Northern Gritstone, a new university spin-out investment business based in the north of England and chaired by Lord Jim O’Neill, has appointed Marion Bernard as Chief Investment Officer. Throughout her career Bernard has focused on funding fast-growing businesses in the UK. She joins Northern Gritstone from SME investor The Firmament

Great Hill Partners, a private equity firm that invests in high-growth, disruptive companies, has appointed Suaad Sait as Growth Partner. In this role, Sait will work collaboratively with Great Hill investment teams to explore new investment opportunities and portfolio company management teams to help design and execute their growth strategies.

Willkie Farr & Gallagher has added David S Hong as a partner in the firm’s Asset Management Department based in the Los Angeles office. Hong was previously a partner at Munger, Tolles & Olson. Hong focuses his practice on the formation and operation of private funds across the spectrum of

Private markets investment management firm Adams Street Partners has added Lou Holland Jr as the fifth member of its Board of Directors. Holland’s addition to the Board of Directors concludes an extensive search within the asset management industry of executives with deep investment management backgrounds and a wide range of

HCML, a UK-based provider of rehabilitation and case management solutions, has appointed industry veteran, Nick Delaney, as CEO following its recent acquisition by healthcare specialist investors, Apposite Capital. Delaney previously headed up the team at Ascenti where he was CEO, growing the business by over five times during his seven

Experienced investor, lender and adviser Stephen Murray has joined YFM Equity Partners (YFM), which has offices in Birmingham, London, Leeds, Manchester and Reading, as investment director to strengthen the firm’s support for fast-growing businesses across the Midlands. YFM typically invests between GBP2 million and GBP10 million per transaction.   Murray

KKR & Co has appointed Matthew Cohler to its Board of Directors, effective 31 December, 2021, taking the number of independent directors to twelve out of a total of sixteen Board seats. Cohler is a former General Partner at the venture capital firm Benchmark, where for over a decade he

Chuck Flynn is to retire as Chairman of Bregal Investments’ fund investing arm, Bregal Private Equity Partners (BPEP), with effect from 1 January, 2023. Flynn will continue as Chairman through 2022 while full leadership of BPEP is assumed by Managing Partner, Jan Faber, who has been Chuck’s partner since BPEP

International law firm McDermott Will & Emery has appointed Samantha Koplik as partner in its Transactions Practice Group based in New York. Koplik, who joins from Dechert, where she served as a pro bono practice leader for the New York office, is a recognised finance lawyer in the market and