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Don Meltzer
CEO, American Pad & Paper LLC
My first year in the role of Ampad CEO was filled with challenges, from building an effective leadership team and addressing severe commercial and operational weaknesses to navigating through troubled financial waters. Ampad just completed its fiscal year as a profitable, cash positive and customer satisfying business. I attribute this success to three key enablers, 1) the individual character and expertise of the members of the Ampad team, 2) financial support from Arcapita and 3) the support provided by the Arcapita Portfolio Management team in helping Ampad develop its strategy as well as tactical plans for managing through the aforementioned situations of commercial and operational weaknesses. I am confident in Ampad's ability to achieve the financial commitment spelled out in our 2007 Operating Plan as well as position the business to achieve future investor goals. The Arcapita Portfolio Management team is no small part of our success.
Janine Adamski
Director of Human Resources, American Pad & Paper LLC
Arcapita’s Portfolio Management Group has provided our organization with a number of best-in-class tools for Strategic Planning and People Development purposes. In addition, the professional expertise and support they provide, along with these tools really goes above and beyond the traditional investment firm/portfolio company relationship.
Lori Daugherty
President and CEO, Working Rx
The Strategic Initiative process, along with the comprehensive team training that has been incorporated into our Company by the Portfolio Management Group, has produced a very results-oriented environment. Our team has become much better at assessing and evaluating our situation, which in turn helps us to set our strategic priorities and initiatives. Our actions as a result of this process are creating a more positive and predictable future for WorkingRx!
Joel Deaton
Vice President of Human Resources, Working Rx
During the past two years, Arcapita has hosted a variety of workshops useful to our organization. These have included the CEO / COO Conference, the Strategic Leadership Skills Conference, The People Development Conference and several company-specific meetings focused on strategic planning. The information has been useful in our efforts to create a framework and infrastructure for performance evaluation, management resource reviews, strategic planning, communications, problem solving and succession planning.
Phil Egan
CEO, Tensar Corporation
When we acquired Tensar International, the Portfolio Management group provided and supported a process for integrating our companies. This process was extremely effective, as we were able to identify and deal with all of the big post-merger issues related to the acquisition. As a result, we are already enjoying the full range of benefits and synergies that we envisioned when we decided to pursue this acquisition.
Tore Nelson
CEO, Transportation Safety Technologies, Inc. (TST)
We have used Arcapita’s Portfolio Management Group and its broader network of consultants for strategy development and manager training. As an example, they led compelling sessions that provoked new thinking about how to effectively analyze and present our value proposition to our customers. An entire conference that was devoted to people development processes was very effective in giving our management team a framework for understanding their team’s behavior and how they can increase the team’s performance. These concepts were subsequently shared with the managers throughout our company and we have successfully incorporated these concepts into the management of our businesses.
Karen McBride
VP of Human Resources, Caribou Coffee Company
I had the opportunity to attend a People Development Conference hosted by Arcapita. I was impressed and energized by the people I met from both Arcapita and the portfolio companies. I was excited about the opportunity to apply what I had learned through our sessions on building high performance teams, situational leadership, performance management and succession planning.
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