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 middle 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 four or more professionals, at least three of whom join each portfolio company's board of directors. Each portfolio company has full access to Sentinel's resources and 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 10 or more investments per year. In contrast, Sentinel's investment philosophy is to make only three-to-four investments per year. Because each of our investments represents a more 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 professionals 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 attractive incentive compensation arrangements that align interests; and helping and advising senior management.