UK lower mid-market investor, Tenzing, has appointed Rowena Murray to its investment team. Murray joins Tenzing from Investec where she was a Director in the Investment Banking team. She joins the Tenzing team with immediate effect and will take responsibility for leading new investments and supporting the firm’s portfolio alongside

Matt O’Connell, former GeoEye CEO, is joining Seraphim Capital as a Partner. O’Connell is widely recognised as a leading authority on the commercialisation of geospatial data, having led GeoEye, a global provider of geospatial intelligence solutions as CEO for 12 years. During that time O’Connell increased the enterprise value from

Murray Devine has appointed Mark Emrich in the firm’s New York office. Emrich will lead Murray Devine’s New York business development activities with an emphasis on alternative investment firms and financial service intermediaries including investment banks, law firms, accounting and audit firms, and insurance companies. Emrich has over 20 years

Callan, an institutional investment consulting firm, has appointed Harshal Shah, CFA, as a senior vice president in the firm’s Private Equity (PE) Research Group in its San Francisco office. Shah most recently was a PE portfolio manager with the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CALPERS). Prior to that, he was

Motive Partners, an investment firm focused on fintech companies, has appointed a Global Advisory Council (GAC) The council consists of: Douglas Flint CBE, Former Group Chairman of HSBC; Russell Fradin, Operating Partner at Clayton, Dubilier & Rice and former President & CEO of SunGard Data Systems; Rosemary Leith, Founding Director

Bregal Freshstream has appointed Lodewijk de Graauw to the newly formed role of Head of Portfolio Operations, in which he will be responsible for working closely with the management teams of companies within Bregal Freshstream’s portfolio, helping them to develop and execute strategies in order to maximise their growth potential. 

Magnus Lilja is taking over the responsibility for leveraged finance at SEB in Germany effective 1 January, 2018. Lilja has many years of experience in the business of leveraging private equity acquisitions. After working for KPMG and the Royal Bank of Scotland, he moved to SEB in Frankfurt in 2011.