The Women’s Venture Capital Fund (WVCF) has formed an advisory board comprised of venture capitalists on the West Coast and select limited partners.   Enrique Godreau III is co-founder and managing director of GSharp Ventures and venture partner with 9Mile Labs. He was formerly co-founder and managing director of Voyager

Aligned Asset Managers, a portfolio company of private equity firm GTCR, has named R Barney Walker as director of institutional investments.   Walker will drive Aligned’s distribution and client service activities for its member firms.   Walker will focus on implementing Aligned’s strategic marketing plan across all institutional and retail

Stephen Older has joined McGuireWoods as a partner in its corporate and securities group in New York.   As part of his practice, Older (pictured) routinely represents both issuers and underwriters in a broad variety of securities transactions and has experience in a number of different industries, including healthcare, consumer

Vistra, a provider of corporate, trust and fund administration services, has opened an office in San Francisco as part of a strategic plan to expand services to clients based in the North American western region.   Wouter van Lier joins as commercial director responsible for further developing Vistra’s operations in

The Center for Innovative Technology has appointed Julia Taxin to its CIT GAP Funds Investment Advisory Board (IAB), a panel of private sector experts who guide investment decisions for CIT in emerging, high-growth technology companies in the Commonwealth.   Taxin (pictured) is an associate at Grotech Ventures, which invests in

TAP Advisors, a New York-based investment banking boutique, has appointed James S Kahan as a senior adviser on the firm’s advisory board.   In this role, Kahan will provide strategic advice and counsel to TAP’s management team as it serves clients in the telecommunications and related sectors.   Founded in 2009, TAP