Private equity firm Phoenix Equity Partners has promoted David Burns and Richard Daw to managing partners of the firm, alongside James Thomas who has been a managing partner since 2001. Sandy Muirhead, who has also been a managing partner of Phoenix throughout this period, is stepping down as a managing
Venture capital firm Lux Capital has promoted Zack Schildhorn and Shahin Farshchi to partner and Adam Goulburn to principal. “We’re incredibly proud of the growth and contributions from Zack, Shahin and Adam,” says Peter Hebert, co-founder and managing partner of Lux Capital. “Each has proven themselves over a period of
European sector-focused private equity firm HgCapital has made 15 internal promotions. In the service team, Andrew Land has been promoted to partner, and both Simon Cottle and Thorsten Toepfer have been promoted to director. Land joined the firm in 2011 from Och-Ziff Capital Management and has spent the last
Private equity and real estate secondary manager Landmark Partners has hired Geoffrey Mullen as a principal with the firm. Mullen joins Landmark to enhance and expand the firm’s business development and investor relations team. Most recently, he was a managing director at Morgan Stanley Alternative Investment Partners, where he
Perella Weinberg Partners has appointed Jorma Ollila, former chairman and chief executive officer of nokia and current chairman of the board of directors of Royal Dutch Shell and Outokumpu Oyj, as advisory partner. Ollila will provide senior counsel to the firm and its clients, particularly in Europe. Joseph Perella,
Private equity fund administrator Ipes has appointed Mark Coppin as operations director for Ipes UK. Coppin (pictured) brings with him more than 16 years financial services experience during which he has specialised in private equity accounting and administration. A member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and
Andrew Crawford has joined General Atlantic (GA) as a managing director based in New York. He will lead GA’s global investment activity in the retail and consumer sector. General Atlantic’s most recent investments in this sector include Tory Burch and AND Designs. “We are pleased to welcome Andy
Hycroft, a specialty investment bank focused exclusively on the alternative investments market, has appointed Tom Bratkovich as managing director. Bratkovich will head Hycroft's San Francisco office and provide coverage for the US West Coast and select Asia-Pacific markets. At Hycroft, Bratkovich will lead the firm's limited partner advisory
Private equity firm Vector Capital has appointed Matthew Blodgett as a managing director. Blodgett joins Vector having spent almost 14 years working with technology companies, including more than a decade as a technology investor. He was most recently a partner at North Bridge Growth Equity and prior to that
The Institutional Limited Partners Association (ILPA) has made two key senior hires – Jennifer Choi to managing director, industry affairs, and Nicole Caty to managing director, membership and events. “We are pleased to be adding such talented executives to enhance and broaden the ILPA team,” says Michael Mazzola, ILPA chairman
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