KKR has appointed Hidekazu Harada as a Managing Director in the firm’s Private Equity team based in Tokyo, effective immediately.Harada brings over 20 years of investment banking experience to KKR. He joins from Bank of America Merrill Lynch where he worked for 16 years and was most recently a Board member and Co-Head of Japan Investment Banking. At Bank of America Merrill Lynch he was primarily responsible for financial sponsors, TMT, mergers & acquisitions, management buyouts, and leveraged finance. Prior to his time at the bank, he spent four years at Daiwa Securities SMBC’s Tokyo and London offices where he

 Investor services group IQ-EQ has appointed Sukanya Lal as a Business Director in its Singapore team, with a primary focus on developing the group’s network and business opportunities in India.With almost 19 years’ experience in the finance industry, Lal has developed a successful career in business development and sales spanning multiple financial service sectors, including fund services, custody services, asset management and insurance. Before joining IQ-EQ in Singapore, Lal had held a series of senior business development roles spanning Mumbai and Delhi. Most recently, she was Associate Director of Business Development, Marketing and Sales for a leading global provider of

Bondstone, a Portuguese private equity real estate investment and asset management firm, has hired António Dias as its chief financial officer. Dias brings more than a decade of experience in corporate finance, M&A and private equity as well as programmatic portfolio management and will support Bondstone’s ambitious investment plans.   Dias joins Bondstone, which launched in February, from MarginKey, a Portugal-based consulting firm focused on small and medium-sized enterprises, in which he was founding partner and CEO. He is passionate about entrepreneurship and the private equity industry, having previously served at a leading Portuguese private equity firm, Oxy Capital. Dias obtained a degree in law from