$50MM specialty auto & homeowners insurance company - Our Backable CEO candidate has sourced this situation as a result of having done an evaluation of the target company for a large reinsurance firm. The target acquisition is a small insurer that has recently gone through difficult times due to mismanagement by a prior CEO. The company has significant upside potential with right management team. Our candidate has an inside track on how to build this operation to a $200MM enterprise with in a few years. In addition to MBA and JD degrees, our proposed CEO has more than a decade of consulting experience in the insurance industry and he has served as senior executive with two global insurance companies.

$35MM acquisition of specialty food company - Our Backable CEO candidate has worked for the owner of this regional food company as a consultant. He has extensive experience as a product manager for nationally known retail brands and has worked for very high profile retail clients at firms such as McKinsey & Company, Accenture, Ogilvy & Mather and JP Morgan Chase. The target acquisition has an extremely loyal and almost cult like following. The company has archived EBITDA margins near 50% with no advertising, no sales force and no pro-active selling. The objective is to transform the company from a small regional player into a publicly traded national brand.

$375MM high tech automotive electronics & embedded software acquisition - Backable CEO candidate is an international executive currently running an aerospace & automotive engineering business for a large multinational corporation. This BCEO has identified a platform acquisition and several roll up targets in the automotive/industrial vehicle engineering software industry. The targets are believed have growth potential in the $1B range. Our candidate has hands on operating experience with full p & l responsibility. He is an MBA and a former McKinsey & Company consultant.

$300MM Gas Exploration Partnership - This opportunity is jointly managed by an experienced team of Backable CEOs with a track record of success in the gas exploration business. They have 30 years of on the ground, grass-roots knowledge, experience & local networking in E&P of onshore Gulf Coast faults. They bring dedicated use of their own two deep-drill rigs along with the nimbleness to move them around quickly from prospect to prospect at an overall operating cost of less than half that of the majors. Their past track record of ~50% success rates on wildcat deals & ~75% on development deals coupled with their ~80% IRR on individual wet wells speaks for itself. The CEOs will contribute their rigs and $60 MM to the deal.

$50MM+ roll up of European Internet media and entertainment companies - Backable CEO has previously served as CFO of the initial platform company and has an inside track on its acquisition. The platform company and acquisition targets are mature companies with strong EBITDA. BCEO is an ex-McKinsey consultant with a PhD from a leading university and has lengthy experience in the online community and most recently served as a partner in a media oriented venture capital firm. As a result, he currently also serves on several corporate boards.

$200MM+ property & casualty insurance company - Backable CEO candidate has identified several targets in the $200MM range and evaluation of alternatives is underway. Candidate has played a leading role in senior management teams of major insurance companies culminating in several CEO appointments. These include serving as Chairman & CEO of a multibillion-dollar P&C company, President & CEO of one of the world's largest reinsurance companies, and President and Founder of a $2.3 billion property/casualty business. This last business was built from the ground up becoming a major, credible insurer of small to mid-size commercial and personal accounts through agents and brokers.

$80MM roll up of retail clothing designers/manufactures - Backable CEO candidate (London Business School MBA, McKinsey & Company) has been a success at creating brands and has profitably grown labels in the women's fashion. Has identified several brands for a roll-up of semi-luxury fashion labels operating mainly in the jeanswear, street fashion and general prêt-à-porter segments. Our candidate has already identified roll up targets (totaling $45MM to $60MM in sales) that could be combined with his current marketing, sales, and distribution company for women's clothing brands. Combining the companies would allow design and creative staff to focus on branding while rationalizing administration, purchasing and manufacturing. Marketing, sales & distribution would take place through candidate's platform company.

$200MM acquisition of streaming video company - Backable CEO candidate (Wharton and former Credit Suisse Internet banker) has led effort to grow the Internet search businesses at two well known Internet portals taking the companies from minimal search revenue to over $100MM+. Has developed and serves as CEO of a successful online video business and wishes to acquire the company that supplies his online content. This would reduce costs, increase margins and allow greater emphasis on building market share in this explosive growth sector of the Internet. Exit opportunity to sell to a major portal or take the company public. Several online video companies (e.g. YouTube) have sold for great premiums.

$700MM market potential for prostate cancer pharmaceuticals - Backable CEO candidate (Harvard PhD and McKinsey) has teamed up with worldwide pharmaceutical company to help develop a new drug for prostate cancer. A license for the application is available. Product is in Stage 2 Clinical testing where results are promising. Financial commitment for this pharmaceutical licensing deal is likely to be in the $10MM range with additional royalty payments to the pharmaceutical company as the product comes to market.

$500MM roll up of companies in retail credit collection - Backable CEO candidate (McKinsey, Wharton MBA and PhD) has successfully built and sold a 600-employee firm. For the past two years has served as a consultant to large financial institutions in the U.S. and abroad as they have investigated opportunities in the consumer debt collection industry. Our BCEO candidate has now identified two opportunities - one a portfolio of consumer debt from a large financial institution and the other a $300MM debt collection and call center company. The plan would be to consolidate these two businesses and grow both as improved yields from the consumer debt portfolios are proven. The roll up will be using proprietary technology and techniques developed by the $300MM debt collection company.

$50MM roll up of health care services companies - Backable CEO candidate has over twenty years of successful business creation/acquisition activity in the health care information industry. This BCEO has served as President & CEO both in companies that he has developed and for the acquirers of his companies. Our candidate has a contractual relationship with several multi-million-person membership organizations. His company conducts health care testing for the members and provides health care information to them sponsored by major pharmaceutical companies. This candidate is willing to use current company as a platform and has identified a health care information services company and an analytics company (for tracking clinical data) as potential acquisition targets.

$150MM acquisition of mid-sized property & casualty insurance company - Backable CEO candidate has two potential targets identified in the $150MM range. Our candidate has most recently served as President & CEO of a troubled p&c company turning it around from nearly going bankrupt to an all time high surplus of $85MM. BCEO has held senior management positions in several leading US p&c companies.

$20MM acquisition medical device manufacturer targeting $800MM market potential - Backable CEO candidate has 20 years of medical device CEO and turnaround experience. Has history of working with private equity in deals to develop and harvest medical device and pharmaceutical businesses. The target company has proven track record and has already licensed several applications to treat esophageal diseases.

$200MM marina and residential resort complex - Backable CEO candidate has long track record of successful commercial, hospitality and residential property development. This multi-use resort property project is adjacent to a well-established golf, tennis and water sport resort. There is potential for additional resort property acquisition associated with this deal. The project has all necessary permits and land use approvals for initial construction on residential lots. Some of the required financing is in place through capital commitment of the CEO.