Emerging Capital Partners, a private equity group focused on Africa, has appointed former World Bank executive Marie-France Mathes as managing director and head of investor relations.  Mathes will lead efforts to strengthen communications with ECP limited partners. The firm looks toward a range of potential acquisitions from its third USD613m

Mario Mancuso, former US under secretary of commerce for industry and security and senior Pentagon official, has joined law firm Fried Frank as a partner resident in its Washington, DC and New York offices.  Mancuso is a prominent authority on international security matters and the US government’s regulation of international

Bertram Capital, a private equity firm headquartered in California, has promoted Ryan Craig and Stephanie Ho to principal. Craig leads the firm’s investment in One Distribution (Supra Footwear and KR3W Apparel) and also serves as a director with Bertram general partner Ken Drazan on the firm’s investment in Genascis. Craig

iNovia Capital, an early stage venture capital fund manager, has appointed angel investor Geoff Judge and entrepreneur investor Kevin Swan as partner and principal, respectively. Judge is an entrepreneur, operator and active angel. He was senior vice president and general manager of the media division at 24/7 Real Media, and

General Atlantic, a growth equity firm, has named J. Frank Brown, the dean of Insead, as a managing director of the firm. Brown will complete his term at Insead in March 2011 and will join General Atlantic in June 2011.   William E. Ford, chief executive officer of General Atlantic,

Ambit Capital has appointed Saurabh Mukherjea as head of equities at the managing director level, strengthening its institutional equities business. Mukherjea will join Ambit after completing his gardening leave, which he is currently serving. The equity business will now be headed by Mukherjea, leaving Andrew Holland to continue to focus

Martin Graham, formerly director of markets and head of AIM at the London Stock Exchange, has joined the board of Secondcap as chairman. Secondcap is the developer of the first web based platform designed to automate the end-to-end transaction process for the secondary private funds market, including private equity, real

The Institutional Limited Partners Association has appointed Timothy Recker of the University of California Regents as chairman. Recker is responsible for the University of California Regents private equity programme with over USD5bn in assets under management. Prior to joining the UC in 2007, Recker was director of alternative investments for

Fountain Partners has appointed John Van Hooser as managing partner. Van Hooser joins Fountain Partners founder Tom Carter in managing its third fund, Fountain Leasing 2010, which is dedicated to equipment leasing needs of venture, growth and expansion stage companies. Van Hooser brings over 15 years of venture capital and