PEREP Analytics Appoints Three New Board Members

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PEREP_Analytics appoints three new board members

Brussels, 4rd February 2009

PEREP_Analytics, a pan-European private equity data platform, has added three new board members to its governing board.

The appointments include an insititutional investor and two academics, and bring the total number of board members to nine.

 Sergey Sheshuryak is a partner at Adam Street Partners, an institutional investment firm. He specializes in venture capital fund investments in Europe and sits on the advisory boards of ten private equity firms within the Adams Street Partners portfolio.

 Sophie Manigart is a full professor at the department of Accounting & Corporate Finance at Ghent University and partner at the Vlerick Leuven Ghent Management School.

 Peter Roosenhoom is a full professor of Entrepreneurial Finance and Private Equity and a CFA Program Director at RSM Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands.

The candidates were voted by the Election Committee, consisting of the heads of all PEREP-endorsing national associations.

“ The addition of two specialist industry academics and one of Europe’s leading fund investors is a great endorsement for PEREP_Analytics,” said Professor Christoph Kaserer of the Technical University of Munich, and chairman of PEREP_Analytics. “These appointments attest to the independence of the platform, and their expertise will provide further assurance that its output continues to be robust and relevant.”

The governing board of PEREP_Analytics assesses the demand and relevance of research projects, and audits the processes and methodology of data gathering and publication.

Since PEREP_Analytics was launched in 2007, 16 national private equity and venture capital associations in Europe, as well as the pan-European association EVCA, have committed to undertaking their data collection exercises through this platform. In addition, the completion of PEREP_Analytics’s activity survey became compulsory for all members of EVCA, further enhancing the quality of the data. Ends For further information:

Ross Butler Head of Communications EVCA + 32 2 22 02 30 [email protected] www.perepanalytics.eu

Notes to editors:

PEREP_Analytics was launched in 2007 as Europe’s independent pan-European data collection platform. In addition to the three new appointments, the board includes:

- Prof. Christoph Kaserer of the Technical University in Munich - Prof. Stefano Caselli of Bocconi University in Milan - Prof. Markku Maula of the Helsinki University of Technology - Prof. Mario Levis of the Cass Business School in London - Prof. Philippe Desbrieres of Université de Bourgogne - Mr. Bernard Felix of Eurostat in Luxembourg

The private equity and venture capital associations endorsing PEREP_Analytics are:

 APCRI Portuguese Private Equity and Venture Capital Association  AVCO Austrian Private Equity and Venture Capital Association  BVA Belgian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association  BVK German Private Equity and Venture Capital Association  CVCA Czech Venture Capital and Private Equity Association  DVCA Danish Venture Capital and Private Equity Association  EVCA European Private Equity and Venture Capital Association  FVCA Finnish Venture Capital Association  HVCA Hungarian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association  IVCA Irish Venture Capital Association  NVCA Norwegian Venture Capital Association  NVP Dutch Venture Capital and Private Equity Association  PPEA Polish Private Equity Association  SECA Swiss Private Equity and Corporate Finance Association  SEEPEA South Eastern Europe Private Equity Association  SLOVCA Slovak Venture Capital and Private Equity Association  SVCA Swedish Private Equity & Venture Capital Association

The 2008 Preliminary fundraising and investment figures will be released at the EVCA Investors’ Forum in Geneva, 12th-13th March 2009.