Sidney R. Knafel

General American Investors Co., Inc. is a closed-end mutual fund, which engages in managing a global portfolio of investments, consisting mainly of U.S. securities, and also some international and private securities. Its objective is long-term capital appreciation through investment in companies with above average growth potential. The company was founded in 1927 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

BioReliance Corp. provides testing and manufacturing services to pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical companies. It provides outsourced services to customers from most healthcare disciplines, including pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical and chemical companies in the world. The firm also provides safety testing services focused on the rapidly growing biologics sector of the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. The company enables emerging and clinical stage companies who may lack the staff, expertise and financial resources to conduct many aspects of product development in-house. BioReliance was founded by Charles E. Bender in 1947 and is headquartered in Rockville, MD.

Insight Communications Co., Inc. provided digital cable, broadband and phone services. It offered bundled, video, Internet and voice telephony services to residential and business customers and delivers news and information network. The company was founded in 1985 and was headquartered in New York, NY.

Penthera Partners, Inc. is a holding company, which engages in the provision of software, systems, and services for delivering video and audio content to mobile devices. The firm's main product is Cache&Carry, which is a software toolkit that manages the download of large videos from the Cloud to a smartphones and tablets. Its customers include TV distributors, cable networks, device manufacturers, and video producers. The company was founded by Laura Perella, Adam L. Berger and, Samuel Leinhardt in 2005 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.

Part of Pfizer Inc., VirtualScopics New York LLC is a private company that provides advanced image-based biomarker analytic technology and services. The company is based in Pittsford, NY. VirtualScopics New York was acquired by Pfizer Inc. on July 22, 2002.

Vocollect, Inc. develops and manufactures voice solutions for mobile workers. Its dynamic and flexible solutions integrate with all major warehouse management systems (WMS) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, including SAP and support the industry's leading mobile device solutions. The firm expands safety mandates and regulatory requirements, such as the FDA bioterrorism act requirements. The company was founded on July 27, 1987 by Roger Byford, Larry Sweeney and Bob Salicce and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.

The Frick Collection operates as an art museum. The non-profit company is based in New York, NY.

VirtualScopics, Inc. provides quantitative imaging solutions currently serving the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device industries. It provides image analysis software tools and applications which are used in detecting and measuring specific anatomical structures and metabolic activity using medical images. The company's therapeutic area expertise includes oncology, rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, neurology, cardiovascular, muscle and fat measurements and COPD studies utilizing MRI, PET, CT, Ultrasound and X-Ray imaging modalities. VirtualScopics was founded by Saara Totterman, Kevin J. Parker, Jose Tamez-Pena and Edward Ashton in July 2000 and is headquartered in Rochester, NY.