Richard B. Nash

Global Telesystems Group Inc.'s principal activity is to provide data, Internet and borderless broadband services across Europe, serving businesses and carriers in European countries with a range of broadband, Internet/IP and voice services. It operates cross border fiber optic network and a Tier-1 IP backbone (Ebone). The company's majority owned subsidiary, Golden Telecom, Inc., offers a variety of fixed-line and mobile telecommunications services in Russia, Ukraine and other former Soviet nations. The company was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in Arlington, VA.

Arlington Asset Investment Corp. engages in the acquisition and holding a portfolio of residential mortgage-backed securities. Its portfolio consists of agency mortgage-backed securities and mortgage credit investments. The company was founded by Eric Francis Billings and William Russel Ramsey in 1989 and is headquartered in McLean, VA.

GXS, Inc. provides cloud-based software and services. The company was founded in 1967 and is headquartered in Baltimore, MD.

FBR & Co. provides investment banking, merger and acquisition advisory, institutional brokerage and research services through its subsidiaries. The company operates through two segments: Capital Markets and Principal Investing. The Capital Markets segment includes investment banking, institutional brokerage and research. It also provides investment banking services, including capital raising and financial advisory services for its corporate issuer clients, and institutional brokerage services including sales, trading, research, and securities lending services to its institutional investor clients. The Principal Investing segment activities consist primarily of investments in merchant banking and other equity investments, investment funds and corporate debt investments. The company was founded in June 2006 and is headquartered in Arlington, VA.

Intelsat US LLC engages in the provision of satellite telecommunication services. It offers commercial aircraft, business jet, and aeronautical connectivity; land mobile; maritime; satellite, fiber, and teleport; consulting; and enterprise networking services. The company was founded in 1964 and is headquartered in McLean, VA.

GXS Worldwide, Inc. engages in providing business to business eCommerce integration solutions. It offers transaction management infrastructure products and services that enable companies to electronically exchange business documents. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Gaithersburg, MD.

GXS is a leading global provider of e-commerce solutions that facilitate the integration, synchronization and collaboration. The company operates a platform for global network services, highly reliable and secure, which enables more than 40 000 companies, including more than 75 percent of the 500 companies ranked by Fortune magazine, to transact business in real time. It offers a wide range of solutions that help businesses of all sizes connect with their international trading partners to synchronize product information and pricing, optimize inventory levels and demand forecasts and accelerate the performance of their global supply chains. GXS offers an extensive range of features and an unparalleled global platform to ensure that no partner is helpless. In June 2002, GXS was sold by General Electric Company (GE) to Francisco Partners and operates today as an independent company. GE retains a minority stake in GXS. With over $ 2.5 billion in committed capital, Francisco Partners is a private equity fund specializing in technology, the world's largest.

GXS Ltd. provides on-demand supply chain management and ecommerce solutions. Its services include managed, transact messaging, expert operations, direct integration, active applications, edge software and GXS freeway EDI software. The company was founded in 1967 and is headquartered in Sunbury-on-Thames, the United Kingdom.