Sponsors
HOST SPONSORS
The Jordan, Edmiston Group, Inc. (JEGI), the leading investment bank for media, information, marketing, and technology, celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2012. Since 1987, JEGI has completed more than 500 M&A transactions for global corporations, middle-market and emerging companies, entrepreneurs, and PE/VC firms. Recent transactions include the sale of DMGT’s Evanta, a leading producer of conferences for C-suite executives, to Leeds Equity; ePrize, a digital engagement leader in mobile, social and web loyalty campaigns, to Catterton; Northstar Travel, a leading b2b information company for the travel industry, to Wicks Group; Conversen, a SaaS marketing platform, to Experian; and many others. For more information, visit www.jegi.com or contact Adam Gross, CMO at 212-754-0710 or adamg@jegi.com.
Veronis Suhler Stevenson is a leading private investment firm that invests in the information, education, media, marketing and business services industries in North America and Europe. VSS provides capital for buyouts, recapitalizations, growth financings and strategic acquisitions to middle market companies and management teams with the goal of building companies organically and through a focused add-on acquisition program. VSS makes privately-negotiated investments across the capital structure and has the ability to invest in situations requiring control or non-control equity, mezzanine securities, and senior secured debt. Since 1987, VSS has managed six private investment funds with capital commitments totaling over $3 billion, including four equity funds and two structured capital funds. To date, VSS funds have invested in 68 platform companies, which have together completed over 320 add-on acquisitions resulting in a portfolio. The team of investment professionals at VSS is comprised of former operating executives as well as former investment bankers, consultants and lawyers, all of whom have worked within our targeted industries for a number of years. VSS is well known for its expertise in its targeted industries and is viewed as a value added investor. The company’s website is www.vss.com.
PATRON SPONSOR
Morgan Lewis provides comprehensive corporate, transactional, litigation, and regulatory legal sevices to clients of all sizes - from global Fortune 100 companies to just-conceived start-ups - across all major industries. We craft and execute business and industry-specific strategies that align with today's evolvng economic and regulatory conditions, and that address the full scope of our clients' challenges and opportunities in the courtroom, in the boardroom, within the workforce, and in government and policy matters.
The Parthenon Group is a leading advisory firm focused on strategy consulting, with offices in Boston, London, Mumbai, San Francisco, and Shanghai. Since its inception in 1991, the firm has embraced a unique approach to strategic advisory services built on long-term client relationships, a willingness to share risk, an entrepreneurial spirit, and customized insights. This unique approach has established the firm as the strategic advisor of choice for CEOs and business leaders of Global 1000 corporations, high-potential growth companies, private equity firms, educational institutions, and healthcare organizations.
INDUSTRY SPONSOR
Innovation Capital Advisors, LLC is an early-stage venture capital management firm managing funds that invest in rapidly growing businesses in the Mid-Atlantic states. We focus our investment activities in information technology; ecommerce technology, software; business information services related to the legal, financial services and manufacturing industries; chemicals and materials; and, electronic materials and devices.
The Managing Principal of Innovation Capital Advisors is also the founder of FashInvest, ARC Angel Fund, and Early Stage East, the largest venture conference specifically for early stage companies. For more information on Early Stage East click here.
