QED Investors, a global venture capital firm focused on investing in disruptive financial services companies, has promoted Laura Bock to partner. “Laura is a true rising star at QED,” says QED Investors Co-Founder and Managing Partner Nigel Morris. “In addition to her stellar work leading QED to invest in multiple

One Rock Capital Partners (One Rock), a value-oriented, operationally focused private equity firm, has appointed Fola Adamolekun as General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer.  Based in New York, Adamolekun will lead and oversee One Rock’s legal and compliance functions.   Adamolekun joins One Rock after serving as an Executive Director

Ostmodern’s Skylark has announced an expansion of its commercial team. Taylor Riese, formerly of Verizon Media Platform has been named the new Chief Revenue Officer and Lasharna Turner, formerly Adobe is the new Head of Marketing.  The news comes after Ostmodern recently secured GBP2 million in investment from Puma Private

Nordic Capital Advisors has expanded its Evolution investment advisory team with the appointment of Alfa Chan as a Partner.  Chan joins as Nordic Capital continues to put its proven model to work in the mid-market, investing in innovative growth companies in its focus sectors to accelerate sustainable growth and expansion.

Motive Partners (Motive), a specialist private equity firm focused on control-oriented growth equity and buyout investments in software and information services companies that serve the financial services industry (financial technology), has appointed Jeffery W Yabuki as Chairman and Founding Partner.  Yabuki joins Motive having been Chief Executive Officer of Fiserv,

Vista Equity Partners (Vista), a global investment firm focused exclusively on enterprise software, data and technology-enabled businesses, today announced it has expanded its value creation and operational leadership team.  The firm has named three industry veterans as senior operating leaders: Craig Hayman, Operating Advisor for Vista’s Flagship Fund; Angela Pecoraro,

AnaCap Financial Partners (AnaCap) has announced the spin-out of its analytical technology platform and team into a standalone business.  The new entity, Equipped AI Limited (Equipped) is a data analytics and technology service that provides consulting in conjunction with its bespoke software platform, ‘Minerva’ to drive business solutions for the

European credit specialist AlbaCore Capital Group (AlbaCore) has made three senior hires to reinforce its Operations, Business Development and Investor Relations teams. As part of the growth of the AlbaCore platform, investing across the European credit spectrum with USD8.5bn AUM, AlbaCore has bolstered its senior executive group. Jenny Fung is

Ara Partners (Ara), a private equity firm specialising in industrial decarbonisation investments, has hired Sarah Kent and Rob Tripp as Operating Partners, David Lynch as a Principal and Chris Trachier as a Senior Associate. “The additions of Sarah and Rob help us further deepen our operating expertise and actively manage

Global professional services firm Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) has expanded its Global Transaction Advisory Group (TAG) into Geneva, with the appointment of Amaury Bonnaire as Managing Director.  Following  the arrival of Managing Directors Cristina Almeida and Ignacio Basagoiti in Madrid and Ali Anwar, in Dubai, Bonnaire’s hire aligns with A&M’s