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At Audax Private Debt, Environmental, Social, and Governance (“ESG”) principles have been an important factor in our investment decision making and our management process since our inception. Vortex Companies is a provider of trenchless infrastructure rehabilitation products and services. Prior to Blackstone’s acquisition of GSO Capital in 2008, Colleen joined GSO with a team from the RBC Capital Markets’ Debt Investments Group. Rich is a Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer for Audax Group, based in Boston. Prior to joining Audax 1999, Rich was the Chief Financial Officer of Streamline.com, a publicly traded Internet service company.

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Founded in 1913 and headquartered in Cedar Rapids, IA, HR Green supports its public and private sector clients on projects across a wide range of end-markets, including transportation, water, municipal advisory, broadband, and land development. Through its depth of engineering expertise and experience, the Company offers industry-leading technical solutions that help to build and improve communities across the Midwest, South, Mountain West, and California. Over the past 17 years, Joe has been involved with more than 30 of Audax’ platform companies.

Adam is a Managing Director at Audax Private Debt, overseeing our unitranche and junior debt investment teams. Steve is the Co-Head of Originated Debt at Audax Private Debt, overseeing our unitranche and junior debt investment Mary Hoover Drucker teams. Over the last 24 years, we have raised around $31 billion of capital across our senior debt, unitranche, and junior debt strategies to provide financing solutions for middle market, private equity-backed companies.
Prior to joining Audax in 2021, Glenn was a Managing Director at Alcentra, where he was responsible for both marketing and client service to institutional investors. He also previously worked at Guggenheim Partners, Babson Capital, and Wellington Management where he developed relationships with institutional investment consulting firms. These rankings should not be considered an endorsement of Audax or its funds by the authors or distributors of the rankings. Since joining Audax in 2000, Young has invested in more than 40 Audax platform companies. Young primarily focuses on business services, specialty distribution, and medical devices and products. Prior to joining Audax, Young was with Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Tom Noto is a Managing Director at Audax Private Debt, and a member of our senior debt investment team. Rob is a Principal at Audax Private Debt, and a member of our senior debt investment team. Even in benign environments, mezzanine debt holds unique appeal, with attributes that senior-only facilities don’t provide. Mezzanine, today, is being used by sponsors not just for new platform financing arrangements but also portfolio company expansion, when sponsors need to fund M&A but are reluctant to reprice existing credit facilities at today’s higher rates. Tim is an Analyst at Audax Private Debt, and a member of our senior debt investment team. Pieter is a Vice President at Audax Private Debt, and a member of our senior debt investment team.
Audax has or may provide certain of the parties above with de minimis compensation to make use of such awards and recognition. Prior to Audax, Mr. Wolpow was a General Partner and Managing Director of Bain Capital. He was previously employed at Drexel Burnham Lambert and Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, where he began his career and focused on leveraged finance. Marc Wolpow is Co-Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Audax Group and Executive Chairman of Audax Private Debt.

Borrowers can attach mezzanine facilities behind various senior debt levels and ultimately utilise more leverage than all-senior deals. In an uncertain rate environment, the fixed-rate options of mezzanine structures provide an interest-rate hedge, instilling more certainty for borrowers in a dynamic and evolving market. The increase in the cost of capital for floating-rate debt is also driving weaker fixed-charge coverage and interest coverage ratios. But to fully appreciate the pick-up in the mezzanine market, it helps to understand the factors influencing other areas of debt financing. Banks and other senior debt lenders have reduced their risk appetite and pulled back on their commitment sizes.
We endeavor to create lasting value with our commercial activities and within our communities. Audax Private Debt announced that it participated in a unitranche credit facility to support the refinancing and acquisition of Qlarion by Sagewind Capital’s portfolio company, GCOM Software (“GCOM” or the “Company”). Audax Group manages capital for investors worldwide, making investments through the full capital structure of the U.S. middle market. The common thread across each of our business lines is a dedicated focus to support middle market companies. As our investment operations and businesses have scaled, our dedication to this segment remains unchanged, creating a competitive advantage and edge to source, support, and help grow middle market companies. The demand for mezzanine today, from borrowers as well as other lenders, is fuelled by the flexibility this form of financing provides.
Chelsea is a Principal at Audax Private Debt, overseeing portfolio management for our Originated Debt platform. Prior to joining Audax in 2009, Alex was a Manager of Business Development at Arrowstreet Capital, where he built relationships with institutional investors on a global basis. Prior to Arrowstreet, Alex was a Principal at Hamersley Partners, where he helped emerging managers raise capital.

With the successful closing of Mezz Fund V, Audax Private Debt will continue to execute on its proven strategy of directly sourcing junior debt investments in private equity sponsor-backed companies in North America. With DLS, Audax Private Debt continues its proven strategy of directly sourcing debt investments in private equity sponsor‐backed middle market companies. The Fund enables Audax Private Debt to utilize its senior and junior debt underwriting expertise to provide unitranche and stretch senior financings of up to $175 million per transaction. Peter is a Managing Director at Audax Private Debt, overseeing our unitranche and junior debt investment teams. He is responsible for originating and executing new investments and monitoring portfolio companies.
Along with his business partner, Geoff Rehnert, Mr. Wolpow manages the firm and has overseen all phases of Audax Group’s development since its founding in 1999. Prior to starting Audax Private Debt in 2000, Kevin was a Managing Director in the Leveraged Finance/Merchant Banking Group at CIBC World Markets Corp. He also previously worked at Drexel Burnham Lambert, Wasserstein Perella and Kidder Peabody, principally in a leveraged finance role. Audax Private Debt achieved the highest position in PitchBook’s 2023 Annual U.S. PE Lending League Tables, securing the #1 spot as the most active lender in U.S. PE. Additionally, the firm is proud to have attained the #1 rank in both the “Overall” and “Select Roles” lists of PitchBook's 2023 U.S.