Wendel announces today that two of its Senior Directors within the investment team, Charles Goulet and
Xavier Lemonnier, have been promoted to Managing Directors. This promotion will take effect on January 1,
2023.

Charles Goulet, who joined Wendel’s investment team in 2010 as an Analyst, is
promoted to Managing Director as of January 1, 2023. Since joining Wendel, Charles
has worked primarily in the Paris office, where he is based today, and also spent four
years in the London office. Charles has been actively involved in multiple transactions
at Wendel since he joined, including in recent years the investments in Mecatherm and
Cromology which were sold in 2018 and 2022. Charles is in charge of Tarkett since
2021. In this role, he is a Board member of Tarkett Participation and Observer of the
listed company Tarkett SA. Within the investment team, he covers in Europe the
Business Services and Healthcare sectors.
Charles started his career at AXA Private Equity (now Ardian) in London as an Analyst in the private debt and
fund-of-funds teams.

Charles is a graduate of ESSEC Business School and holds a degree in Law.
Xavier Lemonnier joined the investment team in 2018 as a Director and is now
promoted to Managing Director as of January 1, 2023. Based in the Paris office, Xavier
is a member of the team managing the investment in Bureau Veritas and is a Board
member of Stahl. With a generalist background, Xavier has contributed in recent years
to the development of the TMT and Education sectors within the investment team in
Europe.

Xavier started his career in 2008 in the investment banking division of Merrill Lynch where he worked on crossborder transactions involving French clients.
Prior to joining Wendel, Xavier worked for nearly nine years at BC Partners, first in Paris and then in London,
where he was involved in numerous investments in Europe, in a variety of sectors notably Financial Services,
Consumer and Retail.
Xavier is a graduate of École Polytechnique and ENSAE ParisTech.

Boston, MA — November 30, 2022 — Corvus Insurance, the leading provider of Smart Cyber Insurance^® products powered by AI-driven risk data, recently welcomed Angela Singhal Whiteford as its new Chief Marketing Officer. She brings more than two decades of marketing and product management experience spanning several technology verticals, including telecommunications, identity management, and robotics, to the rapidly expanding insurtech company. Whiteford joins Corvus’s Executive Leadership team and reports directly to the company’s CEO, Madhu Tadikonda.

A results-driven marketing leader, Whiteford has a proven track record of driving category leadership and brand authority for high growth companies. Whiteford previously held marketing leadership roles at high-tech brands, including Affirmed Networks (acquired by Microsoft), Forter, and Berkshire Grey.

“Corvus is disrupting the traditional insurance industry by leveraging data and technology to more accurately assess risk and proactively mitigating that risk for policyholders — creating a truly unique offering in the market. I’m excited to join Corvus to help bring the company into its next stage of growth and innovation,” said Whiteford.

Whiteford joins Corvus on the heels of a series of pivotal milestones. In August of this year, the cyber insurtech MGA elevated Madhu Tadikonda to the role of CEO to lead its rapid growth and international expansion, while in July the company opened its first continental European office. Most recently, earlier this month Corvus officially entered a multi-year cyber insurance partnership with The Travelers Companies, Inc. around its continental European product. Corvus also secured an enhanced multi-year U.S. agreement with SiriusPoint and R&Q Accredited to further enable Corvus’s evolution and focus on policyholders across geographies.

“Corvus has established significant groundwork in the market, thanks to our industry-leading technology, great fundamental metrics, and strong growth opportunities. Angela will drive our proven industry leadership and go-to-market strategies, built upon the foundation that Corvus is able to better predict and prevent complex cyber risks for brokers, policyholders, and risk capital partners alike,” said Corvus’s CEO Madhu Tadikonda. “She is joining Corvus at such an exciting time; I look forward to seeing Angela inspire and motivate us all.”

View the original press release on BusinessWire.

About Corvus Insurance

Corvus Insurance is building a safer world through insurance products and digital tools that reduce risk, increase transparency, and improve resilience for policyholders and program partners. Our market-leading specialty insurance products are enabled by advanced data science and include Smart Cyber Insurance^® and Smart Tech E+O™. Our digital platforms and tools enable efficient quoting and binding and proactive risk mitigation. Corvus Insurance offers insurance products in the U.S., Middle East, Europe, Canada, and Australia. Current insurance program partners include AXIS Capital, Crum & Forster, Hudson Insurance Group, certain underwriters at Lloyd’s of London, R&Q Accredited, SiriusPoint, and The Travelers Companies, Inc. Corvus Insurance, Corvus London Markets, and Corvus Germany are the marketing names used to refer to Corvus Insurance Agency, LLC; Corvus Agency Limited; and Corvus Underwriting GmbH. All entities are subsidiaries of Corvus Insurance Holdings, Inc. Corvus Insurance was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts with offices across the U.S., in the UK, and Germany. For more information, visit corvusinsurance.com.

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Arbor Investments (“Arbor”), a specialized private equity firm focused exclusively on food, beverage and related industries announces several new hires to the firm’s Functional Discipline Team and Investment Team.

FUNCTIONAL DISCIPLINE TEAM

Jim Freeman has joined Arbor as Partner, Chief Financial Officer and Director of Investor Communications, with his role as CFO effective upon J. David Foster’s retirement. Freeman brings nearly 30 years of finance and accounting leadership experience, most recently as Senior Vice President of Capital Markets and Strategy at MGM Resorts International. Jim’s responsibilities included oversight of global capital raising, M&A, Treasury, Investor Relations and various strategic initiatives. His previous roles include serving as the CFO of Fontainebleau Resorts and as an investment banker at Banc of America Securities.

Nancy Fox has joined Arbor as Chief People Officer. Fox most recently was Chief People Officer at KBP Investments. Her professional experience spans public and private organizations leading and elevating human resource functions and organization cultures at KBP, Triumph Foods and its joint ventures with Seaboard Foods, Deffenbaugh Industries, Sprint and EMBARQ, VF Corp., and TWA.

Suzanne Martineau is joining Arbor as Director of Brand Strategy in December. Martineau most recently served as Chief Strategy Officer at Chicago-based advertising agency Schafer Condon Carter. She brings over 25 years of experience as a brand strategist and creative director with deep food & beverage expertise having partnered with clients including Kellogg’s, Glanbia, ANGOSTURA, Rich’s, ConAgra, Hershey’s, Campbells, the National Pork Board, and The Federalist Wines.

Freeman joins the firm to succeed longtime Arbor CFO and Partner J. David Foster who announced his retirement and will transition by year end. Fox joined the firm replacing former SVP of Organization Strategy & Talent Roberta McQuade who retired from Arbor earlier this year. Martineau will be joining Arbor’s in-house Brand & Marketing team led by Alison Miller, Partner & Chief Marketing Officer.

INVESTMENT TEAM

George Russell has joined Arbor’s Investment Team as a Vice President in the Chicago office. Russell is a recent MBA graduate from The Wharton School and previously worked at Goldman Sachs in the Consumer & Retail investment banking group.

Frederico Vivacqua has joined Arbor’s Investment Team as an Associate in the New York office. Vivacqua previously worked at Bank of America in the Consumer & Retail investment banking group.

Commenting on the hires and additions, Arbor President Carl Allegretti stated, “I’d like to personally thank Dave Foster and recognize his countless contributions to the firm over the last 20 years. He took a calculated risk and became employee number two when he joined Co-Founders Greg Purcell and the late Joe Campolo over two decades ago. Fast forward and Arbor has successfully raised five equity funds and two debt funds and deployed over $3B in capital under Dave’s tenure as CFO.”

“We’ve always differentiated ourselves by employing high-caliber resources in-house,” continued Allegretti. “These recent hires demonstrate our ability to continue attracting top tier talent with areas of specialization to facilitate Arbor’s hands-on investment approach, as well as to provide strategic direction, operational advice and management services to our portfolio companies.”