UK venture philanthropy firm Impetus Trust has appointed Louis Elson, managing partner and co-founder of Palamon Capital Partners, as its new chairman. Elson has been a trustee of Impetus since July 2009 and will officially become Impetus chairman on 24 March 2010. Elson co-founded Palamon in 1999 and prior to
Special situation private equity fund Versa Capital Management has opened offices in Chicago and Los Angeles with the addition of Suzanne Yoon and David McReynolds. Yoon joins Versa as director – Midwest US, based in Chicago. Prior to joining Versa, Yoon was a senior vice president of CIT’s national restructuring
Private equity firm Vestar Capital Partners has made nine promotions. Evan Marks, Brendan J. Spillane and Oussama I. Takla have been promoted to managing director; Garrick D. Bernstein has been promoted to principal; Fabrizio Gualdi, Gregor Hengst and John B. Stephens have been promoted to vice president; and Patrick Hofmann
Credit Suisse has appointed Neil Harvey as managing director and head of Asia Pacific and head of emerging markets globally for asset management, effective 1 February 2010. Harvey (pictured) will be based in Hong Kong and will report to Robert Shafir, chief executive of asset management, and Kai Nargolwala, chief executive
Red Fort Capital, a private equity real estate firm focused on India, has appointed Raj S. Inamdar as principal. Inamdar will coordinate the firm’s expansion in areas such as completed asset acquisitions, third-party asset management, side-car ventures and debt financing. These initiatives will complement Red Fort’s existing investment platform focused
Saints Capital, a secondary direct investment firm, has appointed Niko von Huetz as director of European investments. Huetz (pictured) previously worked as investment director and partner at Add Partners, a pan-European, London-based ICT focused venture firm. Before that he worked with ICG & Partners and was co-founder, VP marketing and
European mid-market specialist BLM Partners has appointed Jeffrey Iverson as general counsel and a principal. In addition to his responsibility for all legal and compliance matters, Iverson will work closely with the founding partners to continue to develop BLM’s investment offering and deliver its strategy. Iverson joins BLM from Nomura
Mid Europa Partners, a private equity firm focused on buyouts in Central Europe, has promoted Nikolaus Bethlen and Stefan Tzvetkov to director level. Pawel Padusinski (pictured) and Cezary Pietrasik have been promoted to the associate director level, and Tomasz Blicharski and Vladislav Ratajac to senior associate. Thierry Baudon, Mid Europa’s
Raphael Kassin, a specialist in emerging market bonds, has joined the Geneva-based group Reyl & Cie as head of emerging markets and debt. Kassin, who took up his new position on 1 January, left Credit Suisse Asset Management, where he was head of emerging markets fixed income, in June 2009
Perceva Capital, a Paris-based independent investment company, has added Christophe Ambrosi to its team. Ambrosi began his career in 1996 with Mercer Management Consulting (now Oliver Wyman). In 2001 he joined the LBO firm Astorg Partners, and from 2005 to 2008 he worked at Butler Capital Partners. In 2009, he
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