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Riverwood Capital

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Riverwood Capital is a growth-stage technology investment firm that provides financial and intellectual capital to technology companies.

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01.01.2007

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Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California, Riverwood Capital specializes in investing in high-growth companies in the technology and technology-enabled industries. With a focus on sectors like information technology, telecom infrastructure, hardware, semiconductors, consumer electronics, and more, the firm offers operational, strategic, technology, and financial expertise to portfolio companies. Riverwood seeks to invest in established businesses with proven technology and business models, providing growth capital and global scaling expertise. Operating globally, Riverwood has offices in Menlo Park, CA; New York, NY; Miami, FL; and São Paulo, Brazil. To learn more, visit riverwoodcapital.com.
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Chris Varelas
Chris Varelas

Chris Varelas

Mr. Christopher Varelas is a Co-Founder and serves as a Partner at Riverwood Capital. He serves as a Board Member at Curemark. He serves as a Senior Advisor at Citation Capital. He also serves as an Advisory Board Member at Streamlined Ventures. He also is an Angel Investor. He serves as an Advisor at Global Ventures. He served as a Board Member at MotionPoint and UGSI Solutions. He served as a Board Member at Accellion and Mandic. Prior to establishing Riverwood, he was the Global Head of Technology, Media, and Telecom Investment Banking at Citigroup Global Markets. He was also Head of Citi's National Investment Bank and as such was responsible for the oversight of Citi's middle-market banking practice. His leadership propelled Citi's market share in both technology M&A and capital raising from immaterial in the late 1990s to the top 3 globally in recent years. His 18-year tenure at Citigroup and legacy firm Salomon Brothers has given him a vast network in the Technology Industry which will greatly assist Riverwood in sourcing attractive global proprietary investment opportunities. In addition, as one of the top-rated TMT bankers responsible for many of the largest transactions in the sector, he is skilled in sourcing, analyzing, and structuring unique and complex technology deals, as evidenced by his leadership on landmark transactions such as Compaq/HP, Lucent Fiber, PeopleSoft/Oracle, IBM/PWC, Nokia/Navteq, and Flextronics/Solectron. He earned an MBA from the Wharton School of Business and a BA from Occidental College in Los Angeles, California for which he serves on the Board of Trustees. He serves as a Board Member at Occidental College. He serves as an Advisor at Global Ventures. He also serves as an Advisor at Elemental Cognition. [Source: Public Company Filing]

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Riverwood Capital

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Chris Varelas

Francisco Alvarez-Demalde
Francisco Alvarez-Demalde

Francisco Alvarez-Demalde

Francisco Alvarez-Demalde has been a member of the board since 2007. He is a founder and general partner of Riverwood Capital, a leading growth-capital private equity firm focused on the global technology industry, and one of the largest early investors in Globant. From 2005 to 2007, he was an investment executive at Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., where he focused on leveraged buyouts in the technology industry and other sectors. Francisco was also an investment professional at Eton Park Capital Management and with Goldman Sachs & Co. Francisco earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from Universidad de San Andrés, Argentina, which included an exchange program at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He is director of Globant (NYSE: GLOB), GoIntegro , LAVCA, Navent, Netshoes, and VTEX, and a board advisor and former director of several other companies, including Alog Data Centers do Brasil, Conductor, CloudBlue, Mandic, Pixeon, among others. He is also involved in non-profit projects related to education. We believe that Francisco is qualified to serve on our board of directors due to his considerable business experience in the technology industry and his experience serving as a director of other companies.

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Riverwood Capital

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Francisco Alvarez-Demalde

Jeff Parks
Jeff Parks

Jeff Parks

Jeff Parks is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Riverwood Capital. Jeff co-heads the Firm and has been involved since inception in the development of the Riverwood Capital franchise and the scalability journey of several of Riverwood’s portfolio companies. Prior to establishing Riverwood Capital, Jeff was an investment executive at Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR), where he focused on large scale leveraged buyout investments in the technology sector, and an investment professional in the Principal Opportunities Fund at Oaktree Capital Management, where he specialized in private equity investment in distressed companies. Earlier in his career, Jeff was an investment banker at UBS Investment Bank in Los Angeles. Jeff has extensive experience investing in global technology companies. During his career, Jeff has led investments in a vast array of companies and worked closely with several successful entrepreneurs in scaling globally, bringing both capital and expertise to those initiatives. He earned a Dual BA in Economics and Mathematics from Pomona College (Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa) in Claremont, California. Jeff is a Director of Degreed, Druva, Files.com, ForgeRock (NYSE: FORG), HG Insights, Sauce Labs, Sensor Tower, UGSI, and Vacasa (NASD: VCSA) (Chairman), and a Board Advisor, and/or former Director of several other companies including Accellion, Forecast5 (Chairman), LogRhythm, Nutanix (NASD: NTNX), SintecMedia (Chairman), Spredfast, Ticketfly, and Virtual Instruments. He also serves on the Board of Trustees of Pomona College.

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2

count Of Exists

1

Jeff Parks

Nicholas Brathwaite
Nicholas Brathwaite

Nicholas Brathwaite

Mr. Nicholas Brathwaite is a Founding Managing Partner of Celesta Capital. He serves as Advisor, SparkLabs Connex at SparkLabs Group. He serves as Chairman and Executive at Supply Chain Resources Group. He serves as Executive Chairman and Board of Directors at Atonarp. He serves as a Board Member and Advisor at Clairvolex, Magnetic Insights, ideaForge, Exotanium, and SparkLabs Connex. He serves as an Independent Director at Power Integrations. He served as a Board Member at Recogni, where he previously served as Chief Executive Officer. He serves as Board of Trustee, Chairman of the Finance Committee & Member of the Executive and Human Resources, Nominating & Corporate Governance Committees at Northwestern Mutual. He serves as Chairman of Aveo. He served as Chief Technology Officer at Katerra. He served as a Board Member at Mandic and Reviver. He also serves as a Board Member of Cloudleaf, Tessera Technologies (Micro-Optics Assets), Adapdix, and Photon Dynamics. He also served as a Board Member at Calysta. He has served on Inphi Board since September 2013 and is Chairman of the nominating and corporate governance committee. He was a Co-Founding Partner of Riverwood Capital. He served as Chief Executive Officer of Aptina Imaging Corporation from April 2008 to July 2009 and was Chairman of the board from 2009, until it was sold to ON Semiconductor in 2014. Before Aptina, he joined Flextronics International Ltd. in 1995 as its Vice President of Technology, and from 2000 to 2007, he served as Chief Technology Officer. Flextronics acquired nChip, where he held the position of Vice President and General Manager of operations from 1992 to 1996. He also spent six years with Intel Corporation in various engineering management positions in technology development and manufacturing. He received a B.S. degree in Applied Chemistry from McMaster University and an M.S. degree in Polymer Science & Engineering from the University of Waterloo. He has also completed the Wharton Executive Education Training Program on Corporate Governance. He served as a Board Member at BrightSource Energy. He served as Chairman and Executive at Supply Chain Resources Group. He served as Board Member at Brilliant. [Source: Public Company Filing]

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Caitlin Mitchell

Caitlin Mitchell

Director, Marketing & Communications

Ana Gilligan

Advisor, riverwood capital

Ramesh Venugopal

Ramesh Venugopal

Technology Investor

Vizay Kotikalapudi

Vizay Kotikalapudi

Vice President

Joe De Pinho

Joe De Pinho

Principal

Alexandre Porto

Alexandre Porto

Principal

Michael Yang

Director - strategic partnerships

Francisco Alvarez-Demalde

Francisco Alvarez-Demalde

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

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