Responsibility

Committed to Investing Responsibly

At TJC, we believe thoughtful consideration of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) factors makes good business sense and offers us the opportunity to improve the overall performance and impact of our portfolio companies. We focus on building long-term value at the companies we own and consider their employees and communities among our key stakeholders.

ESG at TJC

We’re happy to share our annual ESG report publicly and we hope it offers insight into the hard work we are putting in to creating a world-class ESG program.

ESG Report preview

“Rather than looking for “ESG investments,” we look for businesses that have ESG opportunities and need our help to get better, or we find businesses with strong, untold ESG stories. This is central to our investment philosophy of looking for assets we can potentially enhance over time.”

Rich Caputo

Chairman and Chief Executive Partner

Our ESG Process

We seek to integrate ESG into each phase of our investment process. Our materiality-based approach helps us focus on the subset of ESG issues most relevant to the business models we see in prospective and existing investments.

Pre-Investment

Due Diligence

Investment Committee

Ownership

Monitoring

Value Creation

Exit

Disclosure

Lasting Impact

While TJC seeks to integrate certain ESG factors into its investment process and firm operations, there is no guarantee that TJC’s ESG strategy will be successfully implemented or that any investments or operations will have a positive ESG impact. Applying ESG factors to investment decisions involves qualitative and subjective decisions and there is no guarantee the criteria used by TJC to formulate decisions regarding ESG, or TJC’s judgment regarding the same, will be reflected in the beliefs or values of any particular client or investor. There are significant differences in interpretation of what constitutes positive ESG impact and those interpretations are rapidly changing. The description of ESG integration herein is provided to illustrate TJC’s intended approach to investing and firm operations.

TJC’s ESG Committee

The committee provides oversight and governance to our ESG initiatives. Our interdisciplinary committee members help drive implementation and provide feedback for enhancing our ESG platform. We include TJC team members from across several groups and experience levels to capture diverse ideas and perspectives on how ESG impacts, and can improve, our complete investment lifecycle.

“We strive for our team members, both at TJC and at our portfolio partners, to make ESG a part of the calculus in everyday decisions. We want to take advantage of the opportunity to make positive changes for our employees, our business partners, our communities, and others with whom we engage.”

Lisa Ondrula

Chairperson, Partner, Co-Head of OMG

“We strive for our team members, both at TJC and at our portfolio partners, to make ESG a part of the calculus in everyday decisions. We want to take advantage of the opportunity to make positive changes for our employees, our business partners, our communities, and others with whom we engage.”

Lisa Ondrula

Chairperson, Partner, Co-Head of OMG

Supporting Our Portfolio

BEST PRACTICES ACROSS KEY ESG THEMES

TJC continues to develop a suite of resources for our portfolio companies to support their ESG efforts. We strive to meet our middle-market portfolio companies wherever they are on their ESG journey and help them focus their resources on value-additive initiatives.

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Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

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Workforce
Well-being & Safety

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Climate Change

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Cybersecurity

TJC’s DEI Committee

The DEI Committee spearheads DEI initiatives at TJC under the leadership of Eion Hu, a senior partner on TJC’s investment team. Representing various disciplines and staff levels at the Firm, the DEI Committee plays a key role in identifying strategies for engaging TJC employees on DEI training and education. As our Firm becomes more diverse, we seek to continuously move our culture forward to promote inclusivity and equitable opportunities for our teammates.

“Embracing DEI has made us a more talented, more creative, and much stronger team. We are all unique, which is key to our success.”

Eion Hu

Chairperson, Partner, Co-Head of Technology, Telecom and Power

“Embracing DEI has made us a more talented, more creative, and much stronger team. We are all unique, which is key to our success.”

Eion Hu

Chairperson, Partner, Co-Head of Technology, Telecom and Power

Industry partnerships

ESG Affiliations

We participate in select industry organizations to enhance our capabilities, build knowledge on priority ESG topics, and share best practices. We are committed to participating in efforts that support the growth and development of ESG in private equity to the extent beneficial to our investors and portfolio companies.

Supporting Diversity Initiatives in our Industry

We are proud to support initiatives that foster DEI in our industry, broaden access to opportunities in private equity, and offer underrepresented groups exposure to financial topics.

ESG

It starts with us

“One of the reasons why I love working on this topic at TJC is that we are aligned from the leadership of my firm all the way to down through our newest team members that ESG should be authentic, it should be tied to value creation, and that fundamentally these are the right things to do, and we care about working with people and companies that do the right thing.”

Leah Yablonka

ESG Manager