John Arney, our Vice Chairman and President, provides expertise in sourcing potential business combinations and leadership in managing the due diligence analysis of operational and management performance of these businesses. Mr. Arney has over 30 years of experience sourcing, evaluating, acquiring, owning, operating and financing businesses in the industrial, automotive, energy, business services and digital sectors. Over his career Mr Arney has led complex carve-outs, buyouts and acquisitions of companies headquartered in North America and Europe with global operations. Mr. Arney served as a Managing Director at Candover, before leading a management buy-out of the business to form Arle Capital Partners in 2011, which managed three mid-market private equity funds through to realisation before Arle was sold in 2017. Mr. Arney founded industrial holding company The Smithfield Group in 2014. Mr. Arney was a board director of Parques Reunidos and has served on a variety of industrial company boards including Pure Power Technologies, Innovia, Thule Group, Vetco International and Aibel, and is a founder and board member of both Guardian, which he chairs, and Pure Lifting Group.