• GFI invests in profitable, growing companies with innovative products and services used in the distribution, marketing, and end use of gas and electricity.
• GFI's portfolio comprises interests in industry-leading companies whose total value exceeds $2.5 billion assembled through over fifty transactions.
• GFI's principals and associates offer a wealth of energy industry experience and contacts along with a solid track record of operational management support for growing businesses.
• GFI offers flexible financing to support business growth, liquidity for existing owners, and management's equity objectives.

• Demand Management - Reducing or altering energy consumption through the provision of equipment, software or services.
• Transmission and Distribution Optimization - Increasing the capacity and improving the efficiency of energy transmission and distribution systems.
• Cleaner Generation - Providing technologies and services to clean traditional power generation and increase utilization of alternatives.
• Energy Measurement and Control - Measuring and managing the nature and amounts of energy consumed.
• Power Quality/Power Conversion - Evaluating and improving the quality of power received from energy suppliers.
• Information Systems and Transaction Support - Supporting competitive power market transactions and portfolio management.

• Caminus Corporation: (Nasdaq: CAMZ): New York; London; Houston; Dallas; Seattle; Cambridge, England – Provides software technology, decision support, and comprehensive consulting services to the power and gas trading industry.
  
  
• Cannon Technologies, Inc: Minneapolis, MN – Develops and sells measurement and control products aimed at helping utilities improve the utilization, reliability and cost effectiveness of their transmission and distribution systems.
  
  
• Cherokee International: (Nasdaq: CHRK): Tustin and Irvine CA; Mexico; India – Designer and manufacturer of custom power supplies for telecommunications, networking, high-end workstation, and other electronic equipment industries.
  
  
• Elgar Electronics Corporation: San Diego, CA – Leader in the design and manufacture of AC and DC programmable power supplies.
  
  
• Elgin National Industries, Inc.: Downers Grove, IL – Provides engineering and construction services and equipment for coal fired power plants and at mining and other bulk materials handling sites; also manufactures a range of specialty fasteners.
  
  
• Genscape, Inc.: Louisville, KY – Collects, analyzes, and disseminates real time information about the condition of power plants and transmission lines for use by power traders, system operators, and regulators throughout North America and Europe.
  
  
• GoodCents: Atlanta, GA – Develops and implements energy efficiency and demand response programs for electric utilities.
  
  
• GT Solar Incorporated: Merrimack, NH – Designs, manufactures and installs turnkey manufacturing lines for solar wafers, cells and modules, plus polysilicon reactors.
  
  
• InfraSource Incorporated: Aston, PA – Designs, engineers, and constructs high voltage substations, aerial and underground transmission and distribution facilities, and operates a dark fiber leasing business.
  
  
• LineSoft Corporation: Spokane, WA – Leading provider of software and contract services that utilities need to design, construct, and manage electrical transmission and distribution systems.
  
  
• LODESTAR Corporation: Peabody, MA – Provides complex billing and other transaction support software to the electricity industry.
  
  
• Longhorn Pipeline: Dallas, TX – Owner of petroleum pipeline providing link from Texas refineries to Southwest U.S. retail markets.
  
  
• NORESCO: Westborough, MA – Designs, constructs, finances and operates solutions for energy efficiency capital projects primarily to government and institutional customers.
  
  
• Power Measurement: Saanichton (Victoria), BC, Canada – Leading provider of energy management systems including equipment, software, and services that measure, evaluate, and manage power consumption and conditions.
  
  
• RealEnergy, Inc.: Los Angeles; New York – The Company installs, owns, and operates on-site generation equipment/systems in Class A office buildings, hotels, and other commercial sites.
  
  
• Smart Systems International, Inc.: Las Vegas, NV – Designs and sells in-room energy management systems for hotels, schools, hospitals, condominia, and the like.
  
  
• Snelson Companies, Inc.: Sedro-Woolley, WA – Constructs and maintains pipelines and associated equipment.
  
  
• SPL WorldGroup, Inc.: San Francisco, London, Paris, Sydney, Melbourne, Manila, and other cities – Provides customer information system, outage management, asset management, and field work force management software.
  
  
• Statordyne LLC: Los Angeles, CA – Holds patents to technology that provide industrial and commercial facilities with continuous, premium quality power without batteries.
  
  
• Trans-Elect, Inc.: Reston, VA – Acquires, upgrades and operates electric transmission systems in North America.
  
  
• Turbine Generator Maintenance, Inc.: Cape Coral, FL – Performs turnkey inspections and repairs on steam turbines, combustion turbines, generators and associated equipment.
  
  
• UtiliQuest, LLC: Atlanta, GA – Identifies and marks electric, gas, telecommunications, cable, water, and other utility underground infrastructure so that contractors can avoid them when excavating.
  
  
• Xantrex Technology Inc.: (Toronto: XTX.TO): Vancouver, BC, Canada; Seattle and Arlington, WA; and Livermore, CA. – One of the world's largest suppliers of inverters and related power electronic components to renewable and distributed energy companies and for the commercial, recreational, and residential markets.

Funds Under Management

GFI is the portfolio manager and co-general partner with Oaktree Capital Management of the $1.02 billion OCM/GFI Power Opportunities Fund II and its predecessor, the $454 million OCM/GFI Power Opportunities Fund. The investors in these pools of committed capital include prominent public and corporate pension funds, insurance companies, foundation and college endowments and high net worth individuals.

People

The five principals of GFI Energy Ventures LLC are Lawrence D. Gilson, Richard K. Landers, Ian A. Schapiro, Andrew G. Osler and J. Bradford Forth. They have held senior positions as officers and advisors to leading energy utilities as well as to electric industry equipment and service suppliers, and important industrial and commercial end-users throughout the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, continental Europe, and Australia. They have worked together for more than a dozen years. The founders have been partners for more than twenty years.

With their extensive energy industry experience, the principals are particularly expert in forecasting the changes which occur in historically regulated industries and the implications of such changes on the value of traditional and non-traditional market participants. They have started, managed, and overseen numerous enterprises.

• Lawrence D. Gilson, Chairman
• Richard K. Landers, Partner
• Ian A. Schapiro, Partner
• Andrew G. Osler, Partner
• J. Bradford Forth, Partner
• R. Chad Van Sweden, Vice President
• Jason J.S. Lee, Vice President
• Matthew P. Cornue, Associate
• Mark McKelvy, Associate
• Anthony H. Bloom, Special Executive Resource
• Brian J. Scanlan, Special Executive Resource
• David R. Helwig, Special Executive Resource
• Raymond E. Meyer, Special Executive Resource
• David M. Stoner, Special Executive Resource

• Demand Management - Reducing or altering energy consumption through the provision of equipment, software or services.
• Transmission and Distribution Optimization - Improving the efficiency, capacity and cost effective management of energy transmission and distribution systems.
• Cleaner Generation – Reducing pollution from traditional power generation and facilitating the expanded commercial use of renewable, alternative generation.
• Energy Measurement and Control - Measuring and managing the nature and amounts of energy generated, delivered and consumed in ways that support network management, increasingly complex billing and energy conservation objectives.
• Power Quality/Power Conversion - Meeting the increasingly demanding and distinctive power supply needs of industrial and commercial customers for whom the form, quality, and availability of power is central to business operations.
• Information Systems and Transaction Support - Providing the information and transaction support needed to achieve commercial and public policy goals in a competitive energy market from the perspectives of electricity and natural gas suppliers, marketers, transporters, market makers, consumers, and regulators.