Nadim El Gabbani, a senior managing director and private equity dealmaker at Blackstone, has left the alternative asset management firm. El Gabbani, who was based in the firm’s London office, focused on financial services, business services and technology deals on both sides of the Atlantic. According to his LinkedIn profile,

LDC, a UK private equity firm focused on investments in mid-sized businesses, has made two senior promotions with the appointment of Jacob Leone and Grant Goodwin as investment directors, effective 1 April, 2023. Leone joined LDC’s Manchester-based team as an investment manager in 2019 and has been involved in many

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.