Philippe Rivard

SurePay is the initiator and leading provider of the IBAN-Name Check. Founded in 2016, the Dutch fintech pioneered this solution in the Dutch market in 2017 and has since expanded across Europe and the UK with its real-time Verification of Payee (VOP), Confirmation of Payee (CoP), and Fraud Risk Indicator (FRI) solutions. SurePay gives payers greater confidence that their payments are reaching the intended recipient, helping to prevent misdirected transfers — whether caused by fraud or human error. Its innovative services play a critical role in improving payment accuracy, reducing fraud, and supporting clients in meeting evolving compliance and regulatory demands. SurePay serves more than 200 banks and 750 corporate customers, and has processed over 10 billion payment checks to date. Its services fully align with the requirements of the upcoming EU regulation for Instant Payments and SEPA transactions, which mandates the implementation of VOP from autumn 2025. SurePay is already directly connected to hundreds of financial institutions and businesses across Europe and the UK. Through its partnership with SWIFT’s Payment Pre-validation service, SurePay’s solution has been available globally in over 200 countries since 2024. Fraud Prevention, Payment Protection, IBAN-Name Check, VoP Solution Supplier, Secure Transactions

Hack The Box is the Cyber Performance Center with the mission to provide a human-first platform to create and maintain high-performing cybersecurity individuals and organizations. Hack The Box is the only platform that unites upskilling, workforce development, and the human focus in the cybersecurity industry, and it’s trusted by organizations worldwide for driving their teams to peak performance. Offering an all-in-one environment for continuous growth, assessment, and recruitment, Hack The Box provides solutions for all cybersecurity domains. Launched in 2017, Hack The Box brings together the largest global cybersecurity community of more than 3 million platform members. Rapidly growing its international footprint and reach, Hack The Box is headquartered in the UK, with additional offices in the US, Australia, and Greece. For more information, please visit hackthebox.com

Carlyle (NASDAQ: CG) is a global investment firm with deep industry expertise that deploys private capital across three business segments: Global Private Equity, Global Credit, and Carlyle AlpInvest. With $477 billion of assets under management as of December 31, 2025, Carlyle’s purpose is to connect people, ideas, and capital to fuel growth for companies and performance for investors. Carlyle employs more than 2,500 people in 27 offices across four continents. Nothing herein constitutes an offer to sell, or a solicitation of an offer to buy, any security or product of Carlyle or any Carlyle-managed fund. Additional notices & disclaimers can be found here: https://www.carlyle.com/notices-and-disclaimers

Hanover was founded in 2002 with a simple investment philosophy: to invest in situations where we can influence the main levers of value creation by utilising deep research, employing an active approach to ownership and by drawing on a breadth of structuring expertise. This investment style has delivered consistent, market leading returns for over two decades. Headquartered in London Hanover is led by its Founder, Matthew Peacock, alongside an experienced team of investment professionals. Hanover has owned and operated dozens of public and private businesses across Europe and the United States, many of which have a global presence. Hanover puts a very strong emphasis on diversity of background and thought, something we believe makes for a better quality culture and decision making. Whilst we have different experiences, backgrounds and technical specialties, what we share is a vocation for understanding and improving businesses.

SilverTree Equity is a sector specialist private equity firm with a strong focus on value creation. SilverTree invests exclusively in software, technology, and technology-enabled businesses. We are differentiated by our sector specialism, deep network of operational resources and industry relationships, systematic yet tailored value creation process, and strong execution capability. We provide strategic, operational, and financial expertise to drive sustainable grow (both organically and through acquisition) and operational best practice through a partnership-driven approach. SilverTree is headquartered in London and has a team with deep investing and operational expertise in the software, technology, and tech-enabled business services sectors. Collectively the SilverTree team has been involved in over 50 transactions.

Vitruvian Partners is an international investment firm that supports the most ambitious and talented entrepreneurs and higher growth companies to achieve their goals. We invest in higher growth, dynamic situation buyouts and growth capital investments. We back exceptional entrepreneurs and management teams in companies creating sustainable high growth and strategic value. We invest between €40m-€600m+ in companies typically valued between €75m-€4bn+.

SurePay is the initiator and leading provider of the IBAN-Name Check. Founded in 2016, the Dutch fintech pioneered this solution in the Dutch market in 2017 and has since expanded across Europe and the UK with its real-time Verification of Payee (VOP), Confirmation of Payee (CoP), and Fraud Risk Indicator (FRI) solutions. SurePay gives payers greater confidence that their payments are reaching the intended recipient, helping to prevent misdirected transfers — whether caused by fraud or human error. Its innovative services play a critical role in improving payment accuracy, reducing fraud, and supporting clients in meeting evolving compliance and regulatory demands. SurePay serves more than 200 banks and 750 corporate customers, and has processed over 10 billion payment checks to date. Its services fully align with the requirements of the upcoming EU regulation for Instant Payments and SEPA transactions, which mandates the implementation of VOP from autumn 2025. SurePay is already directly connected to hundreds of financial institutions and businesses across Europe and the UK. Through its partnership with SWIFT’s Payment Pre-validation service, SurePay’s solution has been available globally in over 200 countries since 2024. Fraud Prevention, Payment Protection, IBAN-Name Check, VoP Solution Supplier, Secure Transactions

Phrase is a world leader in AI-led translation technology, helping organizations open the door to global business by reaching more people, making deeper connections and driving faster growth across different languages and cultures. The cloud-based Phrase Localization Platform comes equipped with all the key capabilities a business needs to drive a comprehensive localization strategy. From AI-driven machine translation and world leading translation management, to software localization, best in class workflow automation, quality evaluation and analytics. The Phrase Platform is there to connect, streamline and manage every possible translation task across the enterprise. That’s why brands like Uber, Shopify, Volkswagen, leading LSP and global SI partners, and thousands of others choose Phrase to help them form meaningful connections with millions of people to accelerate their global growth.

Hack The Box is the Cyber Performance Center with the mission to provide a human-first platform to create and maintain high-performing cybersecurity individuals and organizations. Hack The Box is the only platform that unites upskilling, workforce development, and the human focus in the cybersecurity industry, and it’s trusted by organizations worldwide for driving their teams to peak performance. Offering an all-in-one environment for continuous growth, assessment, and recruitment, Hack The Box provides solutions for all cybersecurity domains. Launched in 2017, Hack The Box brings together the largest global cybersecurity community of more than 3 million platform members. Rapidly growing its international footprint and reach, Hack The Box is headquartered in the UK, with additional offices in the US, Australia, and Greece. For more information, please visit hackthebox.com

Carlyle (NASDAQ: CG) is a global investment firm with deep industry expertise that deploys private capital across three business segments: Global Private Equity, Global Credit, and Carlyle AlpInvest. With $477 billion of assets under management as of December 31, 2025, Carlyle’s purpose is to connect people, ideas, and capital to fuel growth for companies and performance for investors. Carlyle employs more than 2,500 people in 27 offices across four continents. Nothing herein constitutes an offer to sell, or a solicitation of an offer to buy, any security or product of Carlyle or any Carlyle-managed fund. Additional notices & disclaimers can be found here: https://www.carlyle.com/notices-and-disclaimers