Veronis Suhler Stevenson

www.vss.com
Veronis Suhler Stevenson (VSS) is a private equity and mezzanine capital investment firm dedicated to serving the media, communications and information industries in North America and Europe.

VSS was founded in 1981 by John J. Veronis and John S. Suhler with the premise that the investment process is better informed with the combination of seasoned industry professionals with hands-on operating and transactional experience together with Media-focused investment banking and investment professionals. Jeffrey T. Stevenson, who joined the Firm in 1982 and subsequently managed the Firm’s first private equity fund, became a name partner of the Firm in December 2001. In March 2003, S. Gerard Benford, Marco Sodi and Scott J. Troeller were named Partners. VSS has grown to more than 30 professionals and support staff with offices in New York and London.

Since, 1987, VSS has managed four private equity funds and a mezzanine debt fund exclusively dedicated to investments in the broadly defined media, communications, education, information and business services industries. Over the past 19 years, VSS has managed fund with commitments exceeding $2.8 billion and has invested in 45 platform companies, which have completed over 210 add-on acquisitions.

Reflecting its commitment to the industries it serves, Veronis Suhler Stevenson has become a prominent source of authoritative media and communications data. Every year since 1987 it has published the highly-acclaimed Communications Industry Forecast, which relates five-year historical and five-year forward forecasting with the key market forces driving industry growth.