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.

Clark Perkins

Chairman of No. 1 Fund, Fund 2 and 3, and CEO of the Manager

About Clark

Clark founded Mercury Capital in 2010.  Mercury initially raised a A$120m Fund in mid 2010, followed by a subsequent A$300m Fund in 2015 and the current A$600m in 2018.  Clark is the Chairman of the Mercury Capital Funds and the Chief Executive of Mercury Capital, the Manager of each Fund.  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 Message Media, Hexagon, Tamaki Health and Are Media and a director of Blue Star, Squiz and TEG

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 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 100,000 since 2007. IVHQ offers the broadest range of affordable volunteer and intern adventure experiences with more than 200 projects across more than 60 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.

www.volunteerhq.org

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.

www.hexagonholdings.co.nz

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 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.

www.bluestargroup.co.nz

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 MessageMedia

MessageMedia is Australasia’s largest business to person messaging company with international operations in the United States and the United Kingdom. MessageMedia has ~40,000 customers including sole traders, SMEs, enterprise and government; with focus on SME businesses. MessageMedia sent ~2.0 billion messages via its gateway in FY18 across Australia, New Zealand, the United States and the United Kingdom

https://www.messagemedia.com.au/

About Fiftyfive5

The merger of FiftyFive5 and GalKal facilitated by Mercury Capital creates Australia’s largest independent customer insights company. The business has offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Auckland and Singapore, a team of 115 and more than 130 clients across 40 countries serving multiple industries including financial services, telecommunications, FMCG, media and entertainment, social and government and healthcare.

https://fiftyfive5.com/

About Crushing Industries

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