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Strategic Advisor and Independent Sponsor

H.I.G. Capital is a leading global private investment firm with $19 billion of capital currently under management.* H.I.G.'s family of funds includes private equity, real estate, growth equity and debt/credit. H.I.G. Capital has invested in and controlled over 200 organizations globally since it was founded more than 20 years ago. The firm currently manages a portfolio of companies with combined sales in excess of $30 billion. H.I.G. is based in Miami, with offices in New York, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Atlanta in the U.S., and affiliate offices in London, Hamburg, Madrid, Milan and Paris in Europe as well as Rio de Janeiro in South America.. H.I.G. focuses on providing capital to small and mid-sized businesses with attractive growth potential. The firm invests in management-led buyouts and recapitalizations of well-managed and profitable manufacturing and service businesses. H.I.G. Capital also has extensive experience with operational turnarounds and financial restructurings. The firm has a proven strategy built around; (1) a flexible investment approach which emphasizes speed as well as responsiveness; (2) a large team with unique skills and capabilities, as well as a "can-do" approach; (3) a long-standing focus on small and medium sized businesses typically from $50-500 million in value, as well as an understanding of the challenges and opportunities these business present. * Based on total capital commitments to funds managed by H.I.G. Capital and its affiliates. Specialties: private equity, growth equity, debt/credit, real estate and public equities

Caroline Kung is an experienced investment professional with an extensive track record of executing private equity transactions and value creation at portfolio companies. Caroline was a Managing Director at H.I.G. Capital where she closed 15 transactions across a variety of sectors including business services, managed IT services, enterprise software, chemicals, and healthcare services. She has served on the boards of Capstone Logistics (formed by the merger of Progressive Logistics Services and LMS Intellibound, sold to The Jordan Company), Cornerstone Chemical Company (sold to Littlejohn & Co), Infogix (acquired Agilis, sold to Thoma Bravo), DCL (formed by the merger of Dominion Colour Corporation and LANSCO Colors), Eze Castle Integration, Constructive Media (sold to Sandbox), and DHISCO (sold to RateGain). She was also involved with Align Networks (sold to General Atlantic) and Texas Honing (sold to Precision Castparts Corp). Prior to H.I.G., Caroline was an investment professional with GB Merchant Partners, a Boston-based private equity firm. Before that, Caroline was Director of Business Planning at Armani where she led retail intelligence efforts and supported merchandise and distribution strategy for Armani Collezioni. Caroline began her career in Mergers & Acquisitions at Merrill Lynch. Caroline has an A.B. in Psychology and East Asian Studies from Harvard College and an MBA from Harvard Business School. She also has an MBA in International Luxury Brand Management from ESSEC Business School in France.