Private investment firm HarbourVest Partners has appointed Olav König as a managing director and head of sales and client service for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. In this role König, a German national and a lawyer by background, will expand and enhance HarbourVest’s relationships with investors and their
AXA Private Equity has appointed Juan Angoitia as managing director in the infrastructure team based in the Paris office. AXA Private Equity’s infrastructure team has USD4bn of assets under management. Angoitia has 15 years’ experience within the infrastructure industry. Prior to joining AXA Private Equity, he spent five
Matthew McAskin has joined the Evercore’s investment banking business as a senior managing director in its healthcare group. He will be based in New York and will focus on advising clients in the healthcare services sector. McAskin was most recently a managing director and co-head of healthcare services
Foundation Capital has named Jonathan Ehrlich as partner at the firm. Ehrlich (pictured), a former director of marketing at Facebook, will concentrate on identifying and investing in early-stage consumer, mobile, and small business oriented startups and technologies. “Jonathan is everything Foundation Capital looks for in a partner,” says
Katherine Woodthorpe is retiring from her role as chief executive of The Australian Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (AVCAL). Woodthorpe says that after seven years in the role, the time is right for her to pursue fresh challenges. AVCAL’s chairman John White says: “Shortly after Katherine joined
The Riverside Company has added two industry veterans as advisors to its European team to help identify investment opportunities and contribute to existing investments. They join a growing global team of 10 advisors. Kai Lucks comes to Riverside after 35 years at Siemens, where he ran businesses in
Tikehau Group has strengthened its private debt team with the appointments of Cécile Mayer-Levi in Paris and Patrick Marshall in London. Mayer-Levi, 48, has over 26 years of experience in financing investment and corporate finance. A graduate of HEC, she began her career at Merrill Lynch in the
Blackstone Advisory Partners has appointed Karl Knapp as a senior managing director based in New York to head up the group’s global industrials practice. Knapp brings over 20 years of dedicated industry experience, most recently as the head of the global industrials group at UBS and a vice chairman
Business Talent Group, which brings organisations and top-tier independent professionals together to drive change and address business challenges, has added director Paul Tufaro to its client development team. With more than six years of investment banking and private equity experience, and an MBA from Georgetown University, Tufaro will work
Altius Associates has made adjustments to its executive management team, with John A Hess, the co-founder and chief executive officer since 1998, assuming the full time role of executive chairman. Assuming the chief executive role with immediate effect will be a triumvirate of three existing executive directors of the
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