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Acosta
Jacksonville, FL
CEO: Robert Hill, Jr.
Year of Investment: 2011
Acosta is the largest sales-and-marketing agency (SMA) in the U.S., providing outsourced sales, marketing and merchandising services to manufacturers, suppliers, and producers of consumer packaged goods (CPG). With more than 17,000 associates in 65 locations throughout the U.S. and Canada, Acosta represents the majority of the #1 and #2 brands in the CPG industry today. Through its headquarters sales service, Acosta, on behalf of its CPG customers, directly sells new and existing items to retailers such as Kroger and Safeway, and provides services such as the negotiation of price and volume levels. In its retail services offering, Acosta provides in-store stocking and optimal shelf space location/exposure to maximize sales of its clients' products.
www.acosta.com
Agencyport Software
Boston, MA and London, UK
Co-CEOs: Eric Harnden, Steve Hauck
Year of Investment: 2011
Agencyport Software is a leading provider of core application software systems to over 100 different property and casualty ("P&C") insurance carriers, brokers and agents in the U.S. and Europe, including six of the ten largest P&C insurance carriers in the world.
www.agencyport.com
Aramark Corporation
Philadelphia, PA
CEO: Joseph Neubauer
Year of Investment: 2007
Aramark Corporation is a leader in professional services, providing award-winning food services, facilities management, and uniform and career apparel to healthcare institutions, universities and school districts, stadiums and arenas, businesses and government departments and agencies in 18 countries around the world. Aramark is the largest food and facilities service company in North America and is among the top three in most of the other countries in which it operates. The Company's uniform and career apparel business is the second largest in the U.S. and provides both rental and direct marketing services.
www.aramark.com
Ariel Holdings
Hamilton, Bermuda
CEO: Tom Hulst
Chairman: George Rivaz
Year of Investment: 2005
Ariel Holdings Ltd. ("Ariel") is a Bermuda-based insurance company formed in December 2005 to take advantage of emerging opportunities in the worldwide property casualty insurance market. Ariel participates in both the specialty insurance and reinsurance markets across numerous lines of business including property, marine and professional liability. Ariel has been able to capitalize on strong market conditions in these lines of business and leverage its Bermuda platform, infrastructure and managements's expertise.
www.arielre.com
Ceridian Corporation
Minneapolis, MN
CEO: Stuart C. Harvey, Jr.
Year of Investment: 2007
Ceridian Corporation is a major provider of outsourced processing services to a diverse customer base in a wide range of industries. Ceridian operates through three principal business segments, Human Resource Solutions ("HRS"), Comdata and Stored Value Solutions ("SVS").
HRS is one of the three largest payroll processing companies in the U.S. and one of the two largest in Canada. Comdata is the largest provider of fleet payment cards and related services to the U.S. long-distance trucking industry. SVC is a leading provider of stored value cards (such as gift cards) to U.S. retailers.
www.ceridian.com
Clear Channel Communications
San Antonio, TX
CEO: Robert Pittman
Year of Investment: 2008
Clear Channel is the world's largest outdoor media and radio company. It has an unmatched portfolio of radio stations and outdoor advertising assets with leading market positions in local communities across the United States and throughout the world.
Clear Channel owns or leases over one million displays in over 40 countries across five continents, including key positions in attractive international growth markets.
Clear Channel's leading portfolio of radio stations is focused on serving local communities across the U.S. with an audience of more than 238 million listeners choosing Clear Channel Radio programming each month.
www.clearchannel.com
Cumulus Media
Atlanta, GA
CEO: Lewis W. Dickey, Jr.
Year of Investment: 2006
Cumulus Media (NASDAQ: CMLS) is the largest pure-play radio broadcaster in the United States with 570 stations in 120 U.S. cities and a fully-distributed network serving over 4,500 affiliates nationwide. The company's radio and digital brands target numerous large and demographically-distinct audiences in each of these markets. Cumulus Media strives to create the next generation radio broadcasting enterprise, based on great people and technological excellence that will provide high quality, local programming choices for Cumulus listeners, and targeted audiences with disposable income and buying preferences for its advertisers.
www.cumulus.com
Dunkin' Brands
Canton, MA
CEO: Nigel Travis
Year of Investment: 2006
Dunkin' Brands is a leading quick service restaurant franchisor of the Dunkin' Donuts (coffee), Baskin-Robbins (ice cream). Based in Canton, MA, the company has over 16,000 points of distribution in 45 countries.
www.dunkinbrands.com
Fidelity National Information Services
Jacksonville, FL
CEO: Frank R. Martire
Year of Investment: 2005
FIS is a leading provider of data processing, payment, risk management and card issuing services to financial institutions. FIS services over 14,000 financial institutions in over 90 countries worldwide. FIS maintains processing and technology relationships with 40 of the top 50 global banks, including 9 of the top 10 and has approximately 30,000 employees worldwide. FIS operates in three business segments: Financial Solutions, Payment Solutions, and International.
www.fidelityinfoservices.com
First BanCorp
San Juan, Puerto Rico
CEO: Aurelio Alemán-Bermudez
Year of Investment: 2011
First BanCorp is a Puerto-Rico based financial holding company offering commercial banking, residential mortgage loan, finance lease, personal loan, small loan, auto loan, insurance, and broker dealer products and services to retail, commercial, and institutional customers primarily in Puerto Rico, and to a lesser extent in the U.S. and British Virgin Islands and Florida.
www.firstbankpr.com
Grupo Corporativo Ono
Madrid, Spain
CEO: Rosalia Portela
Year of Investment: 2005
Ono is the leading cable provider of telephony, broadband Internet and Pay TV services in Spain, passing over 7.0 million homes with its network. The Company is the only national cable operator with a franchise area, and covers approximately 84% of Spanish homes. Ono also offers various voice, data and video-related services to over 69,000 small and medium business customers.
www.ono.es
Intermedix Corporation
Fort Lauderdale, FL
CEO: Doug Shamon
Year of Investment: 2010
Intermedix Corporation is a national provider of technology-based business services to the emergency healthcare industry. The Company provides revenue cycle management ("RCM") services and technology solutions to emergency department ("ED") physician groups, emergency medical services ("EMS") agencies and public health agencies throughout the United States.
www.intermedix.com
inVentiv Health
Burlington, MA
CEO: Paul M. Meister
Year of Investment: 2010
inVentiv Health, Inc. is a leading global provider of results-driven clinical, consulting and commercial services to the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries. inVentiv's full suite of marketing, sales, clinical development and post-approval solutions drive speed and effectiveness across all phases of the product lifecycle, leading to quicker development and superior results throughout product launch and commercialization. inVentiv's client roster includes more than 400 pharmaceutical, biotech and life sciences companies.
www.inventivhealth.com
Michael Foods
Minnetonka, MN
CEO: James E. Dwyer, Jr.
Year of Investment: 2003
Michael Foods is a diversified producer and distributor of value-added egg and refrigerated potato products to the food service, retail and industrial ingredient markets. The company holds a leading market position across each of its core products. Largest customers include Sysco, US Foodservice, Burger King and General Mills.
www.michaelfoods.com
MoneyGram International, Inc.
Dallas, TX
CEO: Pam Patsley
Year of Investment: 2008
MoneyGram is a leading global payment services company. MoneyGram's primary business segment, Global Funds Transfer, provides money transfer services, walk-in and electronic bill payment services and money orders to unbanked, underbanked and convenience users worldwide.
www.moneygram.com
The Nielsen Company
New York, NY and Harlem, The Netherlands
CEO: David Calhoun
Year of Investment: 2006
The Nielsen Company ("Nielsen") is a leading global information and measurement company, delivering critical media and marketing information, analytics and industry expertise about what consumers "Watch" (consumer interaction with television, online and mobile) and what consumers "Buy" on a global and local basis.
Nielsen is active in more than 100 countries and employs nearly 34,000 individuals.
www.nielsen.com
Sterling Financial Corporation
Spokane, Washington
CEO: J. Gregory Seibly
Year of Investment: 2010
Sterling Financial Corporation is a bank holding company, with Sterling Savings Bank as its principal operating subsidiary. Sterling is one of the largest commercial banks headquartered in the Pacific Northwest, offering commercial banking products and services, mortgage lending, construction financing and investment products to individuals, small businesses, commercial organizations and corporations.
Sterling operates 178 branches in five states.
www.sterlingfinancialcorporation-spokane.com
Systems Maintenance Services
Charlotte, North Carolina
CEO: Donald Doctor
Year of Investment: 2010
Systems Maintenance Services (“SMS”) is a leading independent provider of managed IT maintenance services to corporations for hardware infrastructure. SMS provides multi-platform maintenance on OEM server, mainframe and storage hardware with a network of 50+ service centers in US and Canada.
www.sysmaint.com/
Univision
New York, NY
CEO: Randy Falco
Year of Investment: 2007
Univision Communications is the leading Spanish-language ("SL") media company in the United States, with the #1 market position in each of its three business segments: Television, Radio, and Internet. The Company's operations include the Univision and TeleFutura networks which are the #1 and #2 SL television networks, respectively; the Galavision network which is the #1 SL cable network; the #1 SL television station group; the #1 SL radio broadcaster; and the #1 SL internet portal, Univision.com.
www.univision.net
Warner Chilcott
Rockaway, NJ
CEO: Roger M. Boissonneault
Year of Investment: 2005
Warner Chilcott is a leading specialty pharmaceutical company focused on marketing, developing and manufacturing branded prescription pharmaceutical products in the women’s healthcare, dermatology, and urology therapeutic categories.
www.warnerchilcott.com
West Corporation
Omaha, NE
CEO: Thomas B. Barker
Year of Investment: 2006
West Corporation is a leading provider of outsourced communication solutions to many of the world's largest companies, organizations and government agencies. West helps its clients communicate effectively, maximize the value of their customers relationships and drive greater profitability from every interaction. The Company's integrated suite of customized solutions includes customer acquisition, customer care, automated voice services, emergency communications, conferencing and accounts receivable management services.
www.west.com
