Our Value Creation team
How we create value across our portfolio.
As a highly focused software and service investor, many of our portfolio companies face similar challenges and opportunities as they grow and scale. Hg’s Value Creation team consists of about 50 full-time operational experts that have deep knowledge across key functions of relevance to Hg’s businesses, including a range of functional areas – Data and AI, Growth, Technology, Cybersecurity, HR & Talent, Finance, Legal, Business Systems, ESG and Value Creation Planning. For each of these focus areas, the team leverages its depth of knowledge of best practice to help drive value creation in close collaboration with management.
The Value Creation team provides a range of support, from diagnostics to identifying new opportunities, project planning & scoping, project execution, ongoing support & advice, and exit preparation. To deliver this, our experts go deep into companies for extended periods, and are enabled by best-practice IP and tools, as well as third-party partners and proprietary datasets and benchmarks.
External Partnerships
Hg is proud of its involvement in major global initiatives that drive increased commitments across ESG. Working in tandem with other private market players, we are able to improve transparency, share knowledge, and measure progress, which all help to advance our collective ESG goals. Through our partnerships and initiatives, we are actively working to promote and accelerate positive ESG performance in private equity. The following are examples of some of the partnerships and initiatives we are involved in:
Hg has been a signatory to PRI, a UN-supported network of investors, working to promote sustainable investment through the incorporation of environmental, social and governance topics, since 2012. Hg is fully supportive of their six principles and reports progress against these on an annual basis.
Hg is one of the founding members of the UK branch of the iCI network, which is endorsed by the UNPRI. The network comprises over 100 Private Equity firms working together to develop tools, methodologies and standards to enable climate change action in private markets.
Hg uses the SASB Standard for Software and IT Services, which identifies a subset of ESG issues that are most likely to impact the financial performance of a software business, to guide our portfolio ESG reviews.
Hg contributes to Invest Europe’s ESG Working Group which is encouraging the open exchange of ideas and promotes informed discussion about responsible investment practices and ESG issues in European private equity. It supports Invest Europe’s members in offering practical and tailored guidance on integrating ESG considerations into their business decisions.
Hg has partnered with Out Investors, a global network for LGBT+ Investment Professionals. Their mission is to make the direct investing industry more welcoming for LGBT+ individuals, through events and programs.
Hg is a member of the BVCA’s Responsible Investment Advisory Group which meets on a quarterly basis to assist the BVCA in being able to provide practical advice to its members to help them incorporate responsible investment considerations into their business decisions.
Hg is a member of SEO London, a UK-registered charity delivering superior educational, training, and mentoring support to young people from low socioeconomic and ethnic minority backgrounds.
Hg is a member of Level 20, a not-for-profit organisation founded with the aim of improving gender diversity in the private equity industry.
Hg commits to bloss.m’s bInspired mentorship programme, where Hg employees are paired with young women (aged 17-21) in a mentoring capacity, to increase their access to role models and development pathways.
