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PRESENTATION OF THE COMPANY AND ITS ACTIVITIES

Business description

Damien de Bettignies (43) joined Apax Partners in 2007 as a member of the TMT team. He began his career in 1999 at Ernst & YoungAudit before joiningNatixis Private Equity in Paris in 2000, where he worked on venture capital investments in technology companies. In 2004, he joined the McKinsey & Co. consultancy, where he took part in strategic operational projects in France, Germany and theBenelux countries. Mr deBettignies is agraduate of Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications and the Madrid Universidad Politécnica. He also holds an MBA from Columbia Business School. Bruno Candelier (48) joined Apax Partners in 2001 and became a Partner in 2011; he is in charge of investments in the Consumer sector. He started his career in 1996 as a junior consultant then senior consultant at McKinsey & Co. in Paris, London and Johannesburg. Mr Candelier is a graduate of the Paris Ecole nationale des mines and holds an MBA from INSEAD. Monique Cohen (62) has been a partner at Apax Partners since 2000. She is responsible for Business & Financial Services investments andalsoheads up theBusinessDevelopment activity. She began her career at Paribas where, after several years, she became head of Equity Capital Markets and then Senior Banker. At BNP Paribas she was Global Head of Equity. Ms Cohen is a Director of the Safran and BNP Paribas groups and a member of the Supervisory Boards of JCDecaux and Hermès. She was also a member of the Board of the AMF (Autorité des Marchés Financiers) from 2011 to 2014. She is a graduate of the École Polytechnique. Guillaume Cousseran (39) joined Apax Partners in 2006, where he is responsible for business development and investor relations. Before coming to Apax Partners, Mr Cousseran worked for five years as an analyst, then as an associate at Lehman Brothers’ Paris-based investment banking team dedicated to French companies. While there he worked on many M&A, IPO and LBO deals. Mr Hagège is a graduate of HEC Business School. FranckHagège (43) joinedApaxPartners in 2004as amember of theConsumer team. Hebeganhis career in 1998as amanagement consultant with AT Kearney where he worked on strategic and operational assignments for major Groups and investment funds for five years. He also worked for one year at NetsCapital where he was involved in M&A transactions in the telecom and media sectors. Mr Hagège is a graduate of HEC Business School. Eddie Misrahi – (63) joined Apax Partners in 1991 as a Partner in charge of TMT investments. He has supported the growth of both young, innovative companies and more mature companies through growth financing and buyout transactions. Mr Misrahi became Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Apax Partners SA in 2007 (renamed Amboise Partners SA in 2017) and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Apax Partners SAS (formerly Apax Partners MidMarket) in 2008. He started his career at McKinsey & Co. in Paris then in Mexico City, before working at an American telecommunications group in theUnitedStates. Hewas president of the AFIC (Association Française des Investisseurs pour la Croissance, nowFrance Invest) in 2007–08. Mr Misrahi is a graduate of Ecole Polytechnique and holds anMBA fromHarvard Business School.

Éric Sabia – (39) is a graduate of Montpellier business school and holds a BA inManagement andBusiness Administration from the University of Reading in theUnitedKingdom. He began his career in 2003 at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Luxembourg and then in Paris, where he spent five yearsworkingas aSupervisor/Auditor in the Financial Services department. He has significant experience in private equity, having spent eight years at Fondinvest Capital, a fund-of-fundsManagement Company, where he held the position of deputyCFO fromMarch 2008, andCFO fromJanuary 2013. He was appointed Chief Financial Officer of Altamir in August 2016. Maurice Tchenio (74) is Chairman of Altamir Gérance, and ChairmanandCEOof AmboisePartners SA. He is alsoChairmanof theAlphaOmega Foundation. He began his career as an assistant professor of finance at HEC, before taking a position as project leader at the Paris-based Institut de Développement Industriel (IDI), an investment bank specialising in equity investments. In 1972, he founded Apax Partners with Ronald Cohen and Alan Patricof. Today, Apax Partners is a global private equity leader. From 1972 to 2010, he was the Chairman and CEO of Apax Partners SA, the group’s French arm. In 1995, he created Altamir, a listedprivate equityCompany. In 2010, he createdAlphaOmega, a venture philanthropy foundation recognised for its public interest. He is the co-founder of AFIC (Association Française des Investisseurs pour la Croissance), which became France Invest in 2018, and former Director of EVCA (European Private Equity and Venture Capital Association, now Invest Europe). Mr Tchenio has degrees fromHEC and Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar and graduated with high distinction.

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1.3.10 APAX PARTNERS TEAMS

APAX PARTNERS SAS

Apax Partners SAS is the Management Company of the Apax France VIII fund raised in 2011 (€704m) and Apax France IX raised in 2016 (€1.030bn). It is also Amboise Partners SA’s investment advisor. Based in Paris, it has an investment team of 30 professionals, of which nine are partners: Eddie Misrahi (Chairman), Monique Cohen, Damien de Bettignies, Monique Cohen, Guillaume Cousseran, Franck Hagège, Bertrand Pivin, Gilles Rigal and Thomas de Villeneuve. The partners have an average seniority at Apax of 16 years. They have in-depth knowledge of the sectors inwhich they invest andhave previously held management positions in companies or consulting firms. The investment team is organised by sector and has specialists in areas such as Business Development, Financing, Investor Relations, Digital and ESG.

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