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Genesis Solutions (Genesis), was created in 1999 to serve customers in need of state-of-the-art industrial asset management practices and systems. In February 2008 Seguin and its capital partners completed a recapitalization of the company backing the existing management team. As a rapidly growing company Genesis provides mission critical expertise in the areas of asset management strategy, processes, reliability centered maintenance and EAM systems implementation. Genesis has longstanding relationships with world class companies in the pharmaceutical, energy, utility, wastewater treatment, pulp and paper and other industries.
   
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Guardian Security Holdings, Inc. d/b/a Ackerman Security Systems (Ackerman), based in Atlanta, Georgia, is a leading security alarm monitoring service provider in the Greater Atlanta market.  Since its founding in 1992, the Company has grown from 674 accounts to over 30,000. The Company’s commitment to service and quality has enabled Ackerman to develop one of the strongest security alarm brands in the greater Atlanta market and to successfully compete with both local and national competitors.
     
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HCPro Holdings, Inc. (HCPro), based in Marblehead, Massachusetts, is an industry leader in healthcare publishing and consulting.  The Company has become the most extensive provider of need-to-know information on regulatory compliance in the healthcare industry. 

HCPro was sold to Halyard Capital in February 2008 achieving excellent returns for all stakeholders.
     
 
Commonwealth Business Media, Inc. (CBM) is the leading provider of dedicated information products and services, including customized and proprietary data, magazines, directories, references, newsletters, and online services, to the international trade and transportation industry of North America. CBM, based in East Windsor, New Jersey, was formed by its investors in October 2000 to acquire, from PRIMEDIA, Inc., the assets of the PRIMEDIA Directories Group.

In July of 2006, Commonwealth was sold to United Business Media, plc, a publicly traded strategic acquirer based in the United Kingdom. United Business Media retained all of CBM’s executive management team. The purchase price was $152 million generating a substantial cash on cash return and very attractive internal rate of return for CBM’s equity investors.
     
 
Coastal Security Systems, Inc. (Coastal), based in Boca Raton, Florida, is a leading provider of security alarm monitoring and related installation services in south Florida and third party monitoring services nationally. Coastal monitors over 145,000 accounts throughout the United States and its monitoring central station is one of the largest in Florida.  The Company has achieved consistent and steady growth through high quality service and effective marketing.  It has been under the same management for over twenty years.

In November 2005, Coastal was sold to a strategic buyer for $50.4 million, resulting in a significant cash return and IRR for its investors.
     
 
Health Watch Holdings, Inc., (Health Watch), based in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, is the second largest provider of personal response systems (“PRS”) and monitoring services in the United States.  The PRS industry serves the needs of medically at-risk elders and disabled individuals who wish to remain in their own homes.  Health Watch’s technologically-advanced PRS enables individual subscribers to transmit a distress or other healthcare-related signal to its central monitoring station in Boca Raton, Florida, which then communicates with the subscriber and notifies emergency response agencies and/or family members when required. 

In May 2007, Healthwatch was sold to Lifeline a subsidiary of Philips for $130 million, resulting in a significant cash return and IRR for its investors.