JPMorgan Asset Management has expanded its private credit platform with the appointment of Vincent Lu and Brian Van Elslander as co-heads of the newly formed Global Performing Credit group.  Lu and Van Elslander bring extensive experience in private credit and private equity sponsor coverage to the roles, and will report

Independent fund administrator Centaur Fund Services has appointed Michael Marisca as Head of Business Development. Based in Centaur’s US headquarters in New York, Marisca will be responsible for overseeing and growing the company’s sales and revenue globally. Marisca has extensive business development experience in the funds industry and has held

Performant Capital, a lower middle market private equity firm focused on investments in technology-driven companies across SaaS, tech-enabled services, and data intelligence products and services, has established a new strategic board of advisers.  This Advisory Board includes distinguished private equity and family office industry veterans whose focus will be to

Ridgemont Equity Partners, a middle market private equity firm, has appointed Justin Lay as Partner and Ryan Shanahan as Vice President. Lay has joined Ridgemont’s Origination & Capital Markets practice, the firm’s dedicated effort to building relationships with intermediaries, trusted advisors, industry executives in the M&A community, as well as

HIG Capital (HIG) has hired John Woyton to lead its dedicated technology buyouts platform, which combines HIG’s existing technology sector capabilities across multiple investing funds. Woyton has spent over 18 years as a private equity investor in the technology sector. Most recently, he was a Managing Director and Partner at

West End law firm, Seddons, has appointed Ben Gillespie as a Partner in the Corporate team.  Gillespie joins the firm from DLA Piper, where he was a Partner in the London office and before that Head of Corporate for the Middle East based out of Dubai. His appointment is with

Apex Group has appointed Andrea Gallenca as Head of Private Market Sales – Australia, and Prakash Kharel, Head of Real Estate, Asia Pacific. Based in Sydney, Gallenca will oversee the Group’s Private Markets’ sales operations in Australia. Gallenca brings more than 18 years of experience in the private funds industry,

Aries I Acquisition Corporation (Aries) has appointed Andrew Lester to its Board of Directors, and Chris Perry to serve as an adviser to the Board. Lester has over 40 years of experience building and managing businesses. Along with his brother Mitchell, he built a 10-person team at Donaldson, Lufkin &