Drawbridge, a provider of cybersecurity software and solutions to private equity, hedge fund, and venture capital firms, has appointed Chris Aronis as chief revenue officer. Aronis will lead the Drawbridge sales, account management and business development teams. 

Syncona Ltd, a healthcare investment company focused on the life sciences sector, has appointed Roel Bulthuis as managing partner and head of investments. Bulthuis has over 20 years of life science venture capital, business development and investment banking experience. Bulthuis joins from Inkef Capital, an Amsterdam-based venture capital firm, where

EY has made two additions to the EY Global Private Equity leadership team – Konstanze Nardi has been appointed as the EY Global Private Equity Exit Readiness Leader and Will Rhode as EY Global Private Equity ESG Leader.  The two senior appointments follow an investment of around $1 billion phased

LongRange Capital, a middle market private equity firm, has appointed Andrew Cialino as principal, head of business development. In this role, he will oversee deal origination and sourcing activities at the firm. Cialino is joining the LongRange team from SFW Capital Partners, where he was principal and head of business

JP Morgan has appointed Alex Bell as a partner on the sustainable investment team within the JP Morgan Private Capital group. Bell, who joins from Tikehau Capital, has nearly two decades of private equity experience.  Bell spent about a year at Tikehau as head of the firm’s North American private

Riverwood Capital, an private investor that manages $5.6 billion and makes investments in high-growth technology businesses globally, has promoted three long-tenured executives – Joe De Pinho, Alex Porto, and Ramesh Venugopal – to partner.

Argand Partners, a New York- and San Francisco Bay Area-based private equity firm, has made a senior addition to its investment team with the appointment of Eric Korsten as Managing Director. Gerald Lizzo has also joined the firm as an Associate.

Actis, a UK-based private investment firm focused on sustainable infrastructure, has appointed Neda Vakilian as head of its Investor Solutions Group (ISG), which was previously known as the Investor Development Group. Vakilian is based in London and will be responsible for leading Actis’ capital raising initiatives and strategic investor programs.

HCI Equity Partners, a lower middle market private equity firm,.has added Bob Currier to the HCI Executive Partner group to advise on human capital management, including talent acquisition, organisational design, leadership development and succession throughout the entire HCI portfolio. 

Brian Tierney, global head of portfolio operations and asset management at Blackstone, is leaving the firm to take up the role of president and chief executive officer at electricity supply, distribution and generation company FirstEnergy Corp. Tierney, who will join FirstEnergy on 1 June, is the company’s first permanent CEO