Vestar Capital Partners, a US private equity firm, has promoted several investment professionals, including Neil Merchant, Mark Dirzulaitis, and Angela Yun to principal, and Alex Veronneau to vice president. Merchant, a member of the Firm’s Business & Technology Services group, joined Vestar in 2018. He previously worked at Welsh, Carson,

PSG, a growth equity firm partnering with software and technology-enabled services companies, has appointed private capital veteran and Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Head of Technology, Media & Telecom, Financial Services and Healthcare, Bogdan Bo Cenanovic, as a Managing Director. Cenanovic will aim to bolster PSG’s Canadian deal flow pipeline. To

Pollen Street Capital (Pollen Street), a fast growing and purpose led alternative asset manager, has appointed William Tice as Partner. He will lead Business Development and expand the firm’s presence in North America.  Tice will be based in Austin, Texas.   Tice brings over 30 years’ experience in financial services

Agathos Management, a lower mid-market private equity firm, has appointed James Bakewell as Partner and Investment Committee member.  Bakewell has 15 years’ private equity experience as an investor and strategic growth specialist in service-oriented businesses across the UK.

Blackfinch Energy, part of Blackfinch Group and a leading investor into UK renewable energy, has made three new hires in its national team, with Alan Gorman, Vuong Nguyen, and Sam Dickerson joining as Investment Director, Investment Manager and Senior Commercial Portfolio Manager, respectively. The move follows an announcement last month

Apex Group (Apex) has appointed Aneeqa Zamal as compliance executive in its Global Compliance Solutions business. Apex Group’s expanding Global Compliance Solutions team offers a global network of compliance experts, supporting clients to meet their operational and regulatory obligations across international financial hubs. Clients include leading fund and asset managers,

CoVenture, an asset management firm investing across the capital stack of tech-enabled companies, has added to its team with the appointment of Naved Sheikh as general counsel.  Prior to CoVenture, Sheikh was an Executive Director at Morgan Stanley where he served as lead counsel for the infrastructure, secondaries, Asia-focused private

InMotion Ventures, the corporate venture capital arm of Jaguar Land Rover, has hired Sam Nasrolahi as principal. Nasrolahi will be responsible for sourcing and leading new deals, as well as supporting existing InMotion portfolio companies.  Her focus area is in consumer digital services and the consumerisation of B2B. The appointment

One Rock Capital Partners (One Rock), a value-oriented, operationally focused private equity firm, has added Diana Barr to its team of operating partners.  Working alongside One Rock operating partners Mike Anderson and AJ Skobel, Barr will be responsible for driving post-acquisition value at One Rock’s portfolio companies primarily through recruiting

Kian Capital Partners (Kian), a middle-market focused private investment firm, has appointed Jordan Lee as a principal. Lee will be based in Charlotte and will be responsible for sourcing, executing and managing new and existing investments across the firm’s portfolio with a focus on the tech-enabled/business services and healthcare services