David Charles Fondrie

Bouncebacktechnologies.com, Inc. provides marketing, sales and business solutions to the Internet and e-commerce industries. The company through its subsidiary CRC of Tunisia, S.A. leases and operates a casino and 500-seat theatre in Sousse, Tunisia. It was founded in 1969 and is headquartered in Ocean Springs, MS.

Part of Textron, Inc., Ransomes Plc is a British company that manufactures turf care machinery for the golf, commercial and municipal markets. The company is based in Ipswich, UK. Ransomes was acquired by Textron, Inc. on January 30, 1998 for $139.58 million.

Heartland Advisors, Inc. is a mutual fund manager and SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The firm's predecessor was founded in 1983 as an investment advisory subsidiary of a regional brokerage firm, The Milwaukee Co., owned in part by William J. Nasgovitz. In 1984, Mr. Nasgovitz purchased a majority interest in the investment advisory subsidiary from his partners and started managing Heartland's first mutual fund, the Heartland Value Fund. In 1988, Mr. Nasgovitz and his partners sold The Milwaukee Co. to Dain Bosworth. In the same transaction, Mr. Nasgovitz acquired the remaining shares of the investment advisory subsidiary and changed its name to Heartland Advisors, Inc. In 2000, the firm was reorganized into a wholly owned subsidiary of Heartland Holdings, Inc., but it remains a 100% employee-owned independent firm. Heartland Advisors provides investment advice to individual and institutional clients.