Altamir - 2018 Registration document

Business description and activities

Business description

Maurice Tchenio (75) 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 Institut de Développement Industriel (IDI, Paris), 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 listed private equity company. In 2010, he created AlphaOmega, 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 from HEC and Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar and graduated with high distinction.

pour la Croissance) in 2007–08. Mr Misrahi is a graduate of Ecole Polytechnique and holds an MBA fromHarvard Business School.

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APAX PARTNERS LLP

Apax Partners LLP is the management company of Apax VII LP ($7.5bn), Apax IX LP ($9.0bn) and Apax Digital ($1.1bn). Headquartered in London and co-managed by Andrew Sillitoe (London) and Mitch Truwit (New York), the Apax Partners LLP team comprises around 120 investment professionals, including 21 Partners, who manage the Apax VIII LP and Apax IX LP funds. These professionals are organised in four sector teams (TMT, Consumer, Healthcare, Services) based in sevenofficesworldwide (London, NewYork, Munich, Tel Aviv, Mumbai, Shanghai andHong Kong). The Apax Digital fund is managed by dedicated team of 22 professionals, including two partners: Marcelo Gigliari and Dan O’Keefe. The Apax Partners LLP teams work closely with the heads of the Operational Excellence team (17 people), who provide direct support to the management teams to accelerate value creation, and with the Capital Markets team (three people), who create innovative financing solutions for portfolio companies. AndrewSillitoe (46) is co-CEOof Apax Partners and a Partner in the technologies and telecommunications team. Mr Silltoe is also a member of the Executive, Investment, Approval, Portfolio Reviewand Exit Committees. He has been based in London since joining the firm in 1998 and has focused on the technology & telecommunications sectors in that time. Mr Silltoe has been involved in a number of deals, includingKing, Orange, TIVIT, TDC, Intelsat and Inmarsat. Prior to joiningApaxPartners, Mr Silltoewas a consultant at LEK where he advised clients on acquisitions in a number of sectors. Mr Silltoe holds an MA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Oxford and an MBA from INSEAD. Mitch Truwit (50) is co-CEOof Apax Partners and a Partner in the Services team. He is also amember of the Investment Committee and a Trustee of the Apax Foundation. Prior to joining Apax Partners in 2006, Mr Truwit was the President and CEO of Orbitz Worldwide, a subsidiary of Travelport, between 2005 and 2006, andwas the ExecutiveVice President andChief OperatingOfficer of priceline.combetween 2001 and 2005. Mr Truwit is a graduate of Vassar College where he received a BA in Political Science. Mr Truwit also holds an MBA from Harvard Business School. He serves as a Board member of AssuredPartners, Bankrate, Boats Group (ex-Dominion Marine Media) and Quality Distribution Inc. He previously served as a Board member of Advantage Sales & Marketing, Dealer.com, Garda World Security Corporation, Hub International and Trader Canada. Mr Truwit is the Chairman of Street Squash, aHarlem-based urban youth enrichment program and is an honorary member of the Special Olympics of CT, an organisation providing year-round sports training and athletic competition for children and adults with intellectual disabilities. Mr Truwit was previously a member of PEC, an organisation established to provide information about the private equity industry.

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APAX PARTNERS SAS

Apax Partners SAS is theManagement Company of Apax France VIII (€704m), Apax France IX (€1.030bn) andApaxDevelopment (objective: €225m). It is also Amboise Partners SA’s investment advisor. Headquartered in Paris and chaired by Eddie Misrahi, Apax Partners SAS has an investment teamof around 30professionals, including nine partners, who manage the Apax France VII and Apax France IX funds: Eddie Misrahi, Damien de Bettignies, MoniqueCohen, BrunoCandelier, GuillaumeCousseran, Bertrand Pivin, Gilles Rigal, Thomas Simon and Thomas de Villeneuve. The partners have an average seniority at Apax of 17 years. They have in-depth knowledge of the sectors in which they invest and have previouslyheldmanagement positions incompanies or consulting firms. The Apax Development fund is managed by dedicated team of 11 professionals, led by Caroline Rémus. It has two other partners: Isabelle Hermetet and Olivier Le Gall. TheApax Partners SAS investment teams are organisedby sector and comprise specialists in areas such as Business Development, Financing and Investor Relations, Digital and ESG. Eddie Misrahi (64) 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

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ALTAMIR 2018

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