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Warburg Pincus recently hosted an event for the UJA-Federation of New York, an organization focused on philanthropy in the New York Jewish community. Jeffrey Perlman, President of Warburg Pincus, was interviewed by Rachael Wagner, Chair of UJA’s NextGen Private Equity Division, discussing his career, outlook on the current markets, and the power of philanthropy with nearly 100 guests in attendance.

We just wrapped up our 2nd session of the Warburg Pincus HiPo: Technology Leaders program, working with 45 technology leaders across our portfolio. The purpose of the HiPo (high potential) program is to create optimal succession plans, to provide development opportunities for technology leaders, and to improve retention and attraction of high potential talent. The program featured an AI Innovation Challenge, prompting attendees to develop a GenAI use case at their companies and proposed action plan.

We’re excited to announce that we have reached the final closing on a life sciences real estate joint venture platform with Lendlease, an integrated Australian real estate group with international investment capabilities. Headquartered in Singapore, the new platform will focus on investing, acquiring, developing, constructing, managing, and operating real estate projects in the fast-growing life sciences and R&D real estate markets in Asia Pacific. Leveraging the unparalleled sector expertise and deep market experience of both Warburg Pincus and Lendlease, the joint venture aims to become a leading life sciences and R&D real estate platform in Asia Pacific.

We are proud to announce that Andrew Sibbald will become sole head of Warburg Pincus in Europe and René Obermann will become Chairman.

Andrew and René will continue to work closely together, with Andrew leading day-to-day business and René advising on portfolio companies and new investments.

Congrats to ClimeCo on their participation in The White House Super Pollutants Summit. ClimeCo is a global sustainability company founded with the mission to advance the low-carbon future and restore nature with market-based solutions.

True’s Matthew Goldstein sat down with Warburg Pincus LLC’s SVP of Portfolio Talent Debra Somers to discuss how to best support new financial leaders in their roles, and the success of their training program that identifies and develops PE-CFO-caliber talent inside their portfolio companies’ finance departments.

We are excited to share our investment in Matera, a leading banking software provider that processes over 5 billion transactions a year. The investment will be used to fund the company’s expansion into the North American market and further expand product development. The company is a leading provider of next-generation software enabling real-time payments in Brazil, a country which is a global standard when it comes to payments infrastructure, led by a long-standing innovative central bank agenda.

We are proud to announce that Jeffrey Perlman will become CEO of Warburg Pincus in September. Jeff, who was named President of the firm last year, succeeds Chip Kaye, who will become Chairman alongside Timothy Geithner, the 75th Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Treasury. This appointment represents only the third generation of leadership for the firm in its nearly 60-year history.

We are excited to announce our investment in Varicent, an industry leader in sales performance management (SPM) software, alongside Great Hill Partners and Spectrum Equity. The investment will allow Varicent to advance its proprietary Revenue Performance Engine framework, accelerate delivery of AI-driven capabilities, and reinforce its position in key markets globally.

Last week, Warburg Pincus’ Managing Director and Head of Brazil Henrique M. and Former Head of Brazil Piero Minardi were on the ground in São Paulo for the annual ABVCAP Conference.

We are proud to share the sale of Duetto, a leading provider of revenue management software for the hospitality industry, to GrowthCurve Capital. Duetto provides revenue management software that enables hotels to forecast and optimize demand and set prices. Over the course of our ownership, Duetto made significant investments in product to serve customers from small independents to enterprise accounts, and laid the groundwork for a scalable GTM strategy.

We are proud of our next generation of leaders at Warburg Pincus, providing a consistent and strong direction for the firm and allowing us to capitalize on interesting opportunities in today’s market. As a testament to this deep bench of talent, we are excited to announce that Chandler Reedy and Justin Sadrian have been named Co-Heads of the U.S. Technology Group and Mark Colodny has been named Chairman of Global Technology, while also remaining as Co-Head of U.S. Private Equity with Jim Neary.

On May 31, Warburg Pincus hosted BlackGen Capital’s third national conference at our New York office. As the lead sponsor for this year’s conference, we were pleased to welcome over 140 students representing ten university chapters. Students had the opportunity to hear from Martin Laguerre, Steven Glenn, Matthew Porter, Kunal Mehta, and Elijah P. through interactive sessions, deal walkthroughs, and panel discussions. A special thank you to the Warburg Pincus participants and everyone at BlackGen Capital who made this event possible.

We are excited to announce that Warburg Pincus will partner with The Wharton School to provide program scholarship opportunities for students from underrepresented backgrounds with strong academic skills and a demonstrated interest in finance.

Congrats to IntraFi on the launch of the ACT Deposit Program by the Community Development Bankers Association and National Bankers Association. We are proud to support the initiative and look forward to following the program’s impact and progress.

At this year’s SuperReturn International Conference, Leela Ramnath, Senior Vice President, Global Head of Sustainability Strategy at Warburg Pincus, participated in a panel focused on how sustainable value creation is propelling private markets.

We are excited to announce that we have added two Managing Directors to our European Business. Tobias Weidner brings experienced leadership in Industrials to add to the Industrials and Business Services team, led by David R., and Jacob Strauss will lead a new European Healthcare team as part of our industry leading global healthcare group, led by Thomas Carella.

Qiqi Zhang, Managing Director at Warburg Pincus, and Craig T., Vice President and Head of Capital Raising at VLINKER, recently participated in a spotlight interview at Mingtiandi – Asia real estate intelligence’s Hong Kong Forum.

As part of our partnership with Synergist Network, a non-profit national network of women in investing, we hosted a fireside chat and networking event, for all Synergist members, with journalist Josie Cox, author of the book Women, Money, Power: The Rise and Fall of Economic Equality.

We are excited to announce our investment in Specialist Risk Group (SRG), a fast-growing, people and culture focused, specialist insurance intermediary based in the UK. We are looking forward to partnering with Group CEO Warren Downey and the team and our co-investor Temasek to support the next, exciting phase of growth.