St. Paul, Minnesota
www.summitfire.com

Summit Fire Protection Co. is a leading upper Midwestern designer, manufacturer, installer and provider of fire suppression and plumbing systems and related services. With locations across Minnesota and Iowa, it serves customers including contractors, office buildings, retail properties, universities, building owners and professional services firms.

• Prospect teamed with Summit management and two independent equity investors, Jeff Evrard and Lon Binder, to acquire Summit in a recapitalization of the business, in July 2006.
• Summit subsequently acquired Aquarius Sprinkler, Inc. of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. (March 2007)
• Mr. Evrard is Chief Executive Officer; Summit Founder Quintin Rubald III is the company's President; Paul Rascher is Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Binder is Chief Financial Officer.
• Summit seeks to acquire other niche businesses that introduce the company to secondary markets in neighboring states, offer a complementary line of business or deepen its penetration in an existing market.
• SIC codes: 1799 (special trade contractors); 1711 (plumbing, heating and air-conditioning); 7382 (security systems services)
• Mr. Kenter and Mr. David Choe serve the Company as Chairman and Director, respectively.