Sabine Mathis, Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of BlackFin Capital Partners, has been promoted to a partner in the firm. Mathis joined BlackFin Capital Partners in 2011 as CFO. Prior to joining BlackFin, she spent several years as an auditor at Ernst & Young (from 2002 to 2008), then as chief

Silversmith Capital Partners (Silversmith), a growth equity firm focused on supporting the best entrepreneurs in technology and healthcare, has named Mike Lester, Bill Ready, and Ashok Subramanian as Senior Advisors of the firm.  In this capacity, each will contribute to the firm by offering industry insight, sourcing new investment opportunities,

Seventure Partners has further strengthened its Life Sciences team with two new appointments; Professor Denise Kelly joins as an Investment Advisor whilst Oxana Kukhaneva has been appointed Venture Partner. Kukhaneva joins Seventure from Inventages Venture Capital, where she was Investment Manager of the investment team. Oxana brings over 12 years’

Fund finance partner Liz Soutter has joined Mayer Brown’s Banking & Finance practice in London. She was formerly at Dentons, where she was a partner. Soutter provides debt financing solutions on both mainstream and alternative asset classes to investment funds across a range of sectors, including private equity and financial

Mid-market private equity house Dunedin has promoted Nicholas Hoare and Simon Rowan to Partner, Andrew Davidson to Senior Associate and Katie Chung to Associate.   The promotions follow a busy first quarter for the firm, which completed an investment in £80m Alpha FMC last month, as well as the sale

Oliver Olah has joined Vinson & Elkins as counsel in the firm’s M&A and Capital Markets Practice Group. He will be based in the New York office. Olah joins V&E from the Frankfurt office of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, where his key areas of practice were cross-border private equity,

Aurelius Group has made its third hire of 2016 with the appointment of Ed Akenhead as Operational Manager.  Akenhead, who joins as part of Aurelius’ UK operational team with immediate effect, will be placed at Allied Healthcare, the UK market-leading domiciliary care business acquired from Saga plc in December 2015. 

Private equity firm TA Associates has hired Diana Martz in the newly created role of Vice President, Human Capital. Martz will be based in TA’s Boston office. Martz is a member of TA’s Strategic Resource Group, which leverages diverse consulting and operating experience to support the scaling of growth and

Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners (DTCP), a provider early- and late-stage venture capital, private equity and strategic advisory services to the technology, media and telecommunication sectors, has appointed Jack Young as the firm's Partner in charge of global venture operations.  DTCP has also opened a new US office on Sand Hill