
About Steve Berman
Steve Berman is a Partner and Chief Financial Officer of Argentum. Steve joined Argentum in December 1997 and is responsible for all aspects of financial, tax and regulatory reporting for the Argentum entities, investor relations and also provides deal and portfolio company support, including deal sourcing, due diligence, financial modeling and post-investment monitoring. On occasion, Steve will serve as an interim CFO or Controller for Argentum’s portfolio companies. He has also participated as a panelist at private equity and SBIC related conferences.
Prior to joining Argentum, Steve was Assistant Controller and Tax Manager at Caxton Corporation, a large privately owned hedge fund manager and investment company. Steve was also a Tax Supervisor at Laventhol & Horwath, an international accounting firm, where he began his career in 1985.
Steve holds a B.S. in Accounting from Temple University and a Master’s Degree in Taxation from Villanova University.
Portfolio Company Investments


Conner Industries
Conner Industries is a leading providers of industrial wood products and services to the materials handling industry. The company specializes in supplying cut lumber (softwoods, hardwoods, and panel woods), needed for pallets, shelving, and crate & skid parts, or fully assembled wooden pallets & skids, crates, and industrial containers. Conner services its customers nationwide from its own remanufacturing plants located in eight states: FL, GA, MI, OK, SC, TN, TX, and VA.


EQM
EQM is a leading provider of environmental services to the public and industrial sectors, including consulting & engineering, clean technology, and remediation & construction management. The company is headquartered in Cincinnati, OH, with satellite offices and operations in 11 states. EQM has longstanding relationships and multi-year contracts with numerous federal agencies, including the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Defense (including the Air Force Center for Engineering & Environment, Naval Facilities Engineering Command, and the Army Corps of Engineers), as well as private sector clients across numerous industries.


FutureHealth
Based in Hunt Valley, Maryland, FutureHealth is a population health management company offering employers solutions to help them better manage the cost and complexity of health care. Founded in 1992, FutureHealth provides URAC accredited disease, case, utilization and maternity management services, as well as health and wellness offerings and a nurse advice and triage line, to individuals nationwide. FutureHealth was acquired by Nationwide Insurance in January 2006.


LAUNCH
LAUNCH Technical Workforce Solutions (LAUNCH TWS) is one of the largest and fastest growing providers of workforce solutions to the aviation industry, and serves leading airlines, MROs, OEMs, and aircraft service centers. The company provides highly skilled aviation personnel, including mechanics, technicians, engineers, and machinists, as well as project-based teams for avionics, structures, and aircraft on ground (AOG). LAUNCH is guided by a leadership team possessing extensive experience and successful track-records in aviation and technical staffing.


Medsite
Medsite is a leading online marketing company, providing educational and value-based interactions with over 50% of US physicians. The company offers its clients innovative solutions and services through its two sales divisions: Physician Access Solutions (PAS) which focuses on providing solutions directly to pharmaceutical and biotech companies and Medsite Partnership Services (MPS) which focuses on providing services to pharmaceutical marketing and communications companies. Medsite was acquired by WebMD (Nasdaq: WBMD) in September 2006.


QPS
QPS provides GLP/GCP-compliant preclinical and clinical research services to pharmaceutical and biotechnology clients worldwide in the areas of Bioanalysis, Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics, Toxicology, Translational Medicine, and Clinical Research. Founded by Dr. Ben Chien in 1995, QPS has Bioanalysis and Preclinical testing facilities at its Newark, DE headquarters; and facilities in Groningen, the Netherlands; Taipei, Taiwan; and Hyderabad, India. Early-phase clinical facilities are located in Springfield, MO; Taipei, Taiwan; Groningen, the Netherlands; and Hyderabad, India.


ReSearch Pharmaceutical Services, Inc.
ReSearch Pharmaceutical Services, Inc. (RPS) is a global, next-generation clinical research organization, or CRO, providing clinical development services to the biopharmaceutical industry. The Company’s services support the design, initiation and management of its clients’ clinical trials programs that are required to obtain regulatory approval to market biopharmaceutical products. RPS provides these services either as integrated solutions, embedded within the client’s internal clinical development operations and supporting the entire breadth of the client’s drug development pipeline, or on a more traditional project-by-project basis. RPS’s innovative, next-generation business model allows it to leverage its clients’ existing processes to improve quality, increase the speed of product development and reduce overall development costs while allowing its clients to maintain control of their development portfolio. RPS offers its services on a global basis, including in North America, Latin America, Europe and Asia, and has developed a diverse client mix including 14 of the 15 largest pharmaceutical companies in the world. RPS was acquired by affiliates of Warburg Pincus in February 2011.


TransForce
Established in 1991, TransForce is the nation’s leading specialty staffing firm devoted exclusively to the transportation industry. The Company is committed to a culture of DOT compliance and safe driving. TransForce operates through a branch network of 33 offices across the nation.


Transformative Pharmaceutical Solutions
Transformative Pharmaceutical Solutions (TPS) provides customized Adaptive Integrated Monitoring solutions to biopharmaceutical company sponsors and investigative sites conducting clinical trials. By leveraging “people, process and technology”, TPS addresses the inefficiencies inherent in current outsourcing strategies and the associated lack of transparency, utilizing real-time monitoring of clinical and operational data to drive quality, efficiency and cost savings. The company brings together industry leaders with over two decades of experience building and implementing integrated solutions within the Pharmaceutical Industry.


Wimba
Wimba (fka HorizonWimba) is a leading provider of collaborative learning software applications and services to the education industry. Its collaborative software applications for the online and blended education market enable institutions to bridge technology and pedagogy by supplementing course management systems with many of the proven disciplines of in-person learning environments. Wimba’s intuitive solutions enable educators and students to quickly and easily teach and learn live online, engage in live chat and instant message exchanges, benefit from oral content being added to text-based course content, and more. Instructors can also use Wimba solutions to convert Microsoft Word documents into accessible web pages and to create and administer tests, quizzes, and exams. Wimba was acquired by Blackboard Inc. (Nasdaq: BBBB) in August 2010.