CMC Biologics A/S

CMC Biologics A/S (www.cmcbio.com)
CMC Biologics A/S("CMC") is a Contract Manufacturing Organization ("CMO") located in Denmark, providing high value-added services to the world's pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical industries. These services include process development, scale-up, and production of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient ("API") protein material for pre-clinical, phase I, II, III and smaller commercial quantities. CMC was founded in March 2001 and today has strong managerial, commercial and scientific teams. In late 2003, CMC completed its state-of-the-art, 8,500m² biopharmaceutical pilot plant in Gladsaxe (just outside Copenhagen) and production began at the new facility in Q2 2004. Today, the Company employs more than 150 staff and services large, medium-sized and small biologics companies in the US and Europe.

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PacketFront (www.packetfront.com)
PacketFront develops and sells unique integrated end-to-end solutions for providing Ethernet-based broadband services (up to 100 Mbps) (including "triple-play") over an IP-based fibre network for residential users and small businesses. The Company was established in Q2 2001 by a core team of engineers from B2 Bregbandsbolaget, the Swedish IP-based operator, and sales executives from Cisco. PacketFront's solutions enable operators to offer differentiated service packages as well as pay-on-demand services to end-users regulated by conditional access service provisioning. PacketFront's customers are typically the owners of the last-mile rights-of-way ie. Local utility distribution companies, building owners and municipalities, who install Ethernet-based networks for their customers. The Company has turnover of approximately $30 million and is profitable.

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Prenax (www.prenax.com)
Prenax helps organisations in all sectors with the acquisition, access and management of all print and online information, including journals, newspapers, databases, memberships and books. Prenax has over 1,200 customers, primarily in the financial, media, IT and pharmaceutical industries. These businesses have a great need for a wide variety of publications, making the administration regarding subscriptions quite considerable. By taking complete responsibility for the administrative tasks related to subscriptions, Prenax saves its customers time and money. The Prenax service includes customized management reports, consolidated invoicing and a single point of contact for all subscriptions. Prenax provides 24 hour, 7-day access to a database of over 250,000 titles from all over the world. The company was established in 1991 and is headquartered in Sweden. It also has offices in the United Kingdom, France, and the United States. Today the Company has revenues over $100 million and is profitable.

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Transmode Holding (www.transmode.com)
Transmode is a leading provider of optical networking solutions for transport of data, voice and video traffic, based on CWDM and DWDM technology (Coarse/Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing).  Transmode's unique Intelligent WDM (iWDM™) approach has lead to widespread deployment of over 10000 systems in a customer base consisting of more than 250 fixed and mobile network operators, service providers, large enterprises and public institutions across Europe, the Americas and Asia.  Transmode's comprehensive product portfolio and strong global organization enable its customers to grow the capacity and to improve service level of their regional, metro and metro access networks, on a cost-efficient basis without compromising on functionality. Today the Company has revenues of close to $100 million and is profitable.

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Whatsonwhen (www.whatsonwhen.com)
Whatsonwhen ("WoW") is the leading UK multi-platform publishing company specialised in time and location specific leisure, entertainment and professional events content (20,000 leisure and 1,500 business event articles in 130 countries). The company sells factual and editorial content primarily to travel companies, carriers, portals, mobile operators, ISPs and travel guide companies. WoW licenses its content through co-branded hosted solutions or XML feeds across all platforms (e.g. interactive TV, wireless, internet, print, and video) to its clients. The company's revenues consist of (i) licensing its proprietary content, (ii) bespoke content written for clients, (iii) technical and event-related consultancy. WoW was founded in May 1999; the site was launched in October 1999 and the Company currently employs 20 full-time staff in London and a network of freelance journalists around the world. The Company was successfully sold to John Wiley & Sons Inc. in October 2006.

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