Telecommunications
Elandia, Inc. is a U.S. holding company, which serves as a platform for future growth and acquisitions focused exclusively on captive telecommunications and technology market opportunities. The company is focused on identifying growth opportunities in the South Pacific region as well as other developing regions, including new telecommunication licenses, acquisitions and expansion opportunities.
Datec, the company's technology division, provides product sales, professional services and data delivery services through its operations in several South Pacific islands, including Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Samoa and others. Its customers include some of the region's largest companies. It also operates a wireless ISP in Papua New Guinea, where the Swire Group is its partner. The company's telecommunications division, which is operated under the brand name Blue Sky Communications, is the leading provider of wireless telephone services in American Samoa. Using digital GSM technology, it offers local and long-distance telephony services as well as Internet and Web-hosting services to over 17,000 subscribers.
Travel and Leisure
American Leisure Holdings, Inc. is a fully integrated travel and leisure industry company pursuing the global integration of travel services and destination resort development. With key operations in Orlando, Florida, the company is creating a landmark vacation destination, Sonesta's Tierra del Sol Resort. Featuring 972 vacation townhomes and condominiums being constructed around a lavish, "best-in-class" entertainment and amenity package, Tierra del Sol encompasses a 122-acre site within 10 miles of Walt Disney World. In addition to the development and sale of the property, affiliates will offer management and other services and expect to maintain a significant, ongoing role in the future of Tierra del Sol and other planned resort communities.
The company's travel division operates Hickory Travel Systems, Inc., a global travel distribution network facilitating billions of dollars in annual travel spending that provides key assistance to more than 300 travel agencies worldwide regarding their purchasing decisions. TraveLeaders, a major U.S. travel agency specializing in premium corporate travel services, has a client base that includes Ryder, Waste Management, Greenberg Traurig and many other major corporations. The company's vision is to expand its travel division into a uniquely successful distribution network operating throughout the United States and with related business interests on an international basis.
Leisure Products Manufacturing
ForeFront Holdings, Inc. is a leading supplier of golf accessory products and services. The company and its subsidiaries have been designing, manufacturing and marketing premium-quality golf accessory products since 1907 and currently owns the Datrek, Burton and Miller Golf brands while carrying licensing agreements with the NCAA, NFL/Wilson Sporting Goods, PGA Tour, LPGA, Champions Tour, Nationwide Tour and the Ryder Cup. The company services over 8,500 points-of-sale through multiple distribution channels offering a wide selection of products and value-added services representing multiple golf industry brands.
Health Care Technology Services
Health System Solutions, Inc. designs, develops, markets, sells and supports both Web-based and licensed management information, as well as business intelligence technology systems and related services that assist home health care companies. These services help such companies to more effectively manage the clinical, operational and financial aspects of their business and compete effectively in the Prospective Payment System and managed care environments. The company's architecture and fee structure enable its customers to rapidly and cost-effectively implement its systems for a modest transactional fee, which is charged when a customer uses the programs to process patient clinical assessments.
Business Services
Superior Galleries, Inc. is a leading provider of rare coins and fine collectibles. The company sells coins through auctions, retail sales, direct-to-consumer sales and wholesale efforts. Founded in 1930, Superior's auction division has become one of the oldest and most successful auction houses in the industry by selling at highly respected venues throughout the country and via numerous live Internet auctions.
The company sells its products at its gallery in Beverly Hills, as well as through its sales representatives, on the Internet, through third-party Web sites such as eBay, through the company's own Web site at SGBH.com and through various direct-to-consumer efforts, such as television and direct marketing.
The company has signed a definitive agreement to merge with DGSE, a jewelry and coin retailer and exchange.
Real Estate
Spring Creek Ranch Club, LLC & Related Companies, includes a Jack Nicklaus signature series designed golf course that is situated on 320 natural, unspoiled acres located 30 miles east of Memphis. Spring Creek Ranch is a member of the Audubon Conservation Preserve and was designed to preserve the natural wetlands, wildlife habitat and surrounding ecosystems. Currently, there is a state-of-the-art clubhouse under construction. Additionally, Spring Creek Ranch–related entities own over 500 acres surrounding the golf course that will be part of a master-planned residential development. Spring Creek Ranch hopes to host a PGA Tour event sometime in the near future.
Media and Entertainment
The Ultimate Gift Experience was formed for the purpose of producing and distributing a motion picture titled The Ultimate Gift based on a book by the same name. It is a modern-day parable designed to teach fundamental life principles. The cast included Drew Fuller, James Garner, Bill Cobbs, Lee Meriwether, Brian Dennehy and others. The movie was released March 9, 2007.
Business Services
Caribbean Media Group, Ltd. operates a state-of-the-art call center facility in the island of Antigua. CMG is a multi-client hybrid captive facility serving Fortune 100 companies and has established a "First Class" physical plant in a convenient location near the airport; a human resource department with internalized payroll processing and recruiting know-how; a training process that produces professional service, sales, and collections agents; and a strong middle management and supervisory team.
The company is in the process of opening an additional facility on the island of St. Kitts in order to accommodate its expanding business demand.
Business Services
Stronghold Technologies, Inc. has developed and markets a comprehensive customer relationship management system for the automobile dealership industry. The company's Dealer Advance suite of software systems has been designed to maximize revenues and reduce operating expenses by effectively capturing a greater percentage of unsold customer prospects and maximizing their "be-back" and closure rates.
Medical Technology
Luminetx Corporation discovers, develops and commercializes bioscience technologies. The company's launch product, the patented VeinViewer is a revolutionary medical imaging device that supports a number of clinical tasks by illuminating vasculature for access or avoidance, regardless of the patient's age, body type or skin tone. Utilizing state-of-the-art optical imaging technology, the VeinViewer allows health practitioners to clearly see accessible vasculature in real time, directly on the surface of the skin. This technology greatly improves vascular access, which is performed over one billion times a year.
Pharmaceutical
Greystone Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a biomedical research and development company that has developed a proprietary, advanced chronic wound care technology for the treatment of non-responsive wounds, particularly in diabetic patients. The company has also developed and deployed a unique system for monitoring diabetic patients and providing them with the knowledge and tools to manage their disease more effectively. The company's goal is to provide tools for cost-effective, efficacious health care, and the information technology to ensure that health care is delivered to those who need it in a timely, efficient manner.
Business-to-Business Services
GoAntiques, Inc. is the largest online fixed-price marketplace for antiques and collectibles in the world, with 1,700 dealers from 29 countries. The company provides technology to member dealers, allowing them to add and display inventory on its Web site and throughout a distribution network that includes Yahoo Shopping, AOL Shopping and BobVila.com. The company is a Titanium PowerSeller on eBay, posting over 40,000 items in 30 or more auctions each month on eBay's Live Auction platform. It has also launched PriceMiner™, an online database with over 20 million art, antiques and collectible prices, available for a monthly subscription fee, which has also been licensed to public library systems.
Media and Entertainment
USFR Media Group is an integrated media entity operating publishing and broadcasting businesses. The company's assets include two well-known Western lifestyle magazines (Cowboys and Indians and Western & English Today), American One Television Network and KTBN (Channel 55) in Houston, Texas.
Financial Services Software
The Open Finance Network (OFN) provides a turnkey open architecture wealth management solution to the independent wealth manager and investment advisor. The solution enables these advisors to scale and reduce overhead while offering integrated wealth and investment services to their clients. Currently, comparable levels of service are either reserved for the ultra-affluent family offices or restricted to closed product centric offerings from large proprietary institutions. The company's next generation solution empowers today's independent advisors to compete at a service level that matches the most advanced proprietary financial institutions in the world while maintaining independence and objectivity.
Telecommunications
Cognigen Networks, Inc. offers a wide range of telecommunications services and related technology products via its Web site. Its marketing engine is fueled by distribution channels that harness a prominent Internet presence and a corps of registered independent agents, along with several affiliate groups, each having its own Web site. They resell the services of industry leaders such as AT&T, Sprint, Talk America, Broadvox, T-Mobile and Verizon.
Medical Technology
Senesco Technologies, Inc. is engaged in the research and development of genetic technology to improve commercial agriculture and to treat major medical conditions in humans. The company's platform technology is based on the identification and characterization of specific genes that are responsible for the aging of plant cells (senescence) and for programmed cell death in humans (apoptosis).
The company is developing its technologies to address multiple opportunities within the $750 billion global commercial agriculture market, including extending the shelf life of perishable plant products, producing larger and leafier crops, increasing crop yields and reducing the harmful effects of crop disease and environmental stress. It is also researching applications of its technologies, which may address the many human diseases associated with blocking or inducing apoptosis, which includes cancer, glaucoma, cardiovascular disease and arthritis.
Media and Entertainment
Third Miracle Production, LLC was formed to produce and distribute a motion picture titled The Third Miracle. The movie is based on a true story about how a team of boys from poverty-stricken Monterrey, Mexico, defied extraordinary odds to become the first foreign team to win the Little League World Series. It tells a tale of how their miracle changed not only their lives but the life of an entire city and their world-weary coach, who gains fame and rediscovers his faith.
Financial Services
Golden Financial Services, Inc. engaged in the origination, processing and selling (to the secondary market with servicing release) of conventional residential, first, second, commercial and conforming mortgage loans. The company has developed important strategic relationships with Freddie Mac, CBA Commercial and other mortgage investors, allowing it a greater degree of independence from the local secondary market.
Software
Wirespec, based in Miami, Florida, has developed a B2B software product for the structured cabling solutions space. The company is in dormant status pending a buyer for its software.
Consumer
International Cosmetics Marketing, Inc.
(d.b.a. Beverly Sassoon & Company) was engaged in the sales and marketing of personal care products and cosmetics utilizing the Beverly Sassoon name. The company, which had an agreement with Beverly and Elan Sassoon, the former wife and the son of Vidal Sassoon, has ceased operations given the failure to effectively market these products.
Home-Building
PanaSteel Building Materials, Inc. manufactures and panelizes pre-engineered, light-gauge, steel-framed structures for residential and commercial builders. Using a customized turnkey approach to framing, the company offers builders a designed-to-spec, steel-frame package that can be erected on the jobsite within days. Each structure is prefabricated at a PanaSteel plant and delivered to the jobsite as panels are ready for installation, greatly streamlining the construction process.
Food and Beverage Retail
The Majestic Grille is a 1940s-style neighborhood bistro specializing in steak, premium meats and seafood. It is located in the heart of downtown Memphis in the original 1913 Majestic Theater. Today, it is more than 10,000 square feet and comfortably seats over 200 diners.
Media and Entertainment
The List Productions, LLC, was formed to develop, finance, produce and exploit a picture titled The List, based on a novel by the same name. The movie is an inspirational message of how good triumphs over evil through the power of prevailing prayer.
Retail
Fybeca is the leading and largest drug store chain in Ecuador, with
over 150 points-of-sale throughout the country.
Diversified Private Equity Fund
Louisiana Ventures, L.P. is a venture capital fund established to invest in early-stage companies located in, or that otherwise hold out the potential of direct benefits for the citizens
of, the state of Louisiana.
Medical Technology Private Equity Fund
Memphis Bio-Med Ventures II, L.P. is a venture capital fund established to invest in medical device and biotechnology startups. It has a particular interest in companies developing product solutions for musculoskeletal disease.
Sports Franchise
The Washington Nationals is the major league baseball team based in Washington, D.C., which was recently purchased from Major League Baseball by the Lerner Group and minority partners. Stanford joined the minority partner group in this transaction.
Technology Private Equity
Catalyst Private Equity Partners II, L.P. is a late-stage, Israeli private equity fund, which is a successor to Catalyst Fund L.P., a top performer among all vintage 2000 Israeli VC funds. The fund will focus on investing in select Israeli and Israel-related companies, typically with a focus on the high-tech sector.