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HGGC-Backed Grand Fitness Partners Expands California Presence with Acquisition of Eight Planet Fitness Locations - Yahoo Finance

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Data Management Company Denodo Receiving $336 Million From TPG - Pulse 2.0

Stanford University Graduate School of Business

The Wharton School

Investment Partner at HGGC

Buildertrend is a leading provider of cloud-based software for homebuilders, remodelers and specialty contractors.

Founded in 2006, Buildertrend is the leading construction management software platform for residential homebuilding, providing robust and modern construction management tools to more than 16,000 homebuilding, remodeling and specialty construction businesses, their sub-contractors and their clients. Over one million users rely on Buildertrend to run their businesses by standardizing scheduling and workflows, handling payments, purchase and change orders, and improving customer communication and visibility.

Buildertrend

Board Member

The Mountain Spring Foundation is a private family foundation focused on mental health and other charitable causes. Previous grantees include Wasatch Adaptive Sports, SEO (Sponsors for Educational Opportunity), Nayer and Javed Hanovar Memorial Foundation and St Jude Children's Research Hospital. 

Rather than relying on fundraising from outside donors, the foundation actively invests its balance sheet and is focused on high-return, long-term compounding as the core engine to fund its charitable giving activities.

The Mountain Spring Foundation

Co-Founder and President

Beauty Industry Group Beauty Industry Group (“BIG”) is a leading global supplier of professional-grade hair extensions and other beauty products.

BIG uniquely maintains a portfolio of various independent brands which serve separate channels and end users within the professional and direct-to-consumer beauty markets. BIG’s portfolio deploys a range of go-to-market strategies, including the use of ecommerce sites, direct sales to stylists and salons, national and independent beauty distributors and professional beauty retailors. From its founding in 2004, BIG has expanded sales to over 165 countries, more than 1,300 stores and over 300,000 unique salons, stylists and customers.

Beauty Industry Group

Act+Acre is a modern​ hair care​ wellness brand that exists to make you think differently about the health and care of your hair.

Act+Acre, Inc.

RPX is a leading provider of patent risk management solutions, serving over 320 clients in the technology, media, financial services and automotive sectors.

Founded in 2008, RPX provides an innovative subscription based service that lowers the cost of IP related litigation for its member clients, which include the largest and most important companies in the technology sector. In addition, the company provides high quality e-discovery solutions to corporate legal departments, law firms and government agencies through its Inventus subsidiary.

RPX Corporation

Better Being (fka Nutraceutical) is a whole-body wellness enterprise that develops, manufactures, markets and distributes trusted and beneficial vitamins, supplements, minerals and personal care products through a portfolio of differentiated brands.

The company was founded in 1993, however several of its brands, including its flagship brand Solaray, have track records well over 50 years. The company has since been a leader in the rapidly growing Vitamins, Minerals, and Supplements industry and has pioneered the development of natural products, serving customers across the globe.

The Better Being Co.

Denodo is the leader in data virtualization, providing real-time, high performance data integration and data abstraction.

Denodo’s innovative solution enables enterprise customers unparalleled ability to access unified business information across the broadest range of enterprise, cloud, big data, and unstructured data sources, along with real-time data services at half the cost of traditional approaches. Founded in 1999 by the current CEO, Angel Viña, Denodo is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, has an R&D hub in A Coruña, Spain, and sales offices around the world.

Denodo

Dynata is the premier global provider of data solutions and technology for consumer and B2B survey research. Dynata collects over 80 million individually completed surveys from more than 25 million active panelists annually utilizing online, mobile, and offline data collection. Using this first-party data, the Dynata provides several thousand customers with fast, accurate and valuable insights into the opinions, preferences, and behaviors of consumers and business professionals.

Dynata

Based in Palo Alto, California, HGGC is a leading private equity firm with over $5.5 billion in cumulative capital commitments focused on growth-oriented, relationship investing. Over its history, HGGC has completed 250 platform investments, add-on acquisitions, recapitalizations and liquidity events with an aggregate transaction value of over $30 billion.

Steven has been a Partner and member of the Investment Committee since 2019.

Prior Roles: Principal (August 2015 - March 2019) | Vice President (July 2013 - August 2015) | Associate (August 2009 - August 2011)

HGGC

Partner and Co-Chief Investment Officer

UTC is the collective force behind Utah’s technology ecosystem, giving technology companies a powerful, unified voice as it fosters support from business, government, education and community leaders. Technology CEOs and senior business leaders join UTC to impact the growth and vitality of their companies, strengthen the skills of their workers, gain valuable access to key resources, and positively impact the region in which they operate. Government organizations join UTC to stay tuned into the current needs of their powerful business constituents. Education leaders join UTC to stay up on requirements of the tech industry and design programs and curricula to prepare the rising workforce. Investors and financial institutions join UTC to ensure Utah’s business climate stays conducive to the success of their portfolio tech companies. Service providers join UTC to gain exposure to technology companies and help contribute to their success. By combining our voice as an industry, UTC is able help businesses grow faster in a vibrant, healthy technology ecosystem, which improves the likelihood of their success in Utah and attract talent to the state for high tech jobs.

Utah Technology Council (UTC)

Member of the Board of Trustees

Selligent is the world's leading independent provider of relationship marketing solutions. Selligent solutions powering customer relationships for Samsung, InterContinental Hotels Group, ING and more than 700 other major brands in retail, travel, automotive and financial services. Featuring enterprise-strength performance, Selligent's technology leads the industry in data management, campaign orchestration, and audience analytics. Selligent increases conversions and enhances engagement for mid-market to enterprise B2C marketers with its ability to deliver integrated, customer-centric experiences across email, display, mobile, and social. Selligent serves more than 30 countries globally, including more than 75 agencies and MSPs. Selligent has offices in Silicon Valley, New York, London, Belgium, Paris, Munich, Barcelona, and Australia.

Selligent

Serena provides orchestrated application development and release management solutions to the Global 2000. The company's 2,500 active enterprise customers, including a majority of the Fortune 100, have made Serena the largest independent ALM vendor and the only one that orchestrates DevOps, the processes that bring together application development and operations.  Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Serena serves enterprise customers across the globe.

Steven Leistner