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Summit Partners

How We Help

Services on Demand: we are there where and when you need us. As board members, advisors and through our portfolio resource teams, we help you:

Recruited life sciences entrepreneur Ken Fong, founder of Clontech, to the board >>

Helped recruit a board with experience in building acquisition platform companies >>

Assisted in establishing a board of directors and formalizing corporate governance >>

Recruited a senior executive from Kraft to provide crucial supply chain perspective to Board of Directors >>
360T Group

Helped expand international presence, assisting in recruiting a new U.S. leadership team and building the sales team >>

Established sales offices in China and North America and helped acquire several distributors >>

Completed two key acquisitions that expanded geographic footprint >>

Helped grow from a regional U.S. business to a global organization operating in 40+ countries >>

Worked with management to position NetWitness as a robust enterprise platform >>

Helped develop strategy for entering new greeting card and book categories >>

Broadened product portfolio into an integrated service assurance offering for mobile backhaul, datacenter and enterprise connectivity >>

Provided strategic guidance in formulating and executing Infor’s SaaS strategy >>

Guided the management team through the IPO process and provided introductions >>

Helped develop robust KPI tracking and create a detailed model to prepare and position Wellcentive for a strategic sale >>

Managed process with acquirer Ingenico, enabling management to stay focused on the business >>

Helped in selection of investment bankers for IPO, and counseled on merger negotiations >>

Made customer introductions as NetWitness expanded from government focus to major global accounts >>

Helped optimize sales force and develop the sales operations function to manage global scale >>

Collaborated with management to expand and optimize the global sales organization >>

Created a proprietary statistical model aimed at improving patient conversion rates to newly affiliated practices >>

Worked closely with founders to scale organization, helping to recruit a CEO, CMO, CFO, CTO and CRO >>

Assisted in recruiting a CFO, and heads of e-commerce, analytics, and marketing >>

Built-out a senior management team with high-caliber talent, including CFO and COO >>

Assisted in building out the senior management team, including recruiting an experienced CFO >>

Worked with management to upgrade systems and reporting to public company levels >>
HealthSun

Helped build a “public company” infrastructure to strengthen corporate governance and improve financial reporting >>

Established the corporate infrastructure necessary to create an acquisition and growth platform >>

Assisted with the development of world-class financial and KPI reporting >>

Identified, evaluated and developed 20+ acquisition opportunities outside the core U.K. market >>
Independent-Vetcare

Helped management develop and deploy a post-merger “playbook” to optimize integration of acquisitions >>

Optimized the M&A process, developing a pipeline of high-priority targets and supporting the execution of ten transactions >>

Helped develop an accretive acquisition strategy to enter faster growth markets, including photonics/optical networking >>

Assisted in raising a $100 million revolving credit line to facilitate the company’s acquisition pace >>

Helped raise institutional debt, assisting with rating agency process and marketing to investors >>

Amended and upsized existing senior credit facility, providing additional capital to support acquisitions >>

Summit’s Capital Markets team orchestrated two debt capital financings, providing liquidity to support growth >>

Michael George, CEO of Continuum, with John Carroll

Portfolio Resource Teams

When you partner with Summit, you gain access to specialized resources designed to leverage expertise and experience critical to rapid growth companies.

Peak Performance Group

The Peak Performance Group (PPG) works collaboratively with management teams to identify and execute growth initiatives that build long-term value. An experienced team with deep functional expertise across revenue optimization, growth marketing, technology and M&A, the PPG is a free, flexible, on-demand resource that focuses on engagements to improve operational efficiency, grow revenues and strengthen infrastructure.


Talent & Recruiting Team

Our Talent & Recruiting Team works with portfolio companies to identify and recruit high-impact senior executives and board members, advise on best practices in talent development and advance human capital strategy.


Capital Markets Team

The Capital Markets Team helps portfolio companies structure capital markets transactions to support growth initiatives, providing access to the best execution, pricing and structuring available.


Technology & Data Science Team

Our Technology & Data Science Team works with portfolio companies to assist software engineering and product management teams with strategy, organization design, product evaluation, and execution.

Meet Our Portfolio Resource Teams

Executive-in-Residence Program

Executives-in-Residence work closely with Summit investment teams and portfolio companies on sector-specific opportunities and can assist companies in an ongoing capacity through board or leadership roles.

Greg Hartmann, CEO of National Veterinary Associates with Dave Averett

Helping you realize value: our investment history speaks for itself.

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