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CDC has appointed Tony Morgan as its new Managing Director, Direct Equity. Morgan will lead a team over 100 impact investment professionals in CDC’s Direct Equity division and will report directly to Chief Executive Nick O’Donohoe.
Morgan has nearly 20 years’ experience as an equity investor. He has held senior roles at Permira, Alchemy Partners, CPPIB* and most recently, as a Managing Director of Onex. His investment experience brings huge value that will support CDC in its commitment to invest USD6 billion from 2018 – 2021 across Africa and Asia, as it works towards the UN Global Goals.
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PrimaryBid, an FCA-regulated online platform connecting publicly listed companies with everyday investors for discounted share issuances, thas closed a GBP7 million funding round, led by Pentech and Outward VC with participation from Hambro Perks and other new and existing investors.
The investment will enable the company to expand its sales and marketing efforts as well as accelerate IT product development.
Pentech invests in startups that are building category leading software and are capable of becoming global companies. With notable investments in other UK fintech companies, including Nutmeg (which recently closed a GBP45 million funding round led by Goldman Sachs),
MidOcean Partners, a premier New York-based alternative asset manager that specialises in private equity and alternative credit investments, has appointed Adrienne Dale as a portfolio manager for MidOcean Credit Partners collateralised loan obligation (CLO) strategies.
Dale will report to Jim Wiant, who oversees MidOcean’s existing CLO business, as the company looks to expand and scale the business further. With over USD4 billion in assets and nine existing CLO transactions, MidOcean’s CLO strategies are an integral aspect of the firm’s USD8-plus billion credit platform.
“Adrienne’s deep expertise and long tenure in the CLO business will be a valuable asset to
The Riverside Company, a global private equity firm focused on the smaller end of the middle market, has appointed Sean Ozbolt Managing Partner. Ozbolt will lead Riverside’s new initiative focused on value investing.
“We are thrilled to have Sean join our team of more than 300 Riversiders across the world,” says Riverside Co-CEO Stewart Kohl. “Sean’s depth of experience and reputation precede him, and we believe his strategic approach, cultural attributes and turnaround track record make him a perfect fit for the firm at this point in our development as well as the economic cycle.”
Ozbolt brings more than
Alternative investment firm EnTrust Global has appointed Matt Meissner as a Vice President focused on investment research in the firm’s private debt and real assets division.
Meissner, with more than 15 years’ experience in the aviation industry, joins EnTrust Global from Blue Moon Analytics, a cloud-based analytical platform he founded for aircraft lease pricing and maintenance forecasting. Prior to founding Blue Moon, Meissner served as a Vice President at CIT Aerospace, where he spearheaded the development of advanced financial models used to analyse investments throughout the commercial aircraft capital structure and was an integral part of structuring and managing a
Alternative investment firm Cerberus Capital Management has executed a Deed of Company Arrangement related to certain subsidiaries of Axsesstoday Limited (Axsesstoday), a provider of equipment finance solutions to small and medium businesses in Australia.
Upon closing of the transaction, Axsesstoday will operate as a privately held company, majority-owned by Cerberus.
“Axsesstoday is a recognised specialist lender for commercial equipment for businesses across Australia,” says Lee Millstein, President of Cerberus Global Investments. “We look forward to leveraging our industry expertise, operating experience, and financial resources to expand the Company’s platform. Together with the Axsesstoday team, we are confident we will
French private equity firm Activa Capital has appointed Amira Oueld-El Hachemi as Finance Department Analyst.
This appointment is in line with Activa Capital’s development strategy, which aims to strengthen its Finance Department.
Oueld-El Hachemi will manage the Activa Capital funds under the direction of Alexandre Chollet, Chief Finance Officer.
Oueld-El Hachemi is a graduate of SKEMA Business School. She joins Activa Capital after prior experience at Essling Capital and Weinberg Capital Partners.
Crédit Industriel et Commercial (CIC) has appointed Pierre Vinci as the new General Manager of its London Branch.
Vinci joins from ABN AMRO where he was the Head of Corporate and International Origination within the UK branch’s Asset Based Finance business line. Prior to that, he worked for GE Capital where he spent ten years executing high profile structured financings in the larger UK and European mid-market.
“I am delighted to be joining such a long-standing and prestigious institution as CIC London. We have the ambition to continue to grow the business in the London marketplace, in line with our
Asset management industry veteran Ole Rollag has launched Pueblo, a new venture which aims to simplify and improve the investor/manager engagement process, reducing the burden of speculative emails from unsolicited fund managers that arrive in investor’s inboxes every day.
Pueblo is a simple and free-to-use diary scheduling tool that allows professional investors to see which managers are visiting their area and request meetings, information or other follow-up activity. Pueblo aims to eliminate the need for professional investors and capital allocators to trawl through emails and inbound calls tfrom unknown and un-curated managers. Pueblo can also be used by investors to identify
CreativeCap Advisors, a global business advisory firm exclusively focused on asset managers, has ubveiled its second class, S’19, for the Global Emerging Manager Incubator.
The S’19 cohort includes: Navis Capital Partners’ Yield Fund, Tareo Capital Management and Pisano Capital.
“We are incredibly excited to announce our newest cohort, S’19. This round of Incubatees comes from a range of different countries illustrating our global commitment to funds worldwide,” says Tyra S Jeffries, Founder and CEO of CreativeCap Advisors. “Our program continues to be very competitive following our core mission of identifying and developing only the best-in-class emerging fund managers. Our class
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