About Blue Star

Blue Star is New Zealand’s largest full service commercial printing company, providing solutions across web offset, sheet-fed and digital printing and associated services. Its customers include leading New Zealand and multinational companies, government departments and agencies. Blue Star employs ~700 staff across nine facilities throughout New Zealand.

Blue Star was sold to Peninsula Packaging Limited in January 2024.

www.bluestargroup.co.nz

Samara Insoll

Investment Director

About Samara

10 years of private equity and investment banking experience including three years at Goldman Sachs, Australia before joining Mercury Capital in 2015

Experience across a range of transactions advising clients in the consumer, retail, healthcare and financial institutions sectors

Involved in investments into Nexus, International Volunteer HQ, MessageMedia, Squiz, TEG and Avive

Holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Valedictorian, First Class Honours) from Bond University and a Graduate Certificate in Mathematical Sciences (First Class Honours) from the Queensland University of Technology. Samara is also a member of the Australian Investment Council Diversity & Inclusion Advisory Committee.

About Fiftyfive5

The merger of FiftyFive5 and GalKal facilitated by Mercury Capital creates Australia’s largest independent market and customer insight consultancy. The business has offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Auckland and Singapore, a team of 200 and more than 250 clients across 40 countries serving multiple industries including financial services, telecommunications, FMCG, media and entertainment, social and government and healthcare.

Fiftyfive5 was acquired by Accenture in December 2022.

https://fiftyfive5.com/

About Matrix Education

Matrix Education is a private education business that provides out-of-school tutoring classes to more than 7,000 school students per year across five Sydney campuses and via an online learning platform, Matrix+.

Matrix is a leader in the Sydney tutoring market and supports the educational journey of a large proportion of New South Wales’ top performing secondary school students each year. The business is now embarking on an exciting period of growth involving new campuses, geographic expansion, establishment of tutoring programmes for primary school students, and enhanced online offerings.

Mercury acquired a 60% shareholding in Matrix in Feb 2023.

www.matrix.edu.au

About International Volunteer HQ

IVHQ is the world’s leading volunteer and internship travel organisation placing 18,000 volunteers and interns per year and more than 120,000 since 2007. IVHQ offers the broadest range of affordable volunteer and intern adventure experiences with more than 300 volunteer and 200 internship projects across more than 50 destinations in over 40 countries. IVHQ is a values-led organisation and a Certified B-Corp who are proud to have built long term partnerships with local communities and an unrivalled safety record for volunteers and interns. IVHQ’s passion is to provide immersive and meaningful travel experiences for volunteers and interns while contributing to projects that make a difference to local communities.

Mercury acquired a 75% shareholding in IVHQ in December 2017.

www.volunteerhq.org

About Avive

Avive Health is a specialist mental health hospital operator based in Sydney, Australia. The business is establishing and will operate state of the art, purpose built, mental health hospitals across Australia. Avive Health partners with leading psychiatrists to deliver world class care to its diverse patient base across a range of clinical diagnoses with a focus on addiction, mood and anxiety disorders amongst others. Mercury is partnered in the investment with the deeply experienced founders, management team and Foundation Doctor Shareholders.

Mercury acquired a 48% shareholding in Avive Health in January 2023.

avivehealth.com.au

About Justina

Justina is an accountant with over 15 years of experience, Justina previously worked at Blackbird Ventures, Pacific Equity Partners, Macquarie Group and the Reserve Bank of Australia. At Mercury, Justina will be looking after the financial operations of Mercury Capital Fund twenty2.

Justina is a member of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand, and a CFA charterholder.

Rose Redmayne

Compliance and Operations

About Rose

Rose previously worked at Goldman Sachs JBWere within the Principal Investment Area assisting with the operation of the private equity and mezzanine debt funds.

Rose assists with the office administration, compliance and operations for Mercury Capital.

About Danielle

Danielle joined Mercury Capital as Office Manager in 2022.

Prior to this Danielle worked at Jefferies Australia developing her skills in business and facility management.

Danielle provides support to the investment team.

About Dominic

Previously a consultant at Bain & Company, before joining Mercury Capital in 2022, having worked on buy-side/sell-side transactions, growth strategy and performance improvement across a range of industries (technology, consumer products, transportation, and energy & natural resources) and geographies (Australia, Europe, and Asia).

Holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) and Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Canterbury.

Dean Pagonis

Investment Manager

About Dean

Combined 8 years of private equity and consulting experience including four years at Boston Consulting Group (Melbourne and New York) before joining Mercury Capital in 2018

Involved with Fund 3 investments into Squiz, ResourceCo, E&P, Architectus, and Re.Group, and currently serves on the board of ResourceCo.

Holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Valedictorian, Honours in Economics) from the University of Melbourne.

About Clark

Clark founded Mercury Capital in 2010 and is the Chairman of the Mercury Capital Funds and the Chief Executive of Mercury Capital, the Manager of each Fund.

Clark has worked in investment markets for over 30 years, which includes over 20 years of private equity experience. He was Head of the Merchant Banking Division of Goldman Sachs JBWere, and Executive Chairman of GSJBW’s Private Equity Funds, Hauraki No 1, Hauraki No 2 and Trans-Tasman PE Fund. Total of 14 years with GSJBW, including Director of GSJBW Australia, member of the Management Committee, and Chairman and CEO of GSJBW NZ

Clark is Chairman of Tamaki Health, director of Blue Star, Squiz, TEG, Are Media, ResourceCo and Re.Group and board observer in E&P Financial Group

Holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Auckland

About MessageMedia

MessageMedia is a leading global customer engagement platform providing software to businesses that enables the management and delivery of two-way messaging communication. MessageMedia is the largest SME focused platform globally with 60,000 customers worldwide and over 26,000 customers in the large US market. MessageMedia sent more than 5 billion messages via its gateway in FY21 across Australia, New Zealand, the United States and the United Kingdom.

MessageMedia was acquired by Sinch in November 2021.

MessageMedia.com.au

About James

Previously a consultant at Bain & Company, before joining Mercury Capital in 2020. Experience advising on private equity transactions and growth strategy across industries such as consumer goods, financial services, technology, and sport.

Involved with investments into Green Options and Architectus, and currently serves on the board of Architectus.

Holds a Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Auckland.

About Hexagon

Hexagon Holdings (Hexagon) was formed by Mercury Capital through the acquisitions of Kiwi Labels, Rapid Labels, Hally Labels and Adhesif Labels. The business is Australasia’s leading label printer and benefits from a diverse customer base and deep expertise in several attractive market niches. The Hexagon businesses employ approximately 500 staff across eight production facilities.

Hexagon was acquired by Multi-Colour (New Zealand) in October 2021.

www.hexagonholdings.co.nz

About Australian Animal Hospitals

Australian Animal Hospitals (AAH) is the largest veterinary services group in the Perth and Adelaide metropolitan markets operating 20 large full service clinics. AAH is focused on serving the companion animal market and enjoys strong customer loyalty, being recognised as the market leader in the delivery of high quality clinical care. The business employs approximately 100 staff with its head office based in Perth.

Australian Animal Hospitals was acquired by Vet Partners in February 2017.

www.vetwest.com.au

About Nexus

Nexus Day Hospitals (Nexus) is the second largest day hospital operator in Australia with 12 facilities located across Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Hobart, Perth, Albury, Newcastle and Canberra. Mercury invested into Nexus to facilitate the acquisition by Nexus of National Day Surgeries, to create a larger group. The combined business operates across five main medical craft groups (ophthalmic, gastro, plastic, orthopaedic and pain) with high quality surgical facilities and a management team with deep industry experience. Mercury was partnered in the investment by approximately 70 shareholder doctors.

Nexus was acquired by QIC in November 2019.

www.nexusdayhospitals.com.au

About Novotech

Novotech is Asia’s leading independent full service contract research organisation (CRO). Novotech’s core business is to provide outsourced clinical trial management services to US and European biotech and pharmaceutical companies. These services include feasibility, trial regulatory and ethics approval, investigator and site management, and ensuring compliance with highly prescriptive trial protocols and regulations. Novotech manages the Australian and Asian elements, providing its customers with access to one of the world’s largest and fastest growing healthcare markets. Novotech currently employs 300 staff across a network of 14 offices in 12 countries.

Novotech was acquired by TPG Capital in September 2017.

www.novotech-cro.com

About Estia Health

Estia Health Care is one of Australia’s largest Aged Care businesses with staff of over 4,000 operating across 50 residential facilities. Mercury’s investment into Estia Health Care, together with the acquisition of Padman and Cook Care, created a diversified national business with significant presence in the NSW, Queensland, SA and Victorian markets. Estia Health Care listed on the ASX in December 2014 and since has been an active consolidator in the industry continuing its strategy of acquiring and integrating aged care facilities as a key growth enabler.

Estia was listed on the Australian Securities Exchange in December 2014.

www.estiahealth.com.au

About Health Strong

HealthStrong is a leading provider of allied health services into the Australian market. Based in Sydney, HealthStrong employs over 250 allied health practitioners including physiotherapists and occupational therapists. These staff deliver essential pain management and functional physiotherapy services to a large group of for-profit and not-for-profit residential aged care facilities and community care providers across Australia.

HealthStrong was acquired by Medibank in June 2017.

www.healthstrong.com.au

About Crushing Industries

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