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McKesson Ventures, the venture capital arm of McKesson Corporation, has appointed Carrie Hurwitz Williams as Principal, and Irem Mertol as Director.
Williams will play a key role in promoting McKesson Ventures as a strategic investment partner for innovative companies focused on retail transformation, consumerism and channel development. Mertol will be responsible for sourcing potential investments, developing investment theses and supporting portfolio management.
“We are pleased to welcome both Carrie and Irem to the McKesson Ventures team,” says Tom Rodgers, Senior Vice President and Managing Director at McKesson Ventures. “Carrie’s lengthy experience throughout the healthcare ecosystem provides us with a diverse
Bruce MacKenzie will be joining UBS as a Managing Director in EMEA LCM. MacKenzie is a high yield capital markets professional who was previously European Head of Leveraged Capital Markets at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in London, and prior to that spent 10 years at Deutsche Bank.
MacKenzie is very well regarded by a number of our private equity and corporate clients as well as key high yield investors.
At UBS, MacKenzie will sit alongside Abudy Taha and report directly to me. Abudy and Bruce will focus on both loans and high yield bonds, capitalising on their respective
Alternative investment accounting and advisory firm, Arthur Bell, has appointed Audit Director, Rob Kucenski, to its New York office.
Kucenski (pictured), has more than 15 years of experience providing professional services to alternative investment vehicles for a diverse client base which includes hedge funds, private equity, real estate, commodity pools, and funds of funds.
Kucenski is an industry veteran who has more than a decade of audit experience with a Big 4 accounting firm, and another accounting firm focused on the alternative investment industry. He works closely with investment advisers on evaluating their internal controls, along with their business
Sumeru Equity Partners (SEP) has led a USD45 million (USD) equity financing round in Kyriba, a provider of cloud treasury and financial management solutions, alongside existing investors Bpifrance, Iris Capital, Daher Capital and HSBC.
“SEP’s expertise in fast-growth SaaS solution providers, and their impressive track record for investing in successful technology market leaders, makes them the perfect strategic partner for Kyriba,” says Jean-Luc Robert, Chairman and CEO of Kyriba. “We are seeing strong global demand for modernizing treasury and financial operations, and are thrilled to receive the support of SEP and our existing strategic partners to help accelerate our growth.”
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Sapphire Ventures, a venture capital firm with USD2.4 billion under management, has hired Stefanie Gordish as vice president of marketing.
Gordish will lead the firm’s marketing strategy, including brand, communications, events, messaging and thought leadership.
Gordish brings extensive marketing communications experience to Sapphire. Most recently, she led communications at Marketo, a marketing technology provider, where she saw the company through its take-private transaction and a corporate repositioning from a marketing automation application to an engagement platform. Prior to Marketo, Gordish spent more than a decade at global PR agencies Weber Shandwick and Edelman, where she led corporate communications programs
At an official launch event in London last week, law firm Simmons & Simmons announced the start-up businesses that are to become the second cohort of recipients of support through the Simmons & Simmons FinTech Fund.
The Simmons & Simmons FinTech Fund launched in May 2016 and is the first fund of its kind designed to help early stage FinTech businesses solve some of the difficult legal hurdles they often encounter at earlier stages of their businesses. For the second year running the firm has set aside GBP100,000 to help four exciting FinTech start-ups solve those problems through the provision
Although sentiment about the economic outlook for the UK in the short term (next 18-24 months) is negative (54 per cent), reflecting Brexit uncertainty and slowing growth, there is a much more positive view (48 per cent) when it comes to the outlook for the next five to ten years.
That’s according to a new ‘State of the Nation’ survey of mid-market management teams, private equity investors, debt providers and advisors in the UK, by management consultancy CIL.
Over half of respondents (51 per cent) also felt positive about the investment environment for their business or portfolio, with a
Analytics 4 Life, a digital health company applying the power of artificial intelligence to develop solutions that improve existing care pathways, today announced it has completed a USD25 million Series B financing.
This unique financing event was supported by an international syndicate of accredited investors, including physicians, healthcare professionals, and medical device experts. The Company’s novel cardiac imaging technology is under clinical investigation to help physicians assess the presence of coronary artery disease (CAD) using intrinsic signals scanned from the body without radiation, contrast agents, or cardiac stress.
“Heart disease is the leading cause of death globally, with one
Private equity firm Sentinel Capital Partners has sold WellSpring Consumer Healthcare, a North American marketer of leading consumer health brands. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
WellSpring Consumer Healthcare manages a portfolio of high-performing consumer healthcare brands, including Emetrol, Bonine, Bactine, GlaxalBase, and FDS. These brands occupy the #1 or #2 positions in their respective segments and benefit from a long-standing heritage, high awareness among consumers, and an entrenched retail presence. WellSpring Consumer Healthcare possesses an in-house acquisition capability coupled with a highly efficient and scalable operating model which has proven its ability to identify and integrate new
BGF has agreed to exit its minority stake in aircraft seat manufacturer, Acro Aircraft Seating. The company will, subject to the satisfaction of certain conditions including regulatory approval, be acquired by Zhejiang Science and Technology Investment Company (ZTC) for GBP55 million.
The acquisition will accelerate Acro’s access to the Chinese market. ZTC is the parent company of Zhejiang Tiancheng Controls Co., a manufacturer of seats for construction vehicles, trucks and cars listed in Shanghai.
BGF invested GBP7.8 million into Acro in November 2015 and, as a minority partner, has backed the company’s management team since then.
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