The Board of Electra Private Equity has appointed Neil Johnson as non-executive Chairman and Director of the Company with effect from 12 May 2016. Following Johnson’s appointment, Dame Kate Barker, who has been Chairman of the Company since 5 November 2015, will resume her roles as Senior Independent Director and

Adams Street Partners has appointed Brijesh Jeevarathnam as a Partner and Co-Head of Global Venture Fund Investments, and member of its Primary Investment Team, effective 1 June.  Jeevarathnam joins Adams Street Partners from Commonfund, where he served as Managing Director and Co-Head of Global Venture Capital and Global Emerging Markets.

Aleph Venture Capital has appointed Aaron Rosenson as partner, the first not to have been part of the firm’s founding team. Rosenson joins Aleph as its third equal partner effective immediately, three years after Eden Shochat and Michael Eisenberg founded the fund. He joins the fund from Insight Venture Partners

Andrew James Lom, an investment management lawyer, has joined the law firm Norton Rose Fulbright’s New York office as a partner. Lom (pictured) comes to Norton Rose Fulbright from Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP. He represents global asset managers, investors and private companies in a wide range of regulatory and

BTIG, LLC, a global financial services firm specialising in institutional trading, investment banking, research and related brokerage services, has appointed Mark Secrest as a Managing Director within its Healthcare Investment Banking Group.  Secrest will focus on the medical devices, life sciences tools and diagnostics industries, increasingly active areas of growth

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