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Accelmed Partners (Accelmed), a private equity firm focused on acquiring and investing in US commercial stage, lower middle market HealthTech companies, has appointed Katherine Relle as Vice President.
Relle joins Accelmed from JP Morgan’s Private Equity Group, where she served as a Portfolio Manager and Vice President.
“Katherine is a seasoned and rising investment professional, who brings a tremendous amount of private equity investment experience to the firm and furthers our ability to source, identify and execute investments in HealthTech companies across the US,” says Dr Uri Geiger, Founder and Managing Partner of Accelmed.
Relle began her career
Unigrains, an agri-food and agro-industry specialised investor, has appointed Eric Thirouin as President and Maxime Vandoni as CEO.
Eric Thirouin is President of the AGPB (a professional organisation of grain growers) since 2019 and a Unigrains Board Member since 2018.
Vandoni is a seasoned executive with extensive experience in large consumer goods companies, at the helm of agri-food and cooperative groups, and in the world of renewable energies.
They respectively succeed Philippe Pinta and Jean-François Laurain, both warmly thanked by the Board of Directors for their decisive actions and their implication in the company’s success.
These appointments
Tilla Systems, a new start-up founded by company builder Flagship Founders, has developed a smart platform for the automated planning and execution of cargo ship crew changes.
The company has already secured Hamburg’s time-honoured shipping company Peter Döhle Schiffahrts-KG as one of their first customers. The platform’s official launch is scheduled for this year’s fourth quarter.
Some five million crew changes take place on cargo ships every year. Planning entails gathering data from multiple sources and coordinating multiple parties who need to be kept up-to-date at all times.
Circumstances can change without warning, due to new travel restrictions for example,
PSG, a growth equity firm partnering with middle-market software and technology-enabled services companies, has made a strategic investment in Sign In App, a provider of workplace risk management software solutions.
PSG Senior Advisor Jeff Gordon will join the Board of Directors as Executive Chairman. In this active role, he will help execute PSG’s strategy in visitor management and lead expansion in the U.S. for Sign In App’s operations. PSG’s Matt Stone, Managing Director, Namrita Rai, Vice President, and Katherine Nimmo, Senior Associate, will also join Sign In App’s Board of Directors. Financial terms were not disclosed.
“Through this new
Pictet Alternative Advisors (PAA), the alternative investment specialist of the Pictet Group, has held the final close of its debut thematic private equity fund focused on technology at its hard cap of USD350 million.
The Pictet Thematic Private Equity – Technology is a fund of funds exclusively dedicated to technology investments and innovation.
PAA’s expertise in building diversified portfolios, that include investments in tech companies of different maturity stages (from venture capital, growth and buyout) has allowed investors to gain exposure to several layers of the technology investment landscape with a mitigated risk approach.
The Pictet Thematic Private
Kartesia, the European specialist provider of capital solutions for small and mid-sized companies, is pleased to announce that it has provided a Unitranche financing facility to support Maguar Capital Partners’ and Oliver Krizek’s investment in Navax Consulting (Navax).
Founded by Krizek in 1995 and based in Vienna, Austria, NAVAX is a leading Software and IT Services Provider that supports customers across the DACH region in optimising and digitalising their processes through solutions from the Microsoft Dynamics software suite and individual software solutions, including HENRI, a proprietary software targeted at the Financial Services and leasing industries.
Maguar Capital Partners (Maguar), based
Inspirit Capital is to acquire Landmark Solutions, the managed geospatial data services division of Landmark Information Group Ltd, which is a subsidiary of DMGT Plc.
Headquartered in Exeter, UK, Landmark Solutions provides bespoke geospatial, data-focused cloud hosting projects, along with consultancy and support services to a range of public and private sector clients. The business has expanded its capabilities and augmented its offering over time through the development of innovative Software-as-a-Service and Data-as-a-Service solutions built from its expertise in leveraging rich geospatial datasets.
Underpinned by a highly specialised workforce possessing extensive knowledge of geospatial data, IT and address matching solutions,
Private investment firm GI Partners has acquired a controlling interest in LightEdge, a provider of colocation, cloud and managed service solutions.
GI Partners’ investment will support and accelerate the growth of LightEdge.
GI Partners has invested extensively in infrastructure companies and properties underpinning the digital economy for 20 years. The firm is acquiring LightEdge through its GI Data Infrastructure Fund which was launched last year and manages over USD1.8 billion of capital commitments.
“I am very proud of what we accomplished together with our owners, The Anschutz Corporation, over the years. We never took our eye off the
Specialist business advisory firm FRP has added to its debt advisory team in London with the appointment of Jo Power as a director.
Power has more than 15 years’ experience in corporate finance and lending across a wide range of sectors, with particular focus on healthcare, business services and technology. She joins FRP from a private US debt fund where she worked as a director, responsible for underwriting new UK and cross-border mid-market SME loans.
A qualified chartered accountant, Power began her career at BDO, before moving to the Royal Bank of Scotland’s leveraged finance team. There, she led the
Law firm Dentons has added to its Corporate and M&A practice in Spain with the appointment of Israel de Diego as a new partner in Madrid.
De Diego is a corporate lawyer who advises companies and private equity funds on mergers and acquisitions, both national and international, as well as capital markets transactions.
He is recognised among Spain’s leading Corporate and M&A lawyers by international legal directories such as Chambers Europe and IFLR1000. Before joining Dentons, he was a partner at Spanish law firm Araoz & Rueda, and prior to that, he was an M&A and Capital Markets partner
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