John K. Adams

Mellon Ventures makes majority and active minority investments in leveraged buyouts, management buyouts, debt and equity recapitalizations, privatizations, corporate divestitures and various growth capital situations. Their investments are typically structured as preferred equity instruments. Mellon's Growth and Buyouts Group generally targets industries that offer identifiable growth opportunities, either organically or via consolidation, and where achievement of growth and margin enhancement goals lead to value creation over the life of their investment. This group focuses their investment activity in the following areas: manufacturing, distribution and business services. Target companies generally exhibit the following characteristics: strong, experienced management teams, defensible strategies, sustainable competitive advantages and opportunities for margin enhancement through economies of scale, operational improvements, efficiencies or structural change. Mellon Venture's Financial and Business Services Group invests in companies that employ information technology to sell products or services to the financial services market and other targeted business markets. Investment criteria include strong management team, large, growing market opportunity, clear and defensible competitive advantage and ability to leverage Mellon Financial Corp. as a potential partner or customer. Their Technology Practice Group invests in outstanding entrepreneurs and management teams to build great companies in the information technology and communications sectors offering the highest potential for sustained growth and profitability. This group focuses on cutting edge technology in a broad range of sub-sectors including software, systems infrastructure, IP applications, and wireless communications. The team focuses on early-, expansion- and later-stage investment opportunities. Investment criteria include superior defensible technology, large market opportunity and positive market trends, compelling business model and value proposition, successful beta customers or lab trials, established channel/OEM relationships, strong management team and attractive market dynamics.