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Private Equity STEFAN GOETZ | HELLMAN & FRIEDMAN Managing Director SPEAKER BIO Mr. Goetz is a Managing Director at Hellman & Friedman based in the Firm's London office. He is a Director of Securitas Direct and Scout24. He was formerly a Director of Associated Materials, LLC.Prior to joining the Firm in 2007, Mr. Goetz was an Executive Director in the Principal Investments Area of Goldman Sachs International in London. Previously, he worked at McKinsey & Co. in Germany. Mr. Goetz graduated with Distinction with a Masters in Electrical Engineering from RWTH Aachen and Ecole Centrale Paris and earned an MBA from Kellogg Graduate School of Management. He is fluent in English and German. KEY CORPORATE FACTS& KPIs COMPANY OVERVIEW Headquarters San Francisco, USA Hellman & Friedman focuses on investing in businesses with strong, defensible franchises and predictable revenue and earnings growth and which generate high levels of free cash flow or Office Locations New York, London attractive returns on the capital reinvested in the business. We generally invest in businesses with strong operating management teams already in place; however, if needed, we have Founded 1984 experience in attracting new managers to supplement or replace existing teams. H&F has been able to find businesses with these characteristics in a number of industries including No of Employees 110 many in the service sector of the economy. As a result, we have become a leading private equity investor in the media, financial services, professional services, vertical software and Active Markets USA,Europe information services industries, and it continually works to identify additional industries and Business Overview Private equity investor companiesthat share thesetraits. While adhering to its philosophy on the characteristics it targets in potential investments, H&F Recent Milestones Raised $10.9bn for the latest fund in 2014 has remained flexible as to the ultimate form and structure of its investments. We have experience investing both as a controlling shareholder and as an influential minority investor, Total Assets 36bn and have invested at different levels of the capital structure and in a variety of transaction structures, including buyouts, restructurings and numerous types of minority investments. Key Investments Renaissance Learning, Scout 24 Notable Exits SSP, Wood McKenzie Website hf.com 57

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