About S-Group Capital Management Limited
S-Group Capital Management is backed by Alexey Mordashov, CEO and major shareholder of Severstal Group. S-Group Capital Management considers a wide variety of investment opportunities ranging from venture capital investments in high technology companies to developing strategic partnerships with international conglomerates in Russia. Geography of investments includes Russia, US and Europe.
Alexey Mordashov is the CEO and major shareholder of OAO Severstal, an international, vertically integrated steel producer with a listing on the RTS and the London Stock Exchange. Severstal has a successful track record of acquiring and integrating high-quality assets in North America and Europe. In 2007, Severstal produced 17.5 million tons of steel. Revenues were $15.2 billion and EBITDA was $3.7 billion.
NRW.BANK.Venture Fonds has been founded in 2004 to provide further capital for early stage financing in North Rhine-Westphalia. Focusing on sectors such as IT and communications, life sciences, optics and materials, the fund makes direct investments between € 0.5 and 3.0 million. As a co-investor, NRW.BANK Venture Fonds exclusively acquires minority investments in young companies that have already successfully completed a first financing round. For further information please visit www.nrwbank.de.
PEPPERMINT. Financial Partners is a venture capital firm located in Berlin, Germany. PEPPERMINT. was founded in 1994 as a turnaround management company. Based on a strong track record of restructuring a portfolio of 13 companies and selling them to international strategic investors. PEPPERMINT. gained a high reputation within the private equity community. Since starting its venture capital activities in 1999 PEPPERMINT. has focused on early-stage hightech-companies in German speaking countries that are the first in their kind, typically incorporating significant intellectual property and potential for long-term value creation. PEPPERMINT.'s team consists of 5 professionals with special expertise in Micro- and Nanotechnologies and Life Sciences. Through an intense entrepreneurial seed phase, we design and validate a suitable business model for the opportunity and assemble the initial management team and advisors who can lead the new venture into the next phase and beyond. For more information on PEPPERMINT, please visit www.peppermint-vc.de.
S-VentureCapital Dortmund GmbH, a 100 % subsidiary of Sparkasse Dortmund, is a regionally operating capital participation company. S-VentureCapital Dortmund GmbH focuses on the start-up-financing of innovative enterprises with high growth potentials. Owing to their sought-for technological superiority these enterprises contribute in particular to further strengthening and developing Dortmund. Because of the strong network of the Savings Bank Organization (the leading banking group in Germany) S-VentureCapital Dortmund GmbH gives its joint-venture enterprises full access to financing tools with which enterprise development can be implemented from the start-up stage to international expansion.
Jürgen Kurb is an electronics engineer with more than 30 years experience in the semiconductor industry. He has held management positions at ITT, Honeywell and Intel, focusing on the development of new market segments in the field of technically ambitious solutions. In 1989, he founded his own company – Micronas in Switzerland.
Throughout the evolution of Micronas, he has held positions as CEO and Chairman of the Board. He managed the international group which included Sales, Marketing and Design organizations in the US, Asia and Europe as well as manufacturing sites for semiconductors, sensors and SAW filters in Finland, Switzerland and Germany. One major milestone achieved was the successful IPO of Micronas on the Swiss Stock Exchange in 1996 with a market capitalization of 290 million Swiss Franks.
Robert “Bob” Young is a co-founding Managing Director of Mirador Capital LLC. Mirador Capital is a venture capital firm, which offers investors access to a diversified group of proven high-quality venture capital funds that are generally inaccessible to new investors. The firm focuses on venture capital partnerships which invest in both the IT and life sciences industries, broadly defined.
Previously, he was a senior partner and Managing Director at Dillon, Read & Co. Inc., an investment bank. He had corporate finance responsibility for information technology companies. He had previously served as the Managing General Partner of Dillon Read's venture capital funds from 1987 to 1994. During this period the funds invested over $300 million in start-up companies in information technology, biotechnology, energy and financial services. Bob's personally directed investments were among the most successful in the funds, including SanDisk, Tessera, Virtual Machine Works and Team Bank. From 1991 to 1995 Bob was also a Director of Barings Private Equity Partners, a global private equity firm headquartered in London.
Bob started his business career with IBM where, over an 18 year period, he held a number of management and executive positions in sales, marketing, engineering and general management. His last position at IBM was as President, IBM Instruments, a fully integrated global company with operations in the US and several European countries. IBM Instruments' products consisted of a broad range of scientific instruments and real-time scientific computers.
Bob is a founding investor and Director of Tessera (NASDAQ: TSRA), the leading semi-conductor interconnect technology company. He was also a Director of ATI Technologies (NASDAQ: ATYT), a leading producer of 3-D graphics and multimedia products for personal computers and consumer electronics.
Bob has served on the visiting committees of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the Department of Chemistry at MIT. He holds a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from MIT.
PolyTechnos Venture-Partners is an independent European venture capital firm focusing on privately held information technology and life science companies in early stages of development, predominantly in Europe. Areas of expertise comprise Information Technology (Communications & Networking, Electronics & Computer Hardware, and Semiconductors) and Life Sciences (Drug Development & MedTech), as well as opportunities arising from the convergence of these fields. PolyTechnos, located in Munich, Germany, was founded in 1998 and currently advises funds totalling approximately EUR 200 million. For more information on PolyTechnos, please visit www.polytechnos.com.
