Pierre-Francois Thaler

Partech Partners SAS (Partech Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1982. The firm is headquartered in France.

TechInsights, Inc. provides consulting and management software solutions for technology companies. The firm provides information and customized services in IP, technical intelligence and business intelligence for each stage of the IP lifecycle. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada.

Harvard University engages in the provision of teaching and research. It has twelve degree-granting Schools in addition to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, offering a global education. The university was founded in 1636 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe (WCAS) is a private equity firm founded in 1979 by Patrick Welsh, Russ Carson and Bruce Anderson. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Financière Brame SAS is an investment holding company with interest in women's clothing stores sector. The company was founded on August 1984 and is headquartered in Roubaix, France.

Bain & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It offers advisory services to the companies on their critical issues and opportunities: strategy, marketing, organization, operations, technology and mergers and acquisitions, across all industries and geographies. The company was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Metalor Technologies SA provides precious metal smelting and refining services and distributes precious metal in watch industry. The company was founded in 1852 and is headquartered in Marin, Switzerland.

Berkshire Partners LLC (Berkshire Partners) is a private equity subsidiary of Berkshire Partners Holdings LLC founded in 1986 by Christopher Clifford, Carl Ferenbach, Russel L. Epker, Brad Bloom and Richard Lubin. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Guardian Media Group plc provides media publishing services. It engages in the dissemination of news, information, and advertising matter by way of print and other media in the United Kingdom. The company also serves the radio and electronic publishing sectors. Guardian Media Group was founded by John Edward Taylor in 1821 and is headquartered in London, UK.

Springer Nature Ltd. operates a group of publishing companies. It publishes fiction, non-fiction, romance, young adult, military, business, science, political, history, autobiography, current event, psychology, mystery, thriller, audio, historical novel, literature, religious, pictorial, children’s, self-help, suspense, fantasy, humor, memoir, scientific reference, poetry and other books, as well as articles, essays, news reports and reviews. The company was founded by Daniel Macmillan and Alexander Macmillan in 1843 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck GmbH operates as an investment holding company with interests in publishing books, newspapers, periodicals and online media. Its customers include authors, researchers, academics, educators, librarians, and readers. The company was founded in 1971 and is headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany.

Pearson Education, Inc. publishes educational and professional books. Its brands include Prentice Hall, Longman, Scott Foresman, Addison Wesley, Allyn & Bacon, Benjamin Cummings, PASeries, ELLis, Celebration Press, PEMSolutions, SuccessMaker, Waterford, and Family Education Network. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Upper Saddle River, NJ.

Lesaffre & Co. SA engages in the design, manufacture and market of solutions for baking, food taste & pleasure, health care and biotechnology. It operates in the following business segments: Research and development, Industrial excellence, Quality, Safety, Environment, Marketing and, Commercial. The company was founded by Louis Lesaffre and Louis Bonduelle in 1853 and is headquartered in Marcq-en-Baroeul, France.

CVC Advisers Ltd (CVC Advisers) is a private equity firm founded in 1981 by Bruce Hardy McLain, Rolly van Rappard and Steven Koltes. The firm is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

BOLT Solutions, Inc. offers online sales and client service platform for anyone to sell or buy insurance online. It develops and markets technology solutions for the insurance marketplace. The firm’s software enables customers, PandC insurance carriers, agents, brokers and wholesalers to transmit and receive data in real-time and leverage existing systems to automatically interact with one another. BOLT Solutions is software as a service and combines all the elements required to provide this experience within a powerful sales and distribution system that integrates people, processes, markets and technology. The company was founded in 2000 by Eric Gewirtzman and Ari Katz and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Lumesse (UK) Ltd. provides recruitment solutions. It offers talent acquisition, talent management, talent development. The company was founded by Jerome Ternynck and Frederic Trinel in 1999 and is headquartered in London. the United Kingdom.

Tikehau Capital Advisors SAS (TCA) is a private equity subsidiary of Tikehau Capital SAS founded in 2005 by Antione Flamarion and Mathieu Chabran. The firm is headquartered in Paris, France.

Omada A/S provides solutions for Identity and Access Management (IAM) and Identity and Access Governance (IAG). It delivers services within identity and access governance, risk management, compliance, role-based access management, and process governance. The firm develops solutions that are built on the Microsoft platform and empower Microsoft technologies. The company was founded by Morten Boel Sigurdsson, Thomas Boel Sigurdsson, and Morten Mygind in 1999 and is headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Runtime Collective Ltd. designs and develops social media monitoring tools and solutions. It offers Brandwatch Analytics, Vizia Platform, Brandwatch Audiences, and Brandwatch for Agencies. The company was founded by Giles John Palme in 1999 and is headquartered Brighton, the United Kingdom.

Serent Capital Management Co. LLC (Serent Capital Management) is a private equity firm founded in 2008 by David Kennedy and Kevin Frick. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Francisco Partners is a leading global private equity firm focused exclusively on investments in technology and technology-enabled businesses. The firm objective is to generate superior investment returns by partnering with the management teams facing strategic or operational inflection points and using differentiated experience, insight and resources to build value for shareholders, employees and customers. It provides transformational capital, working in close concert with management to reposition, recapitalize or otherwise rejuvenate companies, with an intense focus on corporate strategy, financial strategy, and recruiting and team building. It is active across a broad range of technology sectors, including semiconductors, and capital equipment, electronics components, systems and manufacturing, IT services and business process outsourcing, communications, security and enterprise application and infrastructure software.

CVC Capital Partners Advisory (US), Inc. manages capital on behalf of some 300 institutional, governmental and private investors worldwide. The capital of their investors is committed for ten years or more to closed-end funds that they manage on their client's behalf. In their private equity business, they use these funds to acquire controlling or significant minority interests in European, Asian and North American companies. They buy companies in partnership with their management teams and assist in developing plans to create sustainable long term value. In their private debt business, CVC Cordatus uses its funds to invest in debt instruments issued principally by companies that are owned by private equity funds. The company was established in 1981 and is headquartered in New York City, NY.

The Stephen Perse Foundation is an educational institution that provides educational services. The private company is based in Cambridge, UK and was founded in 1881.

Wireless Logic Group Ltd. provides machine-to-machine and Internet-of-Things platform. The company was founded by Oliver Robert Stewart Tucker and Philip Thomas Cole in 1999 and is headquartered in Maidenhead, the United Kingdom.

M-Files Oy provides enterprise information management software solutions. It eliminates information silos and provides quick and easy access to the right content from any core business system and device. The company was founded by Mikko Nivala on November 25, 1987 and is headquartered in Tampere, Finland.

M-Files, Inc. provides enterprise content management software. Its solutions include admin tools, authorized service providers, business, capture and OCR, UI extensions, analytics and compliance, integrations, import and export tools, search and navigation, and document vault templates. The company is headquartered in Plano, TX.

Fenergo Ltd. provides customer lifecycle management software solutions. Its platform is comprised of three core software solutions that enables financial institutions manage new and existing client data, documentation and regulatory requirements, ensuring compliance with risk and regulatory obligations throughout the entire lifecycle of the client. The firm's solutions include client and counterparty data and enterprise compliance management and client onboarding lifecycle tool. The company was founded by Marc Murphy in 2009 and is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.

Part of WL One Manco Ltd., WL One Holdco Ltd. functions as an investment holding British company. The company is based in Hurley, UK.

CleverConnect is a French company that was founded in 2007. The private company is based in Paris, France. CleverConnect operates Meteojob, which is a leading job matching site with over 358,262 job offers. Meteojob offers recruitment services, CV submission, training, and career development. The platform provides recent job offers, including the opportunity to find a job at Manuli Fluiconnecto.

Icario, Inc. is a health action company that leverages innovative technology, data science, and behavioral insights to improve health outcomes. The company is based in Minneapolis, MN and has subsidiaries in the United States. The company partners with health and wellness point solutions to drive enrollment and participation in personalized health action programs. Icario's health action programs are designed to meet the Medicare population where they are, moving them to take specific actions. The company's health platform focuses on healthcare risk assessments and HEDIS gap closure to mitigate member risk and provide quality. The platform combines demographic, clinical, and consumer data with behavioral science to personalize the member experience. Icario understands that it’s difficult to engage Medicaid members and has developed a framework for understanding this population to drive action. The company was founded in 2020 by Thomas C. Wicka. Marc Willard has been the CEO of the company since 2023.

OpenClassrooms SAS provides educational and training modules. It offers courses in communication, human resources, management, marketing, and design. The company was founded by Pierre Dubuc and Mathieu Nebra in 2007 and is headquartered in Paris, France.