Thomas Hoch

EVP Capital Management AG (EVP) is the venture capital arm of Switzerland-based Co-Investor AG. Formerly known as equinet Venture Partners, the firm was formally established in 1998 and is located in Frankfurt. EVP manages venture capital funds including the EAP Start-Fonds sponsored by the government-controlled KfW Bankengruppe, and the VRP fund (Venture Capital Rheinland-Pfalz) sponsored by the regional development agency ISB-Investitions- und Strukturbank Rheinland-Pfalz and by the regional bank Landesbank Rheinland-Pfalz, as well as by leading insurance companies and corporations. EVP is also active in the secondary market. In 2004 the firm took over the management of Heptagon Capital Beteiligungsgesellschaft der Freien Sparkassen mbH on behalf of the seven independent German savings banks.

equinet Bank AG provides investment banking services. The firm acts as a broker, trade stocks, derivatives and fixed-income securities on behalf of German and foreign banks, investment companies, insurers and investment fund companies. The company was founded by Lutz Weiler in 1999 and is headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany.

iTAC Software AG provides software solutions. It offers serves the automotive industry, medical technologies, metal processing industry, energy and utilities industry, and electronics industry. The firm's products are manufacturing execution system (MES) suite, embedded systems, smart devices and enterprise framework. The company was founded by Dieter Meuser, Volker Burch and Christine Lahnstein in 1998 and is headquartered in Montabaur, Germany.

SYSGO AG engages in the design, development, implementation, and configuration of device software for the embedded market. It specializes in embedded operating systems for the aerospace and defense, automotive, as well as railway industries. The firm also provides services such as software installation and orientation, design of partitioning, assistance with creating security- or safety-critical code, software integration, legacy application and infrastructure migration, as well as process compliance. The company was founded by Knut Degen in 1991 and is headquartered in Klein-Winternheim, Germany.

AURELIUS Equity Opportunities SE & Co. KGaA invests in lower middle market companies located across the Europe with revenues of € 30 - € 1,000 million. The fund target companies operating in the fields of industrial & chemicals, lifestyle & consumer goods, IT and business services. It provides financing for corporate carve-outs, add-on acquisitions, platform build-ups and complex buy-outs with an investment size of up to EUR 100 million and also takes controlling position.

COI Partners AG (COI Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 2000. The firm is headquartered in Zurich.

ICE AGE ICE AG manufactured crushed ice cubes in Germany. The firm supplied the food retailing, hypermarkets, beverage market chains, gas stations and major supermarkets and wholesale customers. Its products were ice cubes, crushed ice, premium ice cubes, Ice Age Ice Sneky, Illy issimo, Ice Age Ice thermo box. The company was founded in 2003 and was headquartered in Maintal, Germany.

Aurelius (Private Equity) (Aurelius) is a pan-European alternative investment arm of Aurelius Group founded in 2005 by Dirk Markus and Gert Purkert. It is headquartered in Munich, Germany with additional offices in London, Luxembourg, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Madrid, Milan and Düsseldorf.