CVC is pleased to announce the appointment of John Kelleher as a new Managing Partner. John will join in early Q3 2025 to focus on driving value creation across our portfolio and will be based in New York.

John brings a strong mix of private equity and operational leadership experience having spent over nine years at McKinsey & Company. Most recently he was a Senior Partner and Interim CEO/CXO in the firm’s special operations unit, McKinsey Transformation, where he led numerous corporate transformations across sectors such as technology, industrials, infrastructure and services. Prior to McKinsey, he was a senior member of the operating team at Brookfield Asset Management and he has also been CEO of private equity-backed companies, with a focus on strategic execution and value creation. Earlier, he was a co-founder and partner of a mid-market private equity firm and an investment banker at Goldman Sachs.

As part of our long-term succession planning, Jean-Remy Roussel, Managing Partner and Global Head of Operations, who started the CVC Operations team 17 years ago, will transition to Senior Adviser in H1 2026 and will continue to drive value through to exit in those portfolio companies where he remains a Board member. Jean-Remy will gradually transition his day-to-day responsibilities to John who will lead Global Operations going forward.

Rob Lucas, CEO of CVC, said: “On behalf of CVC, I’d like to thank Jean-Remy for his outstanding contributions over the last 17 years. In that time, Jean-Remy has been instrumental in building out our Operations capabilities and we wish him all the best for the future. Building on this strong foundation, we are delighted to welcome John to the team. His deep operational expertise and proven leadership in complex transformations will further strengthen our ability to support portfolio companies and deliver long-term value to our investors.”

Jean-Remy Roussel added: “Having been at CVC since 2008, the time feels right to step back from the Operations team and hand over the reins to John. I’m immensely proud of what we’ve built together over the years and I’m deeply grateful to my colleagues across the CVC Network for their support, collaboration and friendship. I can’t wait to see what the firm achieves in the future.”

John Kelleher said: “I am honoured to be joining CVC, an outstanding platform with an exceptional reputation. I look forward to working alongside the talented team to help drive growth and performance across the portfolio.”

Former CFO and Head of Portfolio Strategy at PwC to Support Professional and Tech-Enabled Services Companies

NEW YORK, NY – April 10, 2025 — Warburg Pincus, the pioneer of private equity global growth investing, today announced the appointment of Martyn Curragh as a Senior Advisor working within the firm’s Technology and Services practice. In his role, Mr. Curragh will work with Warburg Pincus to identify, evaluate and support new investment opportunities and advise portfolio companies on strategic growth and value creation initiatives, with a focus on professional and tech-enabled services companies.

Martyn Curragh was Chief Financial Officer and Head of Portfolio Strategy at PwC, where he played a key role in optimizing revenue, profitability growth and evolving the firm’s investment processes and operating model to drive efficiencies. He successfully executed several significant business divestitures and led acquisitions focused on strategic growth. He previously led PwC’s U.S. Deals practice, driving significant revenue growth through broadening and enhancing capabilities and offerings to both private equity and corporate clients.

Warburg Pincus continues to be an active investor in professional and tech-enabled services, with a strong track record of investing in companies including Aztec Group, Specialist Risk Group, A-LIGN, Edelman Financial Engines, Ensemble Health Partners, Foundation Risk Partners, and Octus (formerly Reorg).

“We are thrilled to welcome Martyn Curragh to Warburg Pincus. Martyn is a transformative leader who has consistently demonstrated his ability to drive significant growth and innovation.  He will be a significant resource as we look to accelerate investment in professional and tech-enabled services businesses,” said Ash Somani, Managing Director, Head of San Francisco Office, Warburg Pincus. “We look forward to leveraging his expertise and insights in supporting our portfolio companies and exploring new areas of investing within professional and tech-enabled services. He will be a value-added advisor for our current and future portfolio companies as they continue their growth journeys,” added King Leung, Principal, Warburg Pincus.

“I am thrilled to join Warburg Pincus, a firm well-known for its extensive experience in services investing and uniquely focused on growth within its portfolio,” said Martyn Curragh. “It’s an incredible time to invest given the growing trends in generative AI-driven automation, accelerating outsourcing, and the continued need for sector-specific expertise. I look forward to partnering with management teams to help accelerate profitable growth and work with Warburg Pincus on new areas of investing within tech-enabled services.”

Mr. Curragh is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland and received his undergraduate degree in economics from the Queen’s University of Belfast, Northern Ireland.

About Warburg Pincus

Warburg Pincus LLC is the pioneer of private equity global growth investing. A private partnership since 1966, the firm has the flexibility and experience to focus on helping investors and management teams achieve enduring success across market cycles. Today, the firm has more than $87 billion in assets under management, and more than 220 companies in their active portfolio, diversified across stages, sectors, and geographies. Warburg Pincus has invested in more than 1,000 companies across its private equity, real estate, and capital solutions strategies.

The firm is headquartered in New York with offices in Amsterdam, Beijing, Berlin, Hong Kong, Houston, London, Luxembourg, Mumbai, Mauritius, San Francisco, São Paulo, Shanghai, and Singapore. For more information, please visit www.warburgpincus.com or follow us on LinkedIn.

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Experienced Tech Executive Will Operationalize Growth Strategies at Elite ServiceNow Partner and Digital Workflow Advisor

NewRocket, a leading digital workflow advisor and Elite ServiceNow partner, announced today that it has named Frank Palermo as Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Palermo joins NewRocket with a distinguished track record of scaling technology-driven consultancies and he will play a pivotal role in executing the Company’s strategic growth initiatives. NewRocket is backed by Gryphon Investors (“Gryphon”), a leading middle-market private investment firm.

As an accomplished leader in the technology and consulting sector, Mr. Palermo has a track record of building and growing platform-oriented services businesses and leading many successful business units with services similar to those of NewRocket. He offers extensive experience enhancing customer outcomes by delivering innovative solutions and offerings, driving operational excellence, and directing high-performing teams.

“Having collaborated with Frank on severaI business endeavors, I am thrilled to be working closely with him once again – he brings a unique blend of expertise in AI, data and workflows. He is also skilled at consulting and setting up innovation labs, and he has terrific leadership attributes,” said Harsha Kumar, CEO of NewRocket. “We are confident that his leadership will further strengthen our ability to deliver creative solutions to our clients while expanding our footprint in the Agentic AI and ServiceNow consulting space.”

Prior to joining NewRocket, Mr. Palermo held several technology and business leadership roles at Virtusa, a global engineering services firm. He was a member of Virtusa’s executive leadership team and was instrumental in driving growth from a start-up business to a $2 billion global powerhouse. Mr. Palermo’s roles included developing global technology practices in business process, data and analytics, cloud and customer experience, launching a standalone digital business, building a TMT business, and most recently building a global business consulting and technology advisory practice focused on GenAI.

Prior to Virtusa, Mr. Palermo was CTO of INSCI (Clearstory), a document management, workflow and imaging company that pioneered Internet-based bill presentment and was awarded product of the year. He also held several technology roles at IBM, most notably as one of the early pioneers of the PowerPC microprocessor product line.

Gabe Stephenson, Deal Partner & Head of Gryphon’s Technology Solutions & Services group, noted, “We are excited to have Frank join Harsha’s leadership team to help drive and operationalize NewRocket’s growth strategy and enhance the Company’s leadership position within the ServiceNow ecosystem. We are fortunate to have a talented management team that has scaled businesses from start-up stage to over $1 billion in revenue. Frank’s passion for and knowledge about technology, his hands-on leadership style, and his track record building great businesses will be very additive to NewRocket.”

Mr. Palermo added, “I am delighted and energized to join the NewRocket crew on our mission to be the world’s leading ServiceNow partner. We will leverage ServiceNow’s Agentic AI and Gen AI platform, industry solutions, workflows and data to enable impactful transformations for our clients. I’d like to thank Gryphon and the NewRocket leadership team for providing me this fantastic opportunity.”

About NewRocket

New Rocket brings over 19 years of advising and supporting clients in designing, implementing, and managing digital workflows to improve employee and customer experiences. An Elite ServiceNow Partner and ServiceNow Global Partner Award Winner, the Company has completed over 3,000 projects across nine industry specializations. NewRocket Goes Beyond Workflows™ to help clients transform their enterprise into a place where employees flourish, customers thrive, and people matter. With over 3,000 ServiceNow certifications, NewRocket’s business strategists take a holistic, strategic approach to optimize the ServiceNow platform and help clients solve industry-specific challenges.

About Gryphon Investors
Gryphon Investors is a leading middle-market private investment firm focused on profitably growing and competitively advantaged companies in the Business Services, Consumer, Healthcare, Industrial Growth, Software, and Technology Solutions & Services sectors. With approximately $10 billion of assets under management, Gryphon prioritizes investments in which it can form strong partnerships with founders, owners, and executives to accelerate the building of leading companies and generate enduring value through its integrated deal and operations business model. Gryphon’s highly differentiated model integrates its well-proven Operations Resources Group, which is led by full-time, Gryphon senior operating executives with general management, human capital acquisition and development, treasury, finance, and accounting expertise. Gryphon’s three core investment strategies include its Flagship, Heritage, and Junior Capital strategies, each with dedicated funds of capital. The Flagship and Heritage strategies target equity investments of $50 million to $500 million per portfolio company. The Junior Capital strategy targets investments of $10 million to $25 million in junior securities of credit facilities, arranged by leading middle-market lenders, in both Gryphon-controlled companies, as well as in other private equity-backed companies operating in Gryphon’s targeted investment sectors.

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April 3rd, 2025 – L’Aigle – The IMV Technologies Group announces a change at the head of its company: as of April 1, 2025, Oliver Kohlhaas succeeds Alain de Lambilly as CEO of the IMV Technologies Group. Alain de Lambilly, who has successfully managed the company in recent years, is leaving the Group due to family reasons.

Joachim Hasenmaier, Chairman of the Supervisory Board, said: “We wholeheartedly thank Alain for his dedication and commitment to IMV Technologies and for the results and the quality of work he has accomplished together with the entire IMV Technologies organization. Under his leadership, IMV Technologies has taken decisive steps in its growth and transformation and has strengthened its position through both internal growth as well as several strategic acquisitions. We are convinced that Oliver Kohlhaas will continue this momentum, and that with the support and continued commitment of all IMV Technologies employees, he will continue to develop and successfully implement the company’s strategy.”

Alain de Lambilly shared his thanks to the IMV Technologies customers and teams for the development and transformation of the company over the past few years: “I am proud of the progress we have made with our customers and all the IMV Technologies teams and of the successes we have achieved together. I wish Oliver every success for the future, and I am convinced that he will be able to lead the company with contagious commitment.”

Oliver Kohlhaas shared his enthusiasm: “I am delighted with this opportunity and approach this responsibility with confidence and energy. Together with the IMV Technologies employees, we will continue to develop the company to serve the current and future needs of our customers and to meet the challenges of a constantly changing world.”

Oliver Kohlhaas is German. He studied mathematics in Aachen and Bordeaux. After a few years in strategy consulting, he had a successful career spanning more than 20 years with the Bayer Group. He managed pharmaceutical activities in France and Germany, spent five years as Head of Global Marketing for the animal health business, before taking charge of corporate strategy and internal consulting for another five years. After leaving Bayer, he developed his own consulting business before joining IMV Technologies.

About the IMV TECHNOLOGIES Group

IMV Technologies is the world leader in animal assisted reproductive biotechnologies. Founded in 1963, IMV Technologies is a French company with subsidiaries and/or production sites in Brazil, China, Canada, France, India, the Netherlands, Scotland, Spain, Belgium, Sweden and the United States. IMV Technologies operates leading brands in the fields of semen analysis, assisted reproduction, artificial insemination and veterinary imaging. IMV Technologies’ Life Sciences Business Unit, Cryo Bio System, manufactures and distributes equipment and supplies for human assisted reproduction and biobanks.

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Bruno PELTON – Bruno.pelton@imv-technologies.com
Group Chief Human Ressources Officer

CVC is pleased to announce the appointment of Jean-Pierre Saad as a new Managing Partner. Jean-Pierre will join in June 2025 to lead private equity technology investments in Europe and will be based in London.

Jean-Pierre brings a wealth of sector and investment experience having spent over 15 years at KKR. Most recently he was leading KKR’s Technology activities for EMEA Private Equity. Key investments he led/co-led include Exact, SoftwareOne, Devoteam and Koerber Supply Chain Software. Prior to joining KKR, Jean-Pierre was in the telecoms and media team of Lehman Brothers in London.

Soren Vestergaard-Poulsen, Managing Partner and Chair of the Private Equity Board at CVC, said: “I’m delighted that Jean-Pierre is coming on board. His deep sector expertise will strengthen our capabilities to source and execute high-quality investment opportunities in this key sector for CVC.”

Jean-Pierre Saad added: “I am excited to be joining this talented team and look forward to contributing to the CVC’s continuing growth and success. Technology in Europe is a sector with considerable potential and I am excited to help expand the platform and unlock many more of these opportunities.”

CVC is pleased to announce the appointment of Jean-Pierre Saad as a new Managing Partner. Jean-Pierre will join in June 2025 to lead private equity technology investments in Europe and will be based in London.

Jean-Pierre brings a wealth of sector and investment experience having spent over 15 years at KKR. Most recently he was leading KKR’s Technology activities for EMEA Private Equity. Key investments he led/co-led include Exact, SoftwareOne, Devoteam and Koerber Supply Chain Software. Prior to joining KKR, Jean-Pierre was in the telecoms and media team of Lehman Brothers in London.

Soren Vestergaard-Poulsen, Managing Partner and Chair of the Private Equity Board at CVC, said: “I’m delighted that Jean-Pierre is coming on board. His deep sector expertise will strengthen our capabilities to source and execute high-quality investment opportunities in this key sector for CVC.”

Jean-Pierre Saad added: “I am excited to be joining this talented team and look forward to contributing to the CVC’s continuing growth and success. Technology in Europe is a sector with considerable potential and I am excited to help expand the platform and unlock many more of these opportunities.”