Ashley Highfield (pictured), Microsoft’s UK Managing Director & VP for Consumer and Online, has been appointed to GMT Communiation Partners’ Industry Council – a network of key technology, media and telecoms industry experts Highfield is responsible for Microsoft’s UK consumer services across PC, mobile and internet platforms including Windows, Windows

Global alternative asset manager The Carlyle Group has established a team to conduct buyout and growth capital investments in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The team is co-headed by Managing Directors Marlon Chigwende, former Managing Director & Head of Private Equity Africa for Standard Chartered Bank, and Danie Jordaan, former Executive Committee

Angelo, Gordon & Co has appointed Mark Visser as a Managing Director with responsibility for leading the firm’s healthcare investment activities. He will be based in New York. Prior to joining Angelo Gordon, Visser, who will be based in New York, was a Partner at Behrman Capital, where he led

The Emerging Markets Private Equity Association (EMPEA) has announced the election of H Jeffrey Leonard, President, CEO and Founding Partner of the Global Environment Fund (GEF), as the next Chairman of the association. Leonard was unanimously elected by the EMPEA Board to a two-year term commencing in May 2011.  

Hamilton Lane, an independent financial institution that provides discretionary and non-discretionary private equity asset management services to sophisticated investors, is expanding its offering in the real estate sector, with the addition of Jerome W. Gates as Managing Director to lead the product area. Gates joins the firm with over 20

Ipes Luxembourg has appointed Christophe Ponticello as Client Director and Head of Accounting. Ponticello, whose appointment is in response to exceptionally high demand for the firm’s service offering in Luxembourg, will play a key role in managing client relationships. He will also work closely with Simon Henin, MD for Ipes Luxembourg,

Silicon Valley Bank, a financial partner to venture capital, technology and life science companies of all sizes worldwide, has hired former venture capitalist and entrepreneur John Hoesley to run its Venture Capital and Private Equity Services Group in the Midwest.   Based in Silicon Valley Bank’s Chicago office, Hoesley will

Monroe Capital LLC, a private investment firm focused on investments in middle-market and lower middle-market companies, has appointed Warren Woo as a Partner and Managing Director of its recently closed GBP250 million investment fund, Monroe Capital Partners Fund LP. Woo will lead the Los Angeles office for Monroe Capital and

Burrill & Company has appointed Dr Dirk Lammerts as Managing Director, Digital Health. Lammerts has more than 20 years of professional experience in the healthcare, life sciences, and high-tech industries.   Prior to joining Burrill & Company he worked as Vice President Marketing and Corporate Development at XDx, an innovative