Ambit Capital has appointed Saurabh Mukherjea as head of equities at the managing director level, strengthening its institutional equities business. Mukherjea will join Ambit after completing his gardening leave, which he is currently serving. The equity business will now be headed by Mukherjea, leaving Andrew Holland to continue to focus

Martin Graham, formerly director of markets and head of AIM at the London Stock Exchange, has joined the board of Secondcap as chairman. Secondcap is the developer of the first web based platform designed to automate the end-to-end transaction process for the secondary private funds market, including private equity, real

The Institutional Limited Partners Association has appointed Timothy Recker of the University of California Regents as chairman. Recker is responsible for the University of California Regents private equity programme with over USD5bn in assets under management. Prior to joining the UC in 2007, Recker was director of alternative investments for

Fountain Partners has appointed John Van Hooser as managing partner. Van Hooser joins Fountain Partners founder Tom Carter in managing its third fund, Fountain Leasing 2010, which is dedicated to equipment leasing needs of venture, growth and expansion stage companies. Van Hooser brings over 15 years of venture capital and

Sovereign Capital-backed LM Funerals, one of the UK’s largest independent funeral services companies, has appointed Deborah Kemp as its new chief executive.  Kemp was previously chief operating officer of De Vere Hotels & Resorts, where she held executive responsibility for all aspects of financial and operational delivery across the company’s

Investment firm Vision Capital has appointed Samer Cortas as principal.  Cortas has over 12 years’ experience in leveraged finance.  Cortas previously worked in the debt advisory and financial restructuring group of Houlihan Lokey in London.  Prior to this, Cortas was an executive director and founding member of the debt advisory

General Atlantic, a growth equity firm, has named Hans Morris, former president of Visa and a special adviser for GA over the last year, as managing director and head of GA’s global financial services sector. William E. Ford, chief executive officer of General Atlantic, says: “We know Hans well and

Jan Amethier has been appointed head of corporate finance at Handelsbanken Capital Markets. Jan Amethier has been appointed head of corporate finance at Handelsbanken Capital Markets. Amethier has spent 12 years at JP Morgan in London where his positions have included head of Nordic investment banking. He was also co-head