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Goldman Sachs veteran Sheila Patel has joined the board of Antler, as the global early-stage venture capital firm continues its international expansion.
With three decades of experience in financial asset management, Patel has become a global leader in the asset management industry.
Previously, Patel was chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management based in London, and a member of the bank’s Firmwide Management Committee, holding leadership roles in two divisions across three continents. Before Goldman Sachs, Patel headed up Trading Strategy at Morgan Stanley for seven years. As the current Vice Chairman of B Capital Group, the venture capital firm
It’s a golden age for private equity firms, amid soaring valuations and a frenzy of takeover deals over the past year.
That same pace of growth and success is also acting as a powerful agent of change for the industry in how it views and uses technology.
For Rich Itri, SVP, Professional Service, at ECI, a provider of managed IT services, cybersecurity and business transformation solutions, it’s a trend that is long overdue.
While other areas of financial services have eagerly adopted new systems to keep pace with their competitors, private equity firms have traditionally taken a different approach.
“It’s
By Robin Pagnamenta – They are used to big deals, quick turnarounds – and bumper pay days. But private equity executives have, in the past, sometimes been slower to embrace something else: cutting edge technology which rules the roost in many other areas of the financial services industry.
Crestbridge, a provider of private equity and real estate administration solutions, has appointed Siân Dalrymple as Group Chief Risk Officer.
Dalrymple will be responsible for the oversight and enhancement of Crestbridge’s risk function and the development of its risk management services platform for its global client base.
Dalrymple brings to the role vast experience and a proven track record in leading the compliance and risk functions for large, multi-national and stock-exchange listed organisations globally.
Prior to joining Crestbridge, Dalrymple was Executive Vice President, Group Head of Compliance and Group MLRO, and a member of the Executive Committee
mParticle, a customer data infrastructure company, has raised USD150 million in Series E funding, led by Permira’s growth fund which backs leading tech-enabled and digital businesses.
The existing investor base also participated in the round alongside new backers including former Adobe CFO Mark Garrett and New England Patriots All-Pro punter Jake Bailey. The funding will support mParticle’s continued global go-to-market expansion, as well as significant R&D investment as demand for customer data infrastructure continues to accelerate. With the round, Daniel Brenhouse, Principal at Permira, will join the mParticle Board of Directors.
Creating truly adaptive, privacy-friendly digital experiences is becoming
Onecom, a business communications technology and cloud communications specialist, has acquired IP Office Ltd in its third acquisition in 2021.
The transaction brings IP Office’s Exeter-based team and in excess of 700 customers into the Onecom Group family.
The new partnership comes after Hampshire-based Onecom’s acquisition of Olive Communications earlier this year, which created the UK’s largest business-to-business mobile, connectivity and cloud specialist in the UK, in a deal that was closely followed by the addition of thousands of customers and hundreds of channel partners with the subsequent acquisition of 9 Group.
Martin Flick, Onecom Group CEO, says: “As we
Recruitment group HCRG (Health Care Resourcing Group) has sold its homecare provider businesses CRG Homecare and Allied Healthcare.
Browne Jacobson’s corporate finance team have advised on the sale of tech services provider, Centiq to international based SoftwareONE group.
The latest Enterprise Software M&A report from Hampleton Partners, the international technology mergers and acquisitions advisor, reveals that with 751 deals signed and a record USD124 billion in transaction value achieved in the first six months of 2021, the sector is riding a ‘post-pandemic’ wave of activity.
During the height of the covid-driven boom in Enterprise Software M&A during H2 2020, a record 836 deals and USD112 billion in valuations were recorded, as companies quickly set their teams up for dedicated remote-working.
As new, post-covid habits have settled, M&A activity In the Enterprise Software sector has demonstrated strong growth
Licensed textile product provider Character World has secured a GBP14.5 million refinance package from Secure Trust Bank Commercial Finance, as it plans for growth in 2022.
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