Values
Supporting our mission, and at the heart of our business approach, is a core set of personal and organizational values that provide the foundation for how we operate. These values are the immutable principals by which we run our company and an integral part of how we do business.

• Inescapable Commitment: As individuals and as a firm, we are inescapably committed to our mission and values. We will hold ourselves and each other accountable for acting in alignment with our core purpose and beliefs.
• Uncompromising Integrity: We will honor commitments, both large and small, tell the truth even when it is painful to do so, and avoid the temptation to operate where it is ethically gray.
• True Collaboration: We believe our greatest strength comes from collective capability, not individual brilliance. Therfore, we approach relationships from a supportive rather than a competitive perspective.
• Effective Communication: We know that effective communication is essential, but extraordinarily difficult to achieve. By better understanding our own patterns of behavior and those of each other, we will minimize the effect of the filters through which we speak, listen and learn.
• Sense of Responsibility: We will act in a way that is consistent with the tremendous sense of responsibility that we have:

  -To our employees, for building a work environment in which they are respected, encouraged, challenged and supported to be the best they can be.

  -To our portfolio companies, for helping and supporting them, so that they become successful enterprises in both human and financial terms.

  -To our investors, for being effective stewards of the money they entrust to us.