NAVIGATION CAPITAL PARTNERS

Navigation Capital Partners ("NCP") is an Atlanta-based private equity firm that invests in lower middle market niche manufacturing and services businesses located in the Southeast, Mid-Atlantic and Midwest United States. With the backing of Goldman Sachs, NCP acquired the private equity portfolio of Mellon Ventures in December 2006. The managers of NCP formerly founded and managed Mellon Ventures, the private equity investment arm of Mellon Financial Corporation. Mellon Ventures invested over $1.4 billion in private equity investments between 1995 and 2006. The NCP team has worked together for an average of eight years and collectively has over 75 years of direct private equity investing experience. NCP manages $375 million of invested and committed capital.