Tony Lorenz

Every industry — from finance to wellness — relies on in-person convening to strengthen the industry, share knowledge, and create deal flow. Yet until now, no one has treated these live experiences as investable assets. That’s where Events Venture Group (EVG) comes in. We’re a venture capital network of world-class event founders and operators — a braintrust that vets, funds, and actively advises the next generation of event entrepreneurs. For investors EVG is an educational and networking club fueling the success of groundbreaking entrepreneurs with access to strategic funding, expert mentorship, and our collaborative community of event seasoned members. For founders, we back early-stage event founders — usually 0 to 3 years in, who have the vision but need structure, and strategic support to grow sustainably. We’re the industry’s only hybrid (VC+PE) capital network dedicated to helping founders get ‘capital ready’ and exit strong. Reach us at info@eventsventuregroup.com

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ProActive, A Freeman Company is a uniquely positioned strategic communication and events agency providing best-in-class experiential marketing services to global organizations in virtually every major industry sector. Founded in 1992, the award-winning agency is headquartered in Chicago with an offices in New York and Washington, DC. The agency offers communications strategy and planning, creative direction and content development, event planning, production and measurement services. ProActive has strategic alliances with Guidestar Research, rEvolution, and Root Learning. In April 2007, ProActive became a subsidiary of Freeman (www.freemanco.com).

Explori helps marketing and event leaders turn complex audience and exhibitor feedback into clear, decision-ready intelligence. Through our event intelligence platform and research capabilities, we transform raw event data into strategic insight, enabling teams to understand performance, prove impact, and make smarter investment decisions with confidence. Our platform captures and benchmarks feedback at scale, combining structured survey intelligence with advanced analytics and global comparisons. The result: performance data that goes beyond anecdotal feedback and surface metrics, delivering clarity leaders can actually act on. Drawing on insight from more than 10,000 events worldwide, Explori provides the global benchmarks that put results into context across industries, regions, formats, portfolios, and year-on-year trends. From flagship conferences and large-scale expos to internal programmes and corporate event portfolios, we move organisations beyond isolated KPIs toward a deeper, evidence-led understanding of value, behaviour, and commercial impact. Our research and consulting teams complement the platform by supporting organisations with the design, analysis, and interpretation of event data, delivering everything from rapid insight reports to complex, multi-market, mixed-method studies. With offices across the USA, Dubai, Hong Kong, Germany and Italy, and research and product teams based in London, we combine global reach with local expertise. As the official research partner of UFI, Explori powers industry-wide insight with rigorous methodology and one of the world’s richest datasets on event experience. Trusted by organisations including Informa, Clarion Events, Zendesk, Veeam and Siemens, we help the world’s leading organisers and brands build more intelligent, accountable, and commercially effective event strategies.

Every industry — from finance to wellness — relies on in-person convening to strengthen the industry, share knowledge, and create deal flow. Yet until now, no one has treated these live experiences as investable assets. That’s where Events Venture Group (EVG) comes in. We’re a venture capital network of world-class event founders and operators — a braintrust that vets, funds, and actively advises the next generation of event entrepreneurs. For investors EVG is an educational and networking club fueling the success of groundbreaking entrepreneurs with access to strategic funding, expert mentorship, and our collaborative community of event seasoned members. For founders, we back early-stage event founders — usually 0 to 3 years in, who have the vision but need structure, and strategic support to grow sustainably. We’re the industry’s only hybrid (VC+PE) capital network dedicated to helping founders get ‘capital ready’ and exit strong. Reach us at info@eventsventuregroup.com

H.I.G. Capital (“H.I.G.”) is a leading global private investment firm with $74 billion in equity capital under management.* Since its founding more than 30 years ago, H.I.G. and its family of funds, spanning private equity, real estate, growth equity, and credit, have invested in and managed over 400 companies worldwide. Today, the firm oversees a portfolio of companies generating more than $53 billion in combined annual sales. H.I.G. specializes in providing capital to small and mid-sized companies with attractive growth potential. Its investments typically focus on management-led buyouts and recapitalizations of well-managed, profitable manufacturing and service businesses. The firm also has deep expertise in operational turnarounds and financial restructurings. H.I.G.’s proven investment strategy is built around three pillars: (1) a flexible and responsive approach that emphasizes speed and adaptability, (2) a large, skilled team with a collaborative, “can-do” mindset, and (3) a consistent and long-standing focus on small and mid-sized businesses, typically valued between $50 million and $500 million, with a clear understanding of their unique opportunities and challenges.* Headquartered in Miami, H.I.G. has U.S. offices in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, and Stamford, as well as affiliate offices in Europe (Hamburg, London, Luxembourg, Madrid, Milan, Paris), Latin America (Bogotá, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo), the Middle East (Dubai), and Asia (Hong Kong). *Based on total capital raised by H.I.G. Capital and its affiliates.

rEvolution is an independent, global and fully integrated sports marketing agency comprised of industry experts in consulting and business strategy alongside marketing and creative specialists who produce award-winning sponsorship and marketing campaigns for brands and rights holders throughout the global sports industry. Founded in 2001 with a focus on representing brands in sport, rEvolution’s global headquarters is in Chicago, with satellite offices in Indianapolis and Detroit and international headquarters in London. rEvolution’s unique intersection of strategy, creative and analytics helps brands drive business through sports, providing clients with a suite of integrated services, including sponsorship consulting, media planning and buying, creative, production and design, experiential marketing, hospitality, public relations, marketing communications, social media, research and analytics. Partial list of client partners includes American Family Insurance, AWS, Continental Tire, Capgemini, Chipotle, Lamborghini, McLaren Racing and Shell. rEvolution has garnered numerous industry accolades, including consistent presence on the Chief Marketer 200 and the Event Marketer Top 100 IT List. Additionally, rEvolution’s global headquarters has been listed on Crain’s Chicago Business “Coolest Offices in Chicago.” Learn more at www.revolutionworld.com or drop us a line at info@revolutionworld.com.

A HeadSail is the most forward sail on a boat, and typically the most powerful sail on the journey. Here, HeadSail creates valuable experiences and outcomes for professional and personal communities. This work has many facets at inflection points in a business across M&A ,advisory, Board and capital investment capacity