Highland Capital Partners has strengthened its consumer internet and digital media practice with the appointment of Manish Patel as a partner in its Menlo Park office. After spending nearly seven years at Google building the products and teams responsible for many of the company’s key product offerings, from AdWords and

Bindi Karia has joined Silicon Valley Bank’s UK branch to lead the firm’s efforts in the early stage “accelerator” space. Karia (pictured), currently the venture capital/emerging business lead at Microsoft UK, will begin the newly created role in January 2013, reporting into Phil Cox, head of EMEA and India and

The Institutional Limited Partners Association has appointed Michael Mazzola, managing director, head of alternative investments at MetLife, to the position of chairman of ILPA’s board of directors. "I am pleased to have the opportunity to chair the ILPA and to support the organization as it expands its global reach,” says

DN Capital, an early stage and growth capital investor in the digital media, e-commerce, software and mobile industries in Europe and North America, has appointed Simon Greenman as venture partner UK and John Helm as venture partner in Germany.  In addition, Jonathan Pell and Jaclyn Schnau join the industry advisory

Brian T Daly has joined Schulte Roth & Zabel as a partner in the firm’s investment management and regulatory and compliance groups. Resident in the firm’s New York office, Daly concentrates on advising hedge and private equity fund managers on regulatory, compliance and operational matters, including registration and disclosure obligations,

Palamon Capital Partners has appointed John David as managing director, investment strategy. David joins Palamon’s pan-European team, all based in London, to advance the firm’s thematic investment model which proactively identifies and partners high growth service businesses across Europe.   David joins Palamon from Allstate Investments where he spent seven

Business Growth Fund (BGF), established to help the UK’s fast growing smaller and medium sized businesses, has appointed John Swarbrick as its head of portfolio. He will be joining immediately to play a key role in overseeing BGF’s growing portfolio of high growth entrepreneurial businesses. Stephen Welton, chief executive of