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Gridiron Capital, an investment firm focused on partnering with founders, entrepreneurs, and management teams, has appointed Tracy Streckenbach as an Operating Partner.As Gridiron’s newest Operating Partner, Streckenbach will be a resource to Gridiron Portfolio Company teams and to Gridiron’s Centres of Excellence. Her leadership, strategy, operations, supply chain and performance optimisation experience will add capabilities in evaluating new business opportunities and working with management teams to increase value in their companies.
Prior to joining Gridiron Capital, Streckenbach’s roles have included Partner, Investment Committee Member, Board Member, CEO, COO, and CMO across a diverse range of industries. She is widely recognized
RLG Capital & Trinity Private Equity Group has made a USD38 million investment in learning solutions company eLearning Brothers, enabling its simultaneous acquisition of industry innovators Trivantis and Edulence. Co-investors include HCAP Partners and Eagle Marsh Holdings with a senior debt facility provided by KeyBank N.A. This investment launches eLearning Brothers as a unique eLearning platform that combines high-quality courses and related content with Lectora, an industry-leading rapid authoring tool, CenarioVR, a cutting-edge virtual reality course builder, and KnowledgeLink, a nimble learning management system (LMS), creating a complete online ecosystem to better serve learning professionals.
“This investment combines the industry-leading courses
Middle market private equity firm Wynnchurch Capital has appointed Aron Beach as a Managing Director focused on operations, strategy and portfolio management.Prior to joining Wynnchurch, Beach served as the Chief Financial Officer for Advanced Lighting Technologies.
Chris O’Brien, Managing Partner at Wynnchurch, says: “We are excited to welcome Aron to the Wynnchurch team. Aron brings nearly 20 years of experience as a financial and strategic leader, and has overseen acquisitions and divestitures, restructurings, and financing for businesses ranging in size from USD70 million to USD350 million. He will help us continue our focus on value creation through active operational and
Nordic real estate investor NREP has secured a minority investment from Novo Holdings. NREP, which is controlled by its senior partners, will now be able to invest more into its own funds while accelerating ventures into technology, sustainability and understanding customers.
NREP has developed a series of innovative real estate products within co-living, student housing, care homes and modern logistics. Novo Holdings becomes a non-controlling minority shareholder by injecting capital into NREP, to accelerate the company’s further development of customer-centric, sustainable real estate concepts and support NREP’s ambition to improve the built environment and pioneer the industry.
”Novo Holdings is well-reputed
Fitz Gate Ventures has completed the fundraising for its second venture capital fund. Founded in July 2015 by Jim Cohen and Mark Poag, Fitz Gate Ventures invests a majority of its capital in startups from the Princeton University ecosystem, with a minority of its capital available to be invested more broadly. Fitz Gate has 15 current portfolio company investments (and one exit), and all of the startups that have gone out to raise additional capital following Fitz Gate’s investment have done so successfully at premiums from some of the best known venture capital firms in the world.
For Fund II, Fitz
Ashburton Investments, the Jersey-based asset management business of FirstRand Group, has signed an agreement with JTC to administer fund shareholder accounts following full regulatory approval. The partnership will see JTC provide fund administration and fund accounting services to Ashburton Investments investors. The agreement will provide clients in Ashburton’s Jersey domiciled funds and nominee service with an enhanced administration service, delivered through the latest advances in fund administration technology.
This follows a review of Ashburton Investments’ operating platform to better meet the needs of the group’s global client base.
JTC is one of the largest providers of fund, corporate and private wealth
When the US emerges from Covid-19, 70 per cent of American c-suite execs and small business owners plan to hire fewer employees to perform the same amount of work, while only 4 per cent plan to hire more people than before the pandemic.
According to a national survey of 3,500 Americans released today by Azurite Consulting for Peak Prosperity, more than a third (34 per cent) of US SMBs don’t believe they will survive if social distancing is to last until October.
The study also found that digital collaboration tools including video conferencing, team communication and collaboration software and the
In a recent white paper entitled Evolution in Asset Management, SEI pointed out that 70 per cent of US fund managers are currently looking to deploy advanced analytics in the front-office. The field of data science and machine learning-based data analysis is helping to transform how fund managers think about data to gain a competitive edge.
Two partners from global private markets investment manager Adams Street Partners – Alejandra Lesch and Alicia Pando – are to join panel discussions at the forthcoming Private Equity Wire LIVE online seminar, which is taking place from 2-4 June.
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