Fiona Southall has joined Edmond de Rothschild Asset Management as “Senior Specialist Sales – Private Markets”. Based in the Paris office, she reports to Gad Amar, Deputy CEO at Edmond de Rothschild Asset Management, who is also responsible for business development. Southall (pictured) is in charge of promoting the Private

LiveOak Venture Partners, an early-stage venture capital firm based in Austin, Texas, has appointed David Stewart as Venture Partner. Stewart will focus on sourcing and evaluating investment opportunities, as well as providing strategic guidance to LiveOak’s portfolio companies. He is the sixth member of the firm’s investment team, working closely

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