About Porter
Our Team
Investors Background
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Porter Airlines Inc.is a wholly-owned subsidiary of privately-held Porter Aviation
Holdings Inc.
Institutional investors in Porter Aviation Holdings Inc. include:
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EdgeStone Capital Partners has managed over $2 billion of private capital
on behalf of institutional and high net worth clients. EdgeStone provides capital,
strategic direction and business and financial advice to help promising mid-market
and early-stage companies achieve their full potential. EdgeStone leverages the
resources of its broad business network and ensures an alignment of interests to
achieve superior returns for all stakeholders. EdgeStone invests in a variety of
carefully selected companies in the middle-market and early stage sectors, offering
above average long-term potential. EdgeStone is one of Canada’s largest independent
private capital managers and is one of the principal entities of the GMP Capital Trust Group.
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Borealis Infrastructure is a Canadian corporation that was formed in 1998 by the Ontario
Municipal Employees Retirement System (OMERS) to originate structure, finance and
manage infrastructure assets, principally on behalf of OMERS, but also on behalf
of other pension funds. OMERS, one of Canada’s largest pension organizations
with current net assets of approximately C$40 billion and an AAA rating by Standard
& Poor’s, provides pensions for more than 300,000 former and current employees
of Ontario municipalities, local boards, public utilities and school boards (non-teaching
staff).
Borealis has invested or committed C$5.4 billion of equity on behalf of OMERS in
infrastructure assets domestically and internationally in a range of sectors including
healthcare, energy, and transportation.
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GE Asset Management Incorporated (GEAMI) is a global investment management firm wholly-owned by General Electric Company, a diversified technology,
media and financial services company. GEAM and its predecessor organizations have
been managing investments for GE's U.S. employee pension and benefits plans for
more than 70 years. Today, the firm manages money for hundreds of institutional
clients and hundreds of thousands of individual mutual fund investors across a wide
variety of strategies, with total assets under management of $192 billion as of
3/31/06. GEAM International Private Equity Fund is a US$436 million limited partnership
sponsored by GEAM to make investments in non-U.S. private equity opportunities.
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Dancap Private Equity Inc. (www.dancap.ca)
invests its own funds in mid-market Canadian businesses from a diverse range of
industries and provides Private Equity financing for growth, acquisitions and refinancing
opportunities. Through a $50 Million investment base, Dancap invests between $1 Million and $5 Million in Private Equity opportunities. Dancap’s current portfolio
consists of direct Subordinated-Debt, Equity and Syndicated Equity investments.
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