ORIX Venture Finance (OVF), a leading provider of growth capital for growing technology companies nationwide, has appointed Ron Kundich, a seasoned technology and life science finance executive, as a principal in its Silicon Valley office.   Kundich will serve as a senior relationship manager for the western region, working closely

Global growth private equity firm TA Associates has appointed Dietrich Hauptmeier as a Senior Vice President in the firm’s London office. Hauptmeier will focus on growth equity investments, recapitalisations and management-led buyouts in Germany and other European markets. Hauptmeier joins TA from Palamon Capital Partners, where he served as an

David Silver is to succeed John Fordham as Head of European Investment Banking (EUIB) at Baird, an employee-owned, international investment banking, private equity, wealth, and asset management firm. Fordham will transition to the newly created position of Chairman of Baird International.   Silver will oversee all of EUIB in addition

Newly-launched, location-based mobile gaming start-up Red Robot Labs has raised USD8.5 million in funding led by Benchmark Capital. Benchmark’s Mitch Lasky will be joining the company’s board of directors.   Shasta Ventures and existing investors Rick Thompson, co-founder of Playdom, and Chamath Palihapitiya, former Facebook executive, also participated in the

Kelso Place Asset Management LLP (Kelso Place), the special situations investor, has appointed Philip Dougall as Partner. The appointment takes Kelso Place’s London-based investment team to nine. Sion Kearsey, Managing Partner of Kelso Place, says: “Phil has a wealth of experience and knowledge of the turnaround landscape, which will be

First State Investments has appointed Philippe Taillardat, who will co-head Infrastructure Investment Management Europe together with Danny Latham and work alongside Niall Mills (Head of Infrastructure Asset Management) and Marcus Ayre (Head of Infrastructure Transactions).   This latest senior addition to the team comes as First State plans to open

Split Rock Partners, a venture capital firm focused on software, Internet services, and healthcare has appointed Leo de Luna as a principal in its Menlo Park office.   De Luna will be identifying, evaluating and managing new later stage and secondary opportunities. He most recently served as a Vice President

International law firm Dechert LLP announced today that David A Vaughan has returned to the firm as a partner in the Financial Services Group. Vaughan left Dechert in March 2009 to join the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Investment Management, where he served for the last two years as