Our investment philosophy is to work as a team, to make collaborative consensus decisions, and to enable portfolio executives to enjoy broad access to Sentinel's resources and the perspectives of our professionals. In establishing Sentinel Capital Partners, our goals were to build a mid market private equity investment firm that is:

Flexible, quick to respond, creative, and non-bureaucratic. Committed to working as a team both internally and with our portfolio companies. Focused on making a relatively small number of large new investments each year, and doing them exceedingly well. Optimistic in outlook, with the discipline and work ethic to help management reduce or eliminate business risk.

Like other well managed private equity firms, Sentinel operates as a team. Our private equity investment philosophy is to make decisions based on consensus and collaboration. Each Sentinel deal team consists of three or more professionals, at least two of whom join each portfolio company's board of directors. In contrast, the partners at many other private equity firms often work independently and even compete for resources. Sentinel's portfolio executives also benefit from the multiple perspectives of our professionals. To ensure that each Sentinel portfolio company gets the support needed to succeed, we make a limited number of new investments each year. Many middle market private equity and buyout firms make 40 or more investments per fund every three to five years. In contrast, Sentinel's investment philosophy is to make no more than 18 investments per fund. Because each of our investments represents a significant portion of Sentinel's total capital, this strategy closely aligns our interests with those of our management partners: we share a significant commitment to, and a vested interest in, the financial success of the portfolio company. Sentinel's investment strategy ensures that our companies and management partners get the attention and support they deserve. We do not interfere with the day-to-day management of our portfolio companies, nor do our employees go on the payrolls of these businesses. As board members and shareholders, we focus on developing strategy; identifying and advising on add-on acquisitions; optimizing balance sheet capitalization; structuring incentive compensation; and helping and advising senior management.