- Yabuki joins as Chairman and will co-lead Motive Partners with Founder and 
Managing Partner, Rob Heyvaert 

- Yabuki's appointment bolsters the Motive leadership team with renowned and 
extensive expertise on investing, operating and innovating in financial 
technology as the firm seeks to capitalize on the $9.6 trillion market 
opportunity over the coming decade

- Yabuki joins Motive on the heels of the firm's strategic partnership with 
Apollo Global Management, supporting the firm's growth and integrated approach 
to investing in financial technology

Motive Partners ("Motive"), a specialist private equity firm focused on 
control-oriented growth equity and buyout investments in software and 
information services companies that serve the financial services industry 
("financial technology"), announces the appointment of Jeffery W. Yabuki 
("Jeff") as Chairman and Founding Partner.  Jeff joins Motive having been Chief 
Executive Officer of Fiserv, Inc ("Fiserv"), a global payments and financial 
services technology company, enabling banking, commerce and the movement of 
money among financial institutions, businesses and consumers,  from December 
2005 to July 2020, and also served as Chairman from July 2019 to December 2020. 
Jeff led the company through a strategic transformation including significant 
acquisitions and divestitures almost tripling revenue, dramatically increasing 
operating margin and earnings, and delivered a 969% total shareholder return 
during his tenure as Chief Executive Officer.  

Jeff joins Motive at a pivotal point in the firm's growth journey which follows 
Motive's strategic partnership with Apollo Global Management, Inc. (NYSE: APO). 
Motive's integrated operating model, combining investors, operators and 
innovators, is a core tenet of the firm's strategy and focus on financial 
technology.  Jeff's appointment will see him working in partnership with 
Founder and Managing Partner, Rob Heyvaert ("Rob"), and the Motive team, to 
further scale the firm while capitalizing on the significant financial 
technology market opportunity over the coming decade, by combining capital with 
operating and innovating capabilities to transform and grow businesses to 
enhance performance.

Rob Heyvaert, Founder & Managing Partner at Motive Partners commented: 
"Jeff is one of the most respected and accomplished business leaders in our 
industry and we are excited to welcome him to Motive Partners. Jeff's ability 
to identify industry trends and execute against the opportunity, to drive 
growth at scale, and to identify and work with leading talent will be of 
tremendous value to our firm. The deepening of my partnership with Jeff is the 
continuation of our strategy; bringing world-class and proven leaders into our 
business as we continue to execute on our investment strategy at scale." 

With Jeff's experience in scaling one of the world's most renowned financial 
technology business, including a career of extensive mergers, acquisitions and 
divestitures, complex integrations, organizational design and talent 
acquisition, product innovation, cost-saving programmes and capital allocation, 
Jeff will assume the position of Chairman and Founding Partner, working with 
the Motive leadership team to continue delivering on the existing investment 
strategy, while supporting the scaling and institutionalization of Motive's 
integrated operating model. The combination of Jeff's industry knowledge and 
access alongside Rob's expertise should enable even more success in the 
origination of proprietary dealflow and the execution of Motive's integrated 
investor, operator and innovator model.  

Jeff Yabuki, Chairman and Founding Partner at Motive Partners commented: 
"We are in the early stages of a technology-based transformation which I 
believe will have a profound impact on the way people and businesses engage in 
financial services over the short, mid and long-term. The scale of innovation 
and change we will experience over the next 5 years will dramatically 
overshadow what we saw in the last decade. 

Having known and worked with Rob for more than a decade, I know that Motive 
brings a mindset of strategic differentiation, accelerated innovation and the 
focused leadership necessary to standout in this exciting time in financial 
technology. I am thrilled to be part of the team and look forward to driving 
results for the firm, our portfolio companies and their end-customers."

About Motive Partners

Motive Partners is a specialist private equity firm focusing on growth equity 
and buyout investments in software and information services companies based in 
North America and Europe and serving five primary subsectors: Banking & 
Payments, Capital Markets, Data & Analytics, Investment Management and 
Insurance. Motive Partners has offices in New York City and London, and brings 
differentiated expertise, connectivity and capabilities to create long-term 
value in financial technology companies.

More information on Motive Partners can be found at www.motivepartners.com

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SOURCE: Motive Partners