privately held company industry private equity founded 1981 headquarters 55 east 52nd street new york new york united states key people jeffrey t. stevenson david bainbridge morgan callagy trent hickman christopher russell patrick n.w. turner products vss structured capital website www.vss.com veronis suhler stevenson or vss is a private investment firm that invests in the information business services healthcare it education media and marketing industries in north america and europe . since 1987 vss has managed seven private investment funds with aggregate initial capital commitments totaling over 3 billion including four equity funds and two structured capital funds . to date vss funds have invested in 74 platform companies which have together completed over 330 add on acquisitions . 1 vss has headquarters based in new york city and has offices in london where it operates as veronis suhler stevenson international ltd. 2 contents 1 corporate history 2 investment and buyout activities 3 media industry publications 4 notes 5 references 6 external links corporate history edit the company was founded as veronis suhler & associates vs & a in 1981 by john j. veronis and john s. suhler . 3 veronis cofounded psychology today magazine and its associated enterprises and suhler was a former president of cbs publishing group . 4 jeffrey t. stevenson joined the company the following year and became a named partner in 2001 . 5 investment and buyout activities edit as of 2013 update vss s portfolio of equity and capital funds have been invested in 74 companies resulting in over 300 add ons and acquisitions transactions . current and former platform company investments for vss include infobase publishing kansas broadcasting system ite group granada learning csc media group cambium learning group and yellow book usa . vss management of equity and mezzanine investment funds commenced from 1987 6 and in that year completed some 25 media company deals at a value totalling over 1 billion . 7 by 2006 vss investment funds managed commitments over 2.8 billion . 8 in 2005 vss partnered with mecom group an investment company headed by former mirror group chief executive david montgomery to acquire berliner verlag the publisher of german daily newspapers berliner zeitung and berliner kurier among other titles . this acquisition of a company valued at 53m from the former owners holtzbrinck represented the first foreign takeover of a german daily newspaper . 9 media industry publications edit in addition to its investment and recapitalization portfolios vss also conducts and publishes research data on financing & statistics forecasts and industry trends for the media publishing and communications sector . it produces two widely consulted american media industry periodicals communications industry forecast issn 1546 0797 and communications industry report issn 1552 7034 . 10 notes edit about vss . vss corporate website . retrieved 2008 08 19 . contacts . vss corporate website . retrieved 2008 08 19 . world advertising research center n.d. fabrikant 1988 team . vss corporate website . retrieved 2008 08 19 . world advertising research center n.d. fabrikant 1988 world advertising research center n.d. brook 2005 greco 2005 pp. 98 100 278 references edit brook stephen october 25 2005 . montgomery concludes german publisher deal . the guardian . guardian media group . retrieved 2008 08 19 . fabrikant geraldine july 15 1988 . the media business ; matchmakers for magazine industry . new york times . the new york times company . retrieved 2008 08 19 . greco albert n. 2005 . the book publishing industry 2nd ed . . mahwah nj lawrence erlbaum associates . isbn 0 8058 4853 3 . oclc 53954261 . world advertising research center n.d. . veronis suhler stevenson . content & partners . warc . retrieved 2008 08 19 . external links edit official website works by or about veronis suhler stevenson in libraries worldcat catalog works by or about veronis suhler & associates in libraries worldcat catalog v t e private equity and venture capital investment firms investment strategy venture growth mezzanine secondaries leveraged buyout history history of private equity and venture capital early history of private equity private equity in the 1980s private equity in the 1990s private equity in the 2000s investors angel investor corporate venture capital commercial bank crowdfunding institutional investor insurance company investment bank endowment family office fund of funds high net worth individual merchant bank pension fund sovereign wealth fund private equity firms venture capital firms portfolio companies retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title veronis suhler stevenson & oldid 741698639 categories private equity firms of the united statescompanies based in new york citycompanies established in 1981media industryhidden categories articles containing potentially dated statements from 2013all articles containing potentially dated statements navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 29 september 2016 at 03 44 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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