Dan Botterill, CEO & Founder We are thrilled to receive the Best ESG Solution Provider award. This award is a testament to Rio’s commitment to offering real, attainable, affordable ESG solutions that drive sustainable improvement across the financial services sector and beyond. We are here to rethink the ESG sector in order to provide individuals and businesses with the knowledge to do better. We work alongside government and worldwide industry bodies to provide informed, impactful technology-based sustainability solutions via the democratisation of integral knowledge. Globally, businesses are being foisted by ineffective and expensive environmental, social, and governance goals and we

Hannah Gunvor Jacobsen, Investment Director & Head of Investor Relations It is overwhelming to be recognised as a leading fund manager for a strategy that was attracting more scepticism than support only five years ago. With the pandemic, the recent report on climate change, and now with the devastating Russian invasion of Ukraine, we are faced with multiple crises. Increasingly, business and the investment community need to be an integral part of solving these, and we also have to be aware of the risk these represent to our businesses. Summa formed the investment thesis around being part of the solution

Matthew Crisp, CEO We are delighted to have been successful in winning the award for Best Tax Advisory firm. We are particularly proud as these awards are voted for by our clients, prospects and industry partners. As a wholly independent outsourced resource, we have been able to make significant investment in our team first and foremost. We believe we employ the market’s most accomplished team in the tax and prudential space. We have also invested in our own technology and processes; accelerating our own data strategy delivering benefits to our clients as taxation and reporting becomes increasingly more complex. We

Giles Travers, Executive Director Lionpoint is honored be named Best Technology Advisory Firm in Europe after earning the same distinction for PEW’s award in the US. Our global reach and specialisation in private markets has our firm uniquely positioned to best serve our clients, which has resulted in tremendous growth for Lionpoint, in terms of both reach and capabilities. We would like to thank our clients, technology partners and incredible employees for enabling us to get to this point. Lionpoint will continue to be the most trusted adviser in connecting private equity firms with the best technology solutions for their

Thomas Cooper, Partner We are very pleased that we have been awarded “Best Fund of Funds Manager” (fund size above USD500 million) for Crown Global Opportunities VI, our commingled offering focused on capturing the best opportunities in global buyouts. We thank our clients and the industry representatives for the recognition of our efforts to consistently find and develop attractive investment opportunities in a global private equity universe. This award is a recognition of our philosophy of combining a global perspective with thorough implementation through local teams. Contact: www.lgtcp.com/

Sasha Jensen, CEO & Founder Winning this award for the third consecutive year shows that our marketing and distribution recruitment offerings are truly differentiated. Our data-driven approach and proprietary technology allow us to recruit diverse candidates and provide solutions for a wide range of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), company culture and employee retention challenges. We’re proud to offer the deep insights that give our clients the ability to design, implement, maintain and measure DEI initiatives, and through our quarterly newsletters and reports, will continue to provide everyone across the alternative asset management industry the depth of knowledge and solutions

Michael Zornitta, Investec Fund Solutions Investec and the Fund Solutions team are honoured to have been recognised as the fund financing provider of the year. After two years of working virtually, it is humbling to be nominated by our clients, to whom we strive to provide an out-of-the ordinary service. The fund finance market is evolving fast with the continued advancement of the subscription facility, the rise of NAV financing and the adaption of GP financing. Our aim is to continue to be a trusted partner for funds and GP’s alike, through all stages of the fund lifecycle. We are

Aidan O’Flanagan, Head of Funds To be nominated by esteemed GPs for this category was an achievement alone, but receiving this award is very special to me and the team at Highvern. To say I am overwhelmed with gratitude is an understatement. A massive thank you to all the funds team and everyone involved at Highvern who take so much pride in their work for clients and for making work a fun place to be, and to all our clients and intermediaries for the positive support and references they keep providing us. A sincere thank you also to Private Equity

Guy Oakley, UK Marketing We at Field Effect are very proud to accept the Private Equity Wire Best Cyber Security Provider award. It’s a great honour for us to be recognised by people in the industry. We work tirelessly to provide the best possible solutions to support the small and medium business community, which we believe is a very under-served market. Cyber security has changed rapidly over the last few years and as threat actors start to target business of all sizes, we want to make sure it is not just those organisations with deep pockets which can have the

Douglas A Trafelet, Director of Business Development Congratulations to the other nominees: Maestro, Accelex and Lemon Edge. Thank you Private Equity Wire and the voters for recognising Equipped AI as the winner in the category: Most Innovative Technology. Equipped has been developing its data management and software capabilities for nearly five years as an in-house team within AnaCap Financial Partners and it is a great honor to accept this award after less than a year as an independent company. We believe that digital transformation will be a core operational focus for alternative investors in the coming years and that Equipped