Ethos Capital has appointed Chris Ritchie as a Partner. Ritchie joins from ABRY Partners (ABRY) where Ethos Co-CEOs Erik Brooks and Fadi Chehadé were Partners before co-founding Ethos. Ritchie collaborated on multiple transactions with  Brooks during their tenure together at ABRY.   During his time at ABRY, Ritchie was actively

HCI Equity Partners (HCI), a lower middle market private equity firm focused on partnering with founder-owned distribution, manufacturing and B2B service companies, has promoted Scott Gibaratz to Partner; Brendon Biddle and Tim Frend to Managing Director; and Matt Clark to Vice President. Gibaratz, Partner, joined HCI in 2004 and plays

Apex Group Ltd has appointed John Davis as Managing Director, Singapore. Reporting to Valerie Mantot-Groene, Regional Managing Director, APAC, Davis will be responsible for leading a team of over 100 locally-based experts, and driving the firm’s continued growth and performance in the APAC region. Davis brings over 13 years of

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