DentalCare Partners
www.dcpartners.com

Based in Cleveland, OH, DentalCare Partners provides comprehensive management services to 70 dental practices in the midwestern and southeastern United States that offer general dentistry and orthodontic services under the Sears Dental and DentalWorks brand names. Among the services provided by DentalCare Partners are administrative functions, including accounting, human resources, marketing and finance; recruitment of professional, administrative and support personnel in the practices; and equipment and facility leasing. In 2006, the company generated annual revenue of more than $100 million.

Dental One, Inc.
www.dental-one.com

Based in Dallas, TX, Dental One is a dental practice management company providing a wide range of business services to its 60 affiliated dental practices in Arizona, Colorado, Texas and Utah. Among the services provided by Dental One are administrative functions, including accounting, human resources, marketing and finance; recruitment of professional, administrative and support personnel in the practices; and equipment and facility leasing. In 2007, the company generated annual revenue of more than $50 million.

The following companies represent the transaction experience of North Peak investment professionals prior to their joining the firm.

Magellan Health Services (NASDAQ: MGLN)
www.magellanhealth.com

Headquartered in Farmington, CT, Magellan is the country's leading behavioral health disease management organization. The company co-ordinates and manages the delivery of behavioral healthcare treatment services. The company provides its services through a contracted network of third-party treatment providers, including psychiatrists, psychologists, other behavioral health professionals, psychiatric hospitals, residential treatment centers, and other treatment facilities. It provides its services to health plans, insurance companies, corporations, labor unions, and various governmental agencies. The company has approximately 60 million covered lives under managed behavioral healthcare contracts or programs.

Res-Care (NASDAQ: RSCR)
www.rescare.com

Based in Louisville, KY, Res-Care provides residential, therapeutic, job training, and educational support services to people with special needs. The company provides: (i) periodic in-home services, group homes, supported living, residential facilities, and vocational skills training and day programs to mentally retarded/developmentally disabled individuals, (ii) educational, behavioral, and vocational training, including individual, group, and family counseling and training in social and independent living skills to at-risk and troubled youths, and (iii) programs for disadvantaged youths through the federal Job Corps program administered by the United States Department of Labor, which provides educational and vocational skills training, health care, employment counseling, and other support. Res-Care offers its services to over 30,000 individuals.

Center for Diagnostic Imaging
www.cdirad.com

Established in 1981 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, CDI provides high-quality, cost-effective diagnostic and therapeutic radiology services and patient-centered care through a network of 30 freestanding outpatient imaging centers in seven states throughout the United States.   The company's centers provide a full range of high quality diagnostic imaging services including magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), computed tomography (CT), nuclear medicine, diagnostic and therapeutic injection procedures (DTI), positron emission tomography (PET), ultrasound, nuclear medicine, mammography, fluoroscopy and conventional radiography.  

American Medical Response
www.amr.net

Based in Denver, CO, AMR is the leading provider of ambulance transport services in the US for emergency response, or 911 services, as well as for scheduled pick-ups, such as for those patients who need to be moved between healthcare facilities. The company possesses the broadest geographic footprint and the largest network of ambulance services in the US, operating in 34 states with approximately 18,000 employees, 70% of whom are paramedics and emergency medical technicians. The company also provides wheelchair transports and training and dispatch services, as well as medical stand-by support for concerts, athletic events, parades and conventions.

Emcare
www.emcare.com

Based in Dallas, TX, EmCare is the leading provider of outsourced physician staffing services to hospital emergency departments ("EDs") in the US. The company recruits physicians and provides management and administrative services to hospital EDs and physician groups.  EmCare also provides outsourced staffing of hospitalists to its clients, which involves the staffing of physicians who specialize in the care of acutely ill patients in an inpatient setting as opposed to the ED.

Laureate Education
www.laureate-inc.com

Headquartered in Baltimore, MD, Laureate operates the leading international network of accredited campus-based and online universities and higher education institutions.  Laureate’s university network of 24 accredited institutions serves 240,000 students in 15 countries in Asia, Europe, and the Americas.  Through this network, Laureate offers a broad range of career-oriented undergraduate and graduate degree programs in fast growing markets where there is significant demand for post-secondary education.  Together, these independently branded universities offer a broad range of programs, including business, law, education, communications, social sciences, health sciences, engineering, information technology, hospitality management, humanities and architecture.

Educate Services
www.SylvanLearning.com
www.CatapultLearning.com

Educate Services includes several leading education brands such as Sylvan Learning Centers and Catapult Learning.  Sylvan is the leading K-12 tutoring company in the United States.  The company develops and delivers diagnostic, prescriptive tutoring programs primarily through a network of 1,140 franchised and company-owned learning centers operating under the Sylvan Learning Centers brand name.  The Catapult Learning segment provides tutoring, as well as other supplemental education services and special needs services, to eligible students in public and private schools through government-funded contracts.

Smarterville
www.hooked-on-phonics.com

Smarterville operates Hooked on Phonics, a leading creator of educational products for families that are fun, easy to use and get results. The company works with educators, interactive designers, writers, artists and parents to develop step-by-step learning systems that help teach children critical reading, math, and study skills. Since the company was founded in 1987, more than two million families and thousands of schools have turned to Hooked on Phonics’ library of award-winning programs.