	Wynnefield Capital, Inc., is an employee-owned hedge fund founded in 1992 by Nelson Obus and Joshua Landes. The fund is a value investor, specializing in U.S. small-cap companies with a business- or industry-specific catalyst. It employs long and short strategies and conducts in-house research in making its investments. The fund has been an activist investor with a number of companies, including Cornell Companies, Crown Crafts, Breeze-Eastern, MAM Software, Chiquita Brands, and Omega Protein.