Ephor Group – For Institutional Investors: Private Equity and Venture Capital Portfolio Management Augmentation.

• Do you have a portfolio investment which has been in the portfolio for 2-3 years and is not achieving the investment thesis?
• Ask yourself: in this different economy what can we do now?
• Have you made a recent portfolio investment and so far it has not tracked to meet its initial goals?
• Does a portfolio company have a dysfunctional board with conflicting agendas?
• Not sure if management is effective or not?
• Do you have a portfolio company that needs to prepare for and/or create exit opportunities?

Ephor Group creates EBITDA improvement for technology and service based businesses generating maximum portfolio returns.

Ephor Group's extensive background as an institutional investor, operating executive, and BOD chairman will provide that market perspective consistency balance necessary to maximize returns. Our process starts with a pragmatic assessment of your business which includes a roadmap for improvement.

Ephor Group enables private equity and venture capital to:

• Improve strategic and operating performance of individual portfolio companies
• Make the smaller investment at lower EBITDA multiples where risk and improvement areas are identified during due diligence
• Create effective and balanced Board of Directors and corporate governance
• Spend less of your precious time and resources on portfolio management activities
• Have access to domain expertise during due diligence and the portfolio management process

We specialize in organizations with the following attributes in their business model:

• Labor intensive
• Low asset based
• Excessive customer acquisition costs
• Complex distribution
• End-user customer satisfaction is critical
• Management and measurement processes are critical to success
• Multi-functional dependency
• Changing exogenous environment

We specialize in organizations in the following sector focus areas:

• Business process outsourcing including FAO, HRO, IT and HRO and HRIT outsourcing
• Human capital management
• Workforce management, staffing, and technology
• Medical business services (health care busienss services)
• CRM, Marketing services and customer acquisition services
• Software, SaaS, and technology services

Ephor Group News & Updates

February 2010 – Ephor' client Serenity Systems Acquires Certain Assets of Kommar Solutions.

Learn more at: serenitysystems.com

February 2010 – American Small Business Vulnerability to Slow Economic Recovery

In the article Garry E. Meier outlines the five (5) areas that will be weighing down the economy in the near-term. Learn more on Ephor Group's eNewsletter.

February 2010 – Capital & Financing Options in 2010

Businesses that that have changed and are profitable (and are backed by a strong management team with lean operations and have both a unique business model and defined business plan) have multiple financing options available to them as the following report details. Download the report here.

January 2010 – Top Barriers to Wealth Creation

Over the past decade Ephor Group has worked with literally hundreds of small businesses to overcome barriers to wealth creation. This document identifies the most common barriers and provides guidance and processes to create a roadmap for near and long-term success. Download "Top Barriers to Wealth Creation."