Accel Partners, a global venture capital and growth equity firm, has appointed Neeraj Bharadwaj as a managing director to help build its growth equity investing initiative in India. Bharadwaj (pictured) joins Accel from Apax Partners India, where he was managing director and country head. At Accel, he will be responsible

Apax Partners, one of the world’s largest private equity firms, has appointed Sandeep Naik and Shashank Singh as co-heads of the India office. Naik (pictured) and Singh both joined the firm in 2004 in the New York and London offices, respectively, and relocated to co-found the India office in 2006.

General Atlantic, a global growth equity firm, has promoted Adrianna Ma to managing director and Jing Hong to principal. Ma (pictured) is based in New York and leads GA’s global energy and resources sector. Hong is a senior professional in the firm’s Beijing office and focuses on investments in China.

Intersouth Partners, a venture capital firm that provides entrepreneurs with early stage capital, has named Katrin Burt and James Rosen as partners. Burt (pictured) has been an associate of the firm since 2007 as a member of the technology team. She joined Intersouth in 2004 as an analyst, working with

Global professional services firm Alvarez & Marsal has added nine senior professionals to its private equity performance improvement practice. The announcement follows the recent hiring of eight professionals focused on private equity services in its transaction advisory and tax practices. “Private equity firms continue to focus aggressively on enhancing the

DN Capital, a media and technology growth capital and early stage investor, has appointed Tom Bradley as a principal. Bradley has been active in the UK venture capital market for nine years and most recently was a partner with DFJ Esprit in London where he was a member of the

Covington & Burling has appointed Fred Knecht as a partner in its corporate practice, focusing on capital markets and securities regulatory matters. He will be resident in Covington’s New York office. Knecht has nearly 20 years of in-house experience at preeminent investment banks, most recently at Merrill Lynch, where he