Ian Pearson, the former Treasury and Business Minister and chief executive of a private equity and consultancy company, has been appointed as a senior adviser to Maven Capital Partners. Maven is an independent private equity business which was established just over 12 months ago following a buy-out from Aberdeen Asset
Equity Risk Partners, an insurance brokerage and consulting firm focused exclusively on the private equity industry, has expanded its Chicago-based team with the addition of Brian Stratton as director – business development. Stratton will be responsible for building and managing client relationships primarily within the firm’s employee benefits practice. Stratton
Atlantic-Pacific Capital, a placement agent and advisory firm, has appointed Sarah McFadden Sandström as a partner in its private funds business. As part of the project management and advisory team, Sandström will work closely with general partner clients on positioning and executing institutional capital raises for funds based in
Venture capital firm Highland Capital Partners has appointed Manish Patel as a principal. Based in Highland’s Menlo Park office, Patel will expand Highland’s reach into Silicon Valley’s entrepreneurial community and help identify and work with the next crop of start-ups. Patel joins Highland from Google where he has held diverse
Telecoms industry veteran Chris Wade has been named executive chairman of VC-Net by the UK’s video conferencing and telecoms solutions provider and its backers MMC Ventures. Wade says: “We are seeing the rise of the ‘smarter corporate’ who use video conferencing to create globally integrated businesses. As a result VC-Net’s
IK Investment Partners, a Pan-European private equity firm, has appointed Kai Wärn as partner with future responsibility for strategy, operations and business control. He is currently chief executive of Swedish-listed company Seco Tool and will begin at IK in January 2011. Wärn will be based in IK’s Stockholm office. Wärn
Energy Capital Partners, a private equity firm focused on investing in North America’s energy infrastructure, has hired Rahman D’Argenio as a principal in the firm’s Short Hills, New Jersey office. D’Argenio will be responsible for leading new investments as well as monitoring portfolio company activity across all of the firm’s
Securities and investment banking firm Jefferies has appointed Kamlesh Bhatia as a managing director responsible for private placement origination within the firm’s equity capital markets group. Bhatia brings to Jefferies more than ten years of investment banking experience, including five years in the equity capital market groups at Piper Jaffray
Starwood Capital Group, a private equity firm focused on real estate and energy investing, is hiring Rodolfo Senra and Vitor Senra to open the firm’s first office in Brazil headquartered in Sao Paolo. As directors of Starwood Capital do Brasil, the two executives will be responsible for expanding Starwood’s presence
Investment banking firm Evercore Partners has appointed Lincoln C. Singleton as a managing director in the firm’s private funds group. Singleton will be based in Evercore’s New York office where he will be responsible for managing the group’s relationships with limited partners in the south-east and Texas. Previously, he was
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