Grant Manon

Meritage Group LP (Meritage) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in San Francisco, California. The firm was principally owned by the 1998 Simons Family Revocable Trust. They were formed in 2006 as a spin-off of Renaissance Technologies LLC. Meritage provides discretionary investment management services to private investment funds for which they serve as investment manager and/or investment general partner and not individually to the investors in the private investment funds.

Berkshire Partners LLC (Berkshire Partners) is a private equity subsidiary of Berkshire Partners Holdings LLC founded in 1986 by Christopher Clifford, Carl Ferenbach, Russel L. Epker, Brad Bloom and Richard Lubin. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.