1st Communications is owned by Bain Capital, Triumph Capital Group, and Bill Windsor. Bain Capital, Inc. is a private equity firm that was formed in 1984.  In the last 15 years, Bain has acquired companies which in aggregate have total revenues of approximately $13 billion.  The total purchase prices of these companies exceeds $11 billion. Bain's holdings include Domino's Pizza, Sealy, FTD, Totes, and many others.  Bain Capital is currently managing a pool of capital in excess of $4.5 billion.

Triumph Capital Group, Inc. is a private equity firm that was formed in 1990.   Triumph is currently managing $900 million in capital. Triumph employs professionals with offices in Boston, Hartford, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.   Prior to organizing Triumph in 1990, Triumph's professionals were responsible for special situation investments, and in their investment banking capacity, they raised over $13 billion of debt and equity capital and have been involved in more than $12 billion of merger and acquisition activities.

Bill Windsor has been in the expositions and publishing business for 24 years.   Windsor joined Advanstar Communications in 1992 as Managing Director of the company's publishing and expositions business in Europe.  In 1994, he became President of Advanstar Expositions, one of the largest exposition businesses in North America.  Windsor resigned from Advanstar in 1996 to launch 1st Communications.

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