Founded in 1999, Silver Lake is a global private investment firm with approximately $14 billion in assets under management. With offices in Menlo Park, New York, London, San Francisco, Hong Kong and Tokyo, Silver Lake employs over 90 investment professionals across its strategies. The firm's investing strategies derive from specialization in three primary areas:

Silver Lake Partners – Large Cap Technology
Silver Lake Partners is the leader in private investments in technology and technology-enabled industries. Its funds' portfolio companies include or have included technology industry leaders such as Ameritrade, Avago, Avaya, Business Objects, Flextronics, Gartner, Gerson Lehrman Group, Instinet, Intelsat, IPC Systems, MCI, NASDAQ OMX, NetScout, NXP, Sabre Holdings, Seagate Technology, Serena Software, SunGard Data Systems, Thomson and UGS.

Silver Lake Sumeru – Middle Market Technology
Silver Lake Sumeru invests in middle market technology companies with established business models and attractive growth prospects where there is an opportunity to create value through operational transformation. Silver Lake Sumeru combines specialized technology sector knowledge, rigorous due diligence processes and a network of industry relationships to create a significant competitive advantage in executing its investment strategy.

Silver Lake Financial – Credit
As a debt investing business, Silver Lake Financial’s core investment thesis is that fundamental, bottom-up credit selection performed over the long-term will lead to outperformance. Silver Lake Financial's investing strategy emphasizes undervalued, stressed and distressed debt opportunities derived primarily from the secondary market and the proprietary Silver Lake network. The credit team subscribes to the Silver Lake ethos of deep diligence and specialization.