Thibault Thevissen

CECP Advisors (CECP-UK) is the Great Britain-based venture capital subsidiary of global private equity investment group Carlyle Group LLC, ultimately held by the Carlyle Group LP (NASDAQ: CG) in the US. The group has additional offices throughout Europe in Barcelona, Frankfurt, Luxembourg, Milan, Munich, Paris, Stockholm and Warsaw. Formerly known as CECP Investment Advisors Ltd., the firm was established in 1997 and is based in London. They cooperate closely with Carlyle offices in Paris, Munich, Milan and Barcelona, sub-advising private equity funds for the parent group. They manage the Carlyle Europe Partners series of buyout funds, as well as venture capital funds, all domiciled in Luxembourg. Their international clientele includes public pension funds and agencies, financial institutions, high-net worth individuals and corporate pension schemes.

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.