Vic Kotecha has joined BerchWood Partners, a global placement agency specialising in raising capital for private equity funds, as a London-based Vice President bringing over 17 years of experience in business development and sales across various areas in the financial sector. Cory Osetkowski is also joining the firm’s New York office

Global technology investor, Amadeus Capital Partners, has promoted Amelia Armour and Pierre Socha to Partner in the firm’s Early Stage Fund team. Armour says: “I’m delighted to be recognised, having been supported by the great team at Amadeus over the past ten years. The most fulfilling part of the role

The African Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (AVCA) has appointed Dara Owoyemi as Interim CEO, following the departure of Michelle Kathryn Essomé last month.Owoyemi previously served as Board Member and Chief Operating Officer of AVCA, from 2011 to 2017. She was instrumental in re-building and re-vitalising the Association to

Octopus Group has appointed of Tancredi Micangeli and Angela Gyulveszy, as distribution managers in its institutional funds team.Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…

CEPRES has appointed Tony Chung as Chief Business Development Officer. In this role, he will be responsible for all aspects of business development for CEPRES’ core products and for further expanding CEPRES’ market penetration as a fast growing and innovative Private Equity Fintech Company. 

Investcorp, a global provider and manager of alternative investment products, has appointed Jordana Semaan, Head of HR Gulf and Asia into a newly established role as Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) Champion, reporting directly to the Executive Chairman, Mohammed Alardhi. The firm has also announced a series of initiatives to enhance its D&I

Silverfleet Capital (Silverfleet), a pan-European private equity firm, has appointed Dr Christian Süss as a Partner in its Munich office, further strengthening its investment team in the DACH region. Süss, an Austrian national, joins Silverfleet from Towerbrook, where he was a Senior Principal, working across the company’s buyout and structured minority

Duff & Phelps has appointed Ven Balakrishnan as a managing director in the firm’s Transaction Advisory Services practice. Balakrishnan will lead the firm’s Strategy and Commercial Diligence offering and will be based in London.Balakrishnan has over 25 years of experience, including 15 years as managing director/partner, providing strategic and financial

Global professional services firm Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) has strengthened its Asia restructuring practice with the appointment of Edward Middleton as Managing Director based in Hong Kong. This appointment demonstrates A&M’s commitment to bolstering the firm’s growing capabilities in Asia.   Middleton brings more than three decades of experience in restructuring,