO insurance company, ALLIED property and casualty insurance company and Depositors insurance company. The segment underwrites personal lines and small commercial lines and operates in the United States. The company is headquartered in Des Moines, IA.

PACE Health Management Systems, Inc. is engaged in the development, marketing and support of clinical software for automating the recording, storage and management of patient care information. PACE Health Management Systems was founded in 1987 and is based in Des Moines, Iowa.

Secure Computing Corp. develops network security solutions that enable organizations to exchange critical information with their customers, partners and employees. Its product lines include Sidewinder G2 security appliances for application security, safeword products that enable organizations to remote access to network resources and verify the identity of remote users, web filtering products to monitor the internet use with control over outbound web access and embedded firewall, which offers a security solution to manage access control inside the corporate perimeter firewall. The company also offers life cycle of support and services, such as solution planning, implementation and integration and support services. Secure Computing sells its products to organizations in banking, financial services, healthcare, telecommunications, manufacturing, public utilities and federal and local governments. The company was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

MacKay Life Sciences, Inc. develops medical device and associated diagnostic systems to assist in detecting breast cancer. The company was founded on October 16, 1987 and is headquartered in Wayne, PA.

Imnet Systems, Inc. is used to develops, markets, installs and services electronic information and document management systems for the healthcare industry and other document intensive businesses. The company was located in Alpharetta, GA.

FBL Financial Group, Inc. operates as holding company, which engages in the sale of individual life insurance and annuity products. It operates through the Annuity, and Life Insurance segments. The Annuity segment is consists of fixed rate and indexed annuities and supplementary contracts. The Life Insurance segment is the whole life, term life, and universal life policies which provides benefits upon the death of the insured and may allow the client to build cash value on a tax-deferred basis. The company was founded in1939 and is headquartered in West Des Moines, IA.

LaSalle National Bank is headquartered in Chicago and serves individuals, small businesses, middle market companies and institutions. Their parent company, LaSalle Bank Corporation, is a subsidiary of Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC).

CryoCath Technologies, Inc. manufactures medical equipment. The company was founded by Normand Balthazard and Andre L. Lamotte in 1994 and is headquartered in Montreal, QC.

Crescendo Management LLC (Crescendo Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 1993 by David Spreng, Mitchell Dann and Jeff Tollefson. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.