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Court Square

Court Square Capital Partners is a private equity and venture capital firm. The firm does not consider investments in the alcohol and tobacco, gambling, finance, real estate sectors, and start-up company sectors. It has a generalist approach though prefers to make investments in companies engaged in the building products, business services, chemicals, consumer products, food products and services, healthcare, manufacturing, industrials, media, technology and telecommunications, and transportation sectors in the United States. The firm does not invest globally from its New York and London offices. It typically invests between $50 million and $300 million in equity per transaction in companies with minimum enterprise values of $50 million to acquire a controlling interest. The firm was previously known as Citigroup Venture Capital, Ltd. Court Square Capital Partners was founded in 1968 and is headquartered in New York, New York with an additional office in London, United Kingdom.
JA

Jeffrey Abramoff

Partner

CB

Christopher Bertrand

VP

CB

Christopher Bloise

Managing Partner

JC

John Civantos

Managing Partner

CC

Catherine Coleman

Director of Investor Relations

BC

Bill Comfort

Managing Partner

EC

Edward Crotty

Associate

LC

Lubomir Cuba

Associate

MD

Michael Delaney

Managing Partner

MD

Matthew Dennett

Principal

BF

Brandon Faresich

Associate

GG

Gary Greenfield

Executive Advisor

NG

Nicholas Gregor

Associate

JH

Jesse Hermann

Resource Partner

IH

Ian Highet

Managing Partner

KH

Kurt Hilzinger

Partner

WH

Winny Hu

Investor Relations Associate

LH

Laura Humphrey

VP

BL

Byron L. Knief

President and MD

SG

Steven G. Lamb

Principal

SL

Steve Lamb

VP

JL

Jason Lee

Associate

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Mark Lem

Associate

CL

Chris Litchford

VP

EL

Elaine Liu

VP

TM

Thomas McWilliams

Managing Partner

Shane Mcgregor

Principal

AM

Anthony Mirra

CFO and Chief Compliance Officer

GN

Griffin Naylor

VP

DN

David Nguyen

Managing Partner

ZP

Zach Packer

VP

ZP

Zachary Packer

VP

RP

Raj Patel

Associate

LP

Larry Phillips

Resource Partner

JP

Jessica Pizzo

Resource Partner

CP

Christopher Porter

Director of Business Development

LR

Lew Raibley

Resource Partner

JR

Joe Rock

Director of Information Technology

HR

Hugo Rodrigues

VP

GR

Grant Ross

Associate

BS

Brian Schmidt

VP

KS

Kyle Schnack

VP

BS

Bill Shen

Associate

JS

Joseph Silvestri

Managing Partner

JT

James Terranova

VP

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David Thomas

Managing Partner

KT

Kevin Tian

Associate

JV

Jeffrey Vogel

Managing Partner

Vivek Vyas

Partner

RW

Richard Walsh

Partner

JW

John Weber

Managing Partner

MW

Matt Weinsier

Associate

KW

Kevin White

Partner

Jared White

VP

25 past transactions

Momentum Telecom

Private Equity Round in 2018
Momentum provides the highest quality turn-key cloud-based applications and services to independent cable operators and municipalities throughout the U.S. Leveraging its fully redundant telecommunications infrastructure and back-office capabilities, Momentum primarily offers private label residential and business digital voice solutions to operators at a low total cost ownership.

Research Now Group, Inc.

Acquisition in 2015
At Research Now, they have built their reputation on building relationships. Long lasting, mutually beneficial relationships. It is a philosophy that drives every facet of their company and paves the way for a bright and successful future. As a part of the e-Rewards, Inc. family of companies, they are the world’s leading B2B and B2C panel provider and data collection services company, and uniquely positioned as a true single source solutions provider for any and all research projects.

ERICO Global Company

Venture Round in 2016
ERICO Global Company, through its subsidiaries, designs, manufactures, and markets precision-engineered metal products. It provides electrical fixings, fasteners, and supports, including acoustical components, beams and purlins, rooftop pipe and equipment supports, ceilings and partitions, conduits and cables, drywall products, hangers, strut channels, clamps, fittings and accessories, and stud wall products. The company serves electrical, commercial and industrial construction, utility, and rail application markets in North America, Europe, Asia, and Latin America. ERICO Global Company was incorporated in 2002 and is based in Solon, Ohio. As of September 18, 2015, ERICO Global Company operates as a subsidiary of Pentair plc.

Power Digital Marketing

Secondary Market in 2022
Power Digital Marketing is focused marketing agency that offers strategy, expertise, and execution to different brands. The team is composed of highly specialized marketing professionals who are proven at the large agency level and are experts in their fields. Its mission is to move away from the standardized "one size fits all"​ marketing approach and deliver customized solutions with measurable results. Power Digital marketing provides online marketing services and campaigns tailored to your business objectives and specific audience.

AFS Technologies

Private Equity Round in 2014
AFS Technologies, Inc., doing business as Advanced FoodSystems, provides food and beverage enterprise software solutions in North America and the Caribbean. Its solutions include distribution and financials, warehouse management, replenishment, business intelligence, Web order management, mobile sales automation, mobile delivery automation, and processing. The company also provides implementation, professional, support, and training services. It serves industries, such as grocery and foodservice, meat and poultry, fish and seafood, candy and tobacco, refrigerated and frozen, produce, and wine and spirits. The company was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona.

Mspark

Acquisition in 2010
Mspark, a privately held, national, print and digital media distribution company, has partnered with clients to deliver reliable advertising solutions since 1988. The Company's business success stems from a simple premise -- to provide measurable results and a solid return on the customer's marketing investment. Mspark is uniquely positioned with access to more than 22 million U.S. households in 29 states and 550+ markets, and its 98% household penetration in the markets it serves is unsurpassed by other competitors. The Mspark portfolio of more than 3,000 clients includes consumer packaged goods manufacturers, retailers, restaurants and service providers across the United States.

Terra Millennium

Funding Round in 2016
Terra Millennium helps companies worldwide leverage differences and similarities for maximum performance to reduce risk, enhance innovation and effectiveness. Their focus is on culture. The TMC advantage is their focus on all six levels of culture to assure your company operates at maximum performance whatever your business challenge. We deliver online and face-to-face solutions to improve your competitive advantage.

Integrated Prescription Management, Inc.

Private Equity Round in 2018
Integrated Prescription Management, Inc. provides prescription management solutions through collaboration, data integration, and investment in health care solutions. The company offers online tools to help members find the information to make informed decisions about their prescription care; GenRx Interactive, an online tool that lets users to update eligibility, administer prior authorizations, look up member history, and run standard reports; and resources and information to process pharmacy claims. The company was incorporated in 2009 and is based in Fresno, California.

AFS Technologies

Acquisition in 2014
AFS Technologies, Inc., doing business as Advanced FoodSystems, provides food and beverage enterprise software solutions in North America and the Caribbean. Its solutions include distribution and financials, warehouse management, replenishment, business intelligence, Web order management, mobile sales automation, mobile delivery automation, and processing. The company also provides implementation, professional, support, and training services. It serves industries, such as grocery and foodservice, meat and poultry, fish and seafood, candy and tobacco, refrigerated and frozen, produce, and wine and spirits. The company was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona.

NDC

Acquisition in 2016
NDC, headquartered in Nashville, provides health care fulfillment and delivery services such as dental products and vaccines. The company receives the supplies from manufacturers and ships them either directly to customers or other local distributors.

Offen Petroleum

Acquisition in 2019
Offen Petroleum is your single-stop provider for all fuel, lubricants, DEF, and fuel-hauling needs in the Rocky Mountain Region. Offen Petroleum is a fuel, lubricants, DEF, and premium additives wholesale distributor based in Denver, Colorado. They serve a broad range of commercial and industrial fuels and lubricants accounts, as well as retail gasoline outlets throughout the Rocky Mountain Region. They also own two convenience stores in Northern Colorado and one in the Denver Metro area.

GetARoom.com

Acquisition in 2018

Conterra Ultra Broadband, LLC

Acquisition in 2014
Conterra Broadband Services (“Conterra”), headquartered in Charlotte, NC, is a national provider of wide area network services for wireline and wireless providers, educational, healthcare and government entities that require bandwidth intensive, carrier-grade data, video and voice transport. Conterra specializes in the design, deployment and operation of customized transport networks in underserved markets. During the last decade, Conterra has connected more than a thousand sites in 25 states. As a result, Conterra is among the largest and most experienced rural broadband transport providers in the US. Conterra utilizes fiber and customized microwave networks to cost effectively reach sites with high-capacity, reliable services.

DISA Global Solutions

Acquisition in 2014
DISA has been providing innovative workplace safety and compliance services for over 25 years. We are a global provider with a client-base of approximately 11,000 client companies around the world. Our services are specifically designed to promote workplace health and safety, while utilizing today's most advanced technologies. DISA is highly committed to quality and service excellence and is ISO 9001:2008 certified. We deliver a broad portfolio of value-added services. Our extensive knowledge and commitment to safety and compliance has positioned our company as a leading provider to safety-sensitive employers around the world. Our service portfolio includes drug and alcohol testing, background screening, occupational health screening, transportation compliance, and safety and substance abuse training.

Curacao

Private Equity Round in 2011
Adir International, LLC, doing business as La Curacao, operates a chain of retail stores that sell electronics, home furnishings, entertainment products, and gifts in California and Arizona. It sells console and video games, computers, furniture, digital cameras and camcorders, home and major appliances, car audio-video and GPS, jewelry and watches, fragrances and personal care products, sunglasses, toys, and learning courses, as well as products for babies through its retail stores and online. The company also offers Internet access, music downloads, local and long distance phone services, and travel arrangements; and money transfers to México and Central America, as well as operates a fast food restaurant. It serves the Hispanic community. The company was founded in 1978 and is based in Los Angeles, California. It has stores in Anaheim, Los Angeles, Chino, Huntington Park, South Gate, Panorama City, Lynwood, Fountain Valley, and San Bernandino, California; and Phoenix and Mesa, Arizona.
National Seating & Mobility’s core business is custom mobility, Rehab and adaptive seating systems. Across three decades, they’ve grown from five locations to a national network of professional Assistive Technology Providers (ATPs) serving clients, therapists and physicians across the U.S. Their clients are often severely physically challenged. Most are pediatrics with diagnoses of birth defects, Cerebral Palsy, Muscular Dystrophy and Spina Bifida. They also serve teens, adults and seniors challenged with severe trauma, disease and skeletal disorders.

Virtium LLC

Acquisition in 2019
Virtium is a leading innovator of embedded SSD and industrial memory solutions designed specifically to meet the dynamic requirements of embedded systems. With embedded SSD and DDR products strategically aligned to application roadmaps, Virtium backs-up its technology with superior customer service and technical support.

PlayCore

Acquisition in 2017
PlayCore cares about core values. Things like healthy happy children. engaged families, opportunities to engage with nature, places where everyone can play, no matter how different...or how alike they are.PlayCore Believe that various forms of play, recreation, and physical activity are essential throughout life as they provide a healthy life balance and greatly enrich people of all ages and abilities.

Auto Europe, LLC

Acquisition in 2006
Auto Europe, LLC provides car rental services in Europe and internationally. The company offers luxury and sports car rentals; private chauffeur service; and specialty vehicle rentals, including van, motorhome, motorcycle, chauffeur, airport, exotic car, and one way car rental services. It also provides booking services for air travel from the U.S. to Europe; and three, four, and five star hotels. The company was founded in 1954 and is based in Portland, Maine. Auto Europe, LLC is a former subsidiary of Mytravel Group plc.

Burly Bear Network

Series C in 2001
Burly Bear Network is the premier media and marketing company dedicated to the college audience. Burly Bear is anchored by the leading college cable television network, reaching more than 5 million students at 570 universities, and a broadband Web distribution, www.burlybear.com. Burly Bear also offers students and sponsors a range of tours, live events and a strong on-campus presence. Burly Bear delivers original, acclaimed entertainment from the inside and is guided by a world-class team of management and investors, led by Lorne Michaels' Broadway Video, New Media leader Cliff Friedman, Managing Partner of Constellation Ventures/Bear Stearns. The management team is headed by former National Football League and MTV marketing chief Howard Handler.

Axis Bank Limited

Post in 2003
Axis Private Equity Advisors, formerly Axis Private Equity, provides advisory services to companies looking to raise capital from institutional investors. After raising the $150 million Infrastructure Fund in 2008, the firm decided to sell its fund management business in 2010. Investors balked at the idea, however, and Axis was forced to wind down the fund instead. Today, Axis remains involved in private equity, but solely in an advisory role.Axis Capital’s Private Equity Advisory team provides end-to-end advisory services to companies looking to raise equity/quasi-equity from financial investors.

System1

Private Equity Round in 2017
System1 is an independent marketplace for keyword pay-per-click advertising. Its platform analyzes billions of consumer attributes and uses “pre-targeting” algorithms to unlock and fulfill consumer intent across channels including social, native, email, search, market research, and lead generation. System1 was founded in Venice, CA with a simple mission - use technology to make advertising better for consumers and advertisers. System1 is led by a team of passionate and experienced entrepreneurs who have built multiple billion dollar companies.

Fibertech Networks

Acquisition in 2010
Headquartered in Rochester, N.Y., Fibertech Networks is a leader in providing fiber-optic based network services throughout mid-size cities in the Eastern and Central regions of the United States. The company was founded in May of 2000 and has built metro-area fiber networks in 24 mid-size markets in the Eastern U.S.

The Harvard Drug Group

Acquisition in 2015
The Harvard Drug Group is a long-standing corporation with an iconic brands portfolio. Their company began much like independent pharmacies did, as a family business. Over nearly half a century and several acquisitions later, the family business evolved into what is now one of the nation’s largest suppliers of prescription and OTC medications and related products. The Harvard Drug Group helps customers compete in a dynamic healthcare marketplace. By offering affordable and safe branded, generic and OTC products to healthcare providers, we achieve our mission, “to drive value for pharmaceutical partners and consumers.” Their main focus is on our customers. We pride ourselves on providing service excellence in every aspect of our business. By embracing our core business principles of “integrity, veracity, fairness, dignity, participation, commitment, responsibility and managing by facts” each day we achieve our vision of being “the essential partner linking manufacturers and providers that seek growth and value in the pharmaceutical care business.”

Data Blue

Acquisition in 2019
Data Blue, LLC delivers customized storage, backup, and server virtualization and consolidation solutions to enterprises and Fortune 1000 companies. It offers data storage, backup and recovery, networking, and application services; and maintenance services for IT organizations. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. As per transaction announced on October 11, 2019, Data Blue, LLC operates as a subsidiary of AHEAD, LLC.