Ultimus LeverPoint Private Fund Solutions, a tech-driven private fund administrator, has appointed Scott Trimble as Senior Vice President of Business Development. 

Geoff Hutchinson has been appointed as head of private equity for Australia and New Zealand at Carlyle Group Inc, according to a report by Bloomberg. Hutchinso joins the firm as a managing director from New Zealand-based  infrastructure investor Morrison & Co, where he was co-head for Australia and New Zealand.

Asante Capital Group (Asante), an independent private equity placement and advisory group, has launched a series of strategic growth initiatives designed to enhance the firm’s ability to connect Asia-based GPs with allocators across the globe and strengthen their ability to penetrate Asian pools of capital. Asante has GP clients throughout

Advent International (Advent) has appointed Shar Dubey and Mandy Ginsberg as Operating Partners. Dubey and Ginsberg will play key roles in further building out Advent’s consumer technology practice and work collaboratively with the firm’s consumer and technology investment teams and the management teams of its portfolio companies. Dubey and Ginsberg

Guidepost Growth Equity has appointed Nate Machado as Operating Partner, and Taylor Doherty and Reginald Seawright as Vice Presidents. Additionally, Steve Brown has been promoted to Vice President. Macado will lead the Value Creation Group which works closely with Guidepost entrepreneurs to provide functional, industry and stage relevant operational expertise

Dechert LLP has appointed Matthias Kerbusch as a partner in the firm’s financial services group on Luxembourg.

Shield Capital has appointed Michael A Brown and John “JJ” Jack as Venture Partners. Both will bring proprietary deal-flow to the firm and seasoned management, industry expertise, and go-to-market leadership to Shield’s portfolio companies. Brown and Jack have built and scaled market-leading technology companies over thirty years. Their experience and

Brighton Park Capital (Brighton Park), a growth equity investment firm that specialises in partnering with software, healthcare and tech-enabled services businesses, has made two key senior hires – Calen Angert, who joins the firm as a Partner and Head of the Healthcare Group, and John Cordo, who joins as a

Nick Burley, the former Chief Financial Officer at European healthcare services business Alliance Medical, has joined the new Capital Solutions team at sustainable investment manager Downing LLP.  Burley will join Downing’s Capital Solutions team and partner with former M&G Fund Manager Paul Taylor, who recently joined Downing. Downing’s newly established

Jorge ‘Jordie’ Olivella, BlackRock’s Miami-based head of US offshore distribution has quit the company to join private equity firm KKR as head of Latin America wealth, according to a report by Citywire. Olivella ended his six-year stay at the US asset manager last month, having most recently headed its offshore