Investment banking boutique Chestnut Hill Partners has appointed Ryan Jon Orner as a director to manage and oversee the firm’s increased activity in targeted search engagements across middle market companies. Additionally, he will be involved in all other aspects of Chestnut Hill Partners’ transactions including merger and acquisition origination, co-investment

Investment banking boutique Chestnut Hill Partners has appointed Michael W. Jalbert as a managing director. Jalbert’s (pictured) primary responsibility will be to manage and oversee the firm’s executive sponsorship programme, which makes it possible for seasoned operating executives to participate in the development of private equity transactions and ultimately to run

International law firm Dechert has appointed Olivier Dumas as a partner in the financial services practice group in Paris.   Prior to joining Dechert, Dumas (pictured) was a partner at Proskauer Rose where he was co-head of its Paris office’s private equity team focusing on fund formation. Dumas advises on

Elevation Partners, a private equity firm focused on large-scale investments in consumer and technology businesses, has hired Rajiv Dutta as a managing director. Dutta (pictured) brings to Elevation more than 25 years of senior operational and investment experience in consumer and technology businesses. Most recently, he served as executive vice

Mark Wössner has been appointed principal senior adviser of Corestate, a Swiss private equity investor seated in Zug, Switzerland. He will counsel Corestate in the business areas of acquisition and restructuring of non-performing portfolios and loans.   “We are seeing a lot of portfolios who got into trouble due to

Global private equity firm J.C. Flowers has strengthened its operations with two senior appointments to its London office.   Dr. David Morgan (pictured) has been appointed managing director, JCF Europe and Asia Pacific, and Sir Callum McCarthy has been appointed to the newly-created post of chairman, JCF Europe. Morgan, currently

Resilience Capital Partners, a Cleveland, US-based private equity firm, has added Steven J. Demetriou as a member of its executive committee and its board of advisers. Since December 2004, Demetriou (pictured) has been the chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Aleris International, an international aluminum company, following

Michael Brehm has joined Munich-based venture capital firm Target Partners as a venture partner. Brehm (pictured), formerly a managing director of Berlin-based VZnet Netzwerke, will strengthen the venture capital firm’s focus on start-ups and consumer internet. Brehm is also an active business angel, having invested in numerous companies since 2006.

I2BF, an international cleantech focused investment management group, has appointed David Waserstein as director of investments. Waserstein joins I2BF from US-based private equity firm Hudson Clean Energy Partners. He was at Hudson from its inception and worked on the initial fund raise as well as several deals in wind, solar

Liber Capital, a private equity firm specialising in beverage industry investments, has appointed Art Friedman to its senior management team as managing director. Friedman was formerly president and chief executive officer of Gold Coast Distributors and has served on several industry advisory councils. "Art’s experience and expertise will be invaluable