Great Rock Capital, an asset-focused commercial finance company specialising in middle market lending, has appointed Ronnie Bloom as Managing Director of Originations. Bloom will be based in Toronto and will be responsible for building relationships, sourcing investment opportunities, and driving the continued expansion of the firm’s footprint in the Canadian market.   “We

Drooms, a provider of secure cloud solutions in Europe, is strengthening its presence in the UK with the appointments of Ditte Nielsen as Senior Business Development Manager and Alessandra Azzena as Business Development Manager. Nielsen and Azzena will be responsible for the development of business relationships, with a focus on

RBC Capital Markets has made two new senior hires – Florent Cassabois joining as RBC as Head of Leveraged Finance based in France and David Brand as a Managing Director in the Central Funding Group based in London. In his newly-created role, Cassabois will be based in Paris and report

CDC has appointed Tony Morgan as its new Managing Director, Direct Equity. Morgan will lead a team over 100 impact investment professionals in CDC’s Direct Equity division and will report directly to Chief Executive Nick O’Donohoe. Morgan has nearly 20 years’ experience as an equity investor. He has held senior

The Riverside Company, a global private equity firm focused on the smaller end of the middle market, has appointed Sean Ozbolt Managing Partner. Ozbolt will lead Riverside’s new initiative focused on value investing. “We are thrilled to have Sean join our team of more than 300 Riversiders across the world,”

Alternative investment firm EnTrust Global has appointed Matt Meissner as a Vice President focused on investment research in the firm’s private debt and real assets division. Meissner, with more than 15 years’ experience in the aviation industry, joins EnTrust Global from Blue Moon Analytics, a cloud-based analytical platform he founded

French private equity firm Activa Capital has appointed Amira Oueld-El Hachemi as Finance Department Analyst. This appointment is in line with Activa Capital’s development strategy, which aims to strengthen its Finance Department.   Oueld-El Hachemi will manage the Activa Capital funds under the direction of Alexandre Chollet, Chief Finance Officer.

Crédit Industriel et Commercial (CIC) has appointed Pierre Vinci as the new General Manager of its London Branch.  Vinci joins from ABN AMRO where he was the Head of Corporate and International Origination within the UK branch’s Asset Based Finance business line. Prior to that, he worked for GE Capital

Mid Europa Partners (Mid Europa), a private equity investor in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), has opened an office in Bucharest, Romania, further deepening its local presence in the country. The firm has also promoted Alain Beyens, its Operating Partner, to equity partner.   Matthew Strassberg, Co-Managing Partner of Mid