Donald E. Benson

MassMutual Corporate Investors, Inc. is a closed-end investment company, first offered to the public in 1971, whose shares are traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the trading symbol (MCI). The Trust's share price can be found in the financial section of most newspapers as 'MassCp' or 'MassMuInv' under the New York Stock Exchange listings. The Trust's investment objective is to maintain a portfolio of securities providing a fixed yield and at the same time offering an opportunity for capital gains. The Trust's principal investments are privately placed, below-investment grade, long-term corporate debt obligations with equity features such as warrants, conversion rights, or other equity features and, occasionally, preferred stocks.

MassMutual Participation Investors is a closed-end investment company. The Trust's investment objective is to maximize total return by providing a high level of current income, the potential for growth of income, and capital appreciation. The Trust also invest in publicly traded debt securities (including high yield securities), with an emphasis on those with equity features, and in convertible preferred stocks and, subject to certain limitations, readily marketable equity securities. In addition, the Trust may temporarily invest in high quality, readily marketable securities. Babson Capital Management LLC manages the Trust on a total return basis. MassMutual Participation Investors is headquartered in Springfield, MA.

The Group's principal activity is to provide regional scheduled passenger services. It is a holding company for Mesaba Aviation, Inc. It has an airlines services agreement with Northwest Airlines, Inc. With this agreement, the schedules are coordinated with those of Northwest to facilitate interline connections at the Minneapolis/St. Paul International Airport, Detroit Metropolitan Airport and the Memphis International Airport. It provides its services under the name Mesaba Airlines/Northwest Airlink or Mesaba Airlines/Northwest Jet Airlink. It operated flights to 102 cities in United States and Canada from Northwest's hub airports.

The Group's principal activity is to provide commercial banking services through four banking offices in Los Angeles. It operates through two bank subsidiaries: Mercantile National Bank and South Bay Bank, N.A. It serves small to medium-sized businesses in the niche markets of entertainment, healthcare, business banking, and community-based nonprofit organizations. It also serves business executives, professionals and other individuals, providing commercial and residential real estate financing, real estate construction financing and commercial lending, and consumer and home equity loans. The lending products include revolving lines of credit, term loans, commercial real estate loans, construction loans and consumer and home equity loans. It offers a full range of loan, deposit and investment products for specific customer needs and are offered with highly personalized service. It operates throughout the United States.

First California Financial Group, Inc. operates as a holding company for First California Bank. First California serves the comprehensive financial needs of small and middle size businesses and high net worth individuals throughout Southern California. Its deposit products comprise of non-interest bearing demand deposits, interest checking, savings accounts, time deposits, money market accounts and certificates of deposit. The company was founded on June 7, 2006 and is headquartered in Westlake Village, CA.

Marquette Financial Cos. provides accounts receivable financing to trucking companies. It provides financing products with individualized account management for small to midsized trucking companies across the nation. The company is headquartered in Bloomington, Minnesota.

Minnesota Twins LLC owns and operates a professional baseball team. It markets sports merchandise, tickets, and collectable baseball game items. The company was founded by Calvin R. Griffith on October 26, 1960 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.