The African Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (AVCA) has appointed Olusola Lawson to its Board of Directors.  Lawson is currently co-Managing Director at Africa Infrastructure Investment Managers (AIIM) and brings more than 16 years of corporate finance and infrastructure equity investment experience to AVCA. Lawson’s appointment to the Board

The Healthcare Private Equity Association (HCPEA), a non-profit trade association focused on supporting the healthcare private equity community, has appointed Diane Daych, Managing Partner and Co-Founder at Granite Growth Health Partners, as Chair, effective 1 July, 2020. Daych assumes the role from Dr Terry Woodward, Managing Director at Ontario Teachers’ Pension

Following the news of our four new hires earlier this year, Talis Capital has made three key promotions within its investment team. Tom Williams has been promoted to Partner, with Beatrice Aliprandi and Kirill Tasilov both taking the role of Principal. Over the past 12 months, Talis Capital completed 17 investments

Accendo Capital has appointed Michael Rosenlew as Senior Adviser to the Fund. Rosenlew has extensive international investment experience from his long and successful career at IK Investment Partners as well as previous Board experience at Caverion (Chairman), Pöyry and Stockmann. Rosenlew is currently the Chairman of the Board of Hartwall Capital.

Leading global investor services group IQ-EQ has added to its senior corporate services team in the UK with the appointment of Amy LeJune, who joins the group’s Corporate segment as a client services director.Since getting her start at a ‘Big 4’ firm in Texas, LeJune has gained over 20 years’

Onex Corporation has promoted Bobby Le Blanc to President. Le Blanc will oversee all of Onex’ business units and become the sole Head of Onex Partners, the firm’s flagship private equity strategy.  Gerry Schwartz will remain Chairman and CEO, with Le Blanc reporting to him.   Schwartz says: “Having joined the

Schroders has appointed Nicole Kidd as Head of Private Debt for Australia as the firm continues to enhance its private assets capabilities to better meet clients’ evolving investment objectives.Kidd, who has over 25 years of investment banking and asset management experience, will assume the newly-created role on 1 September and

BTIG has appointed Kimberly Boulmetis as a Managing Director in the firm’s Specialty Finance Investment Banking unit. Boulmetis will be based in the firm’s New York office, and will report to Dan Blood, Managing Director and Head of Specialty Finance, at BTIG.In her new role at the firm, Boulmetis will

BTIG has hired Michael Papazis, an aerospace, defence and government services specialist, as a Director within its Investment Banking division. Papazis will be based in the firm’s New York office, and will report to JT Herman, Managing Director and Head of Mergers and Acquisitions, at BTIG. In his new role at

LeapFrog Investments, the Profit with Purpose investment firm whose companies now reach 200 million people, has appointed Bharat Narotam Doshi to its Global Leadership Council.Doshi’s expertise will guide LeapFrog’s leadership team as it makes further investments in companies across India and other emerging markets. LeapFrog aims for its companies to