Stoomhamer's hallmark has always been its ability to seize opportunities quickly, remain flexible, and continually and successfully adapt to changing market conditions. One of its greatest strengths is in the ability to operate across business disciplines, identify potential in excesses of various fields and convert such surpluses into valuable products in other areas.

The group's transactions, though far from formulaic, share some basic features: we work to design and execute plans for improving operations in such areas as manufacturing, sales, and marketing. Over time, generally several years, we exit our investments through IPOs, secondary offerings, and sales to strategic buyers.