From Insights to Impact: Our Most Popular Reads of 2025
This year brought new ideas and meaningful conversations across the communications and media industry. At Lumine, we focus on sharing insights that matter, whether its practical strategies, industry perspectives, or stories that spark curiosity. As we wrap up 2025, we’ve gathered five articles that stood out.
Each one offers a perspective on building stronger businesses and navigating new opportunities with confidence. Whether you’re revisiting a favourite or discovering something new, we hope these reads spark ideas as you look to the year ahead.
We look forward to continuing the conversation in 2026.
Leaders on Leaders: A Founder’s Journey to the Next Chapter
In this video from Lumine’s Leaders on Leaders series, we offer a behind-the-scenes look at the relationship-building that set the foundation for Lumine’s acquisition of Collab, and the five-year journey that followed. Elliot Yunger, SVP and Head of Corporate Development at Lumine, joins Pedro Quintas, Founder of Collab and now Group Leader at Lumine, for a thoughtful conversation about the evolution of Collab.
One Year In: Openwave’s Journey of Renewal and Growth
Openwave provides a white-label email and messaging platform for communication service providers, and in 2025 it celebrates 25 years in the software messaging business. This article explores Openwave’s first year with Lumine, showing how post-acquisition collaboration drives brand renewal and growth. You’ll learn what the journey for Openwave looks like, while recognizing that every business brings its own strengths and vision.
How Lumine Builds Value Post-Acquisition
This article shares more about what happens after a company joins Lumine, how we work together with management teams to accelerate performance and build for long-term success. It offers a look at a possible journey of a business after joining Lumine, while still highlighting how every business takes its own unique path to success.
In Conversation With: Arjan Stroomberg, SVP Head of M&A, Lumine Group
At Lumine Group, acquisitions are driven by our buy-and-hold forever model and a deep understanding of the communications and media industry. In this video, SVP and Head of M&A, Arjan Stroomberg, shares how Lumine’s disciplined approach, supported by proven playbooks and processes, enables the team to identify and close deals efficiently.
From Belief to Behavior: How Values Guide Our Growth
At Lumine, our core values – curiosity, humility, intensity, and numeracy, guide our daily actions and leadership. Our leaders embody these principles, asking tough questions, listening, staying focused, and making data-driven decisions. This approach helps empower while driving growth. At Illuminate 2025, our largest portfolio learning event, senior leaders shared how value-based leadership looks in practice.
