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Navigant has appointed Dr Scott Ransom to lead its Strategic Solutions team as Managing Director.
Ransom will also lead the Navigant Physician Leadership Group, focused on physician executive integration and alignment. With more than 25 years of strategy, operations, and physician leadership experience, Ransom will assist Navigant clients to meet the challenge of shifting strategic focus in the changing healthcare environment.
Ransom has consulted with hospitals, health systems, academic medical centres, physician groups, private equity firms, and universities on issues related to strategy development, organisational transformation, restructuring, medical education, clinical and research operations, mergers and acquisitions, academic affiliations, and
- 04/03/2016
Lumira Capital, a North American health care venture capital firm, has appointed Richard Glickman, Frank Stonebanks and Brian Underdown as Venture Partners at the firm.
These industry veterans will support Lumira Capital's investment and corporate partnering initiatives and expand the firm's presence in leading centers for life sciences innovation in Canada and the US from offices in Vancouver and San Diego.
Peter van der Velden, Managing General Partner of Lumira Capital, says: "We are excited to deepen our decades-long relationships with Richard and Frank while continuing our relationship with Brian. Our team and our portfolio companies look forward to
- 04/03/2016
- 04/03/2016
Lucro, an enterprise founded by Martin Ventures, has secured funding from additional healthcare industry investors including Health Insight Capital, a subsidiary of HCA that invests in early stage companies, and Heritage Group, an investment team backed by the United States’ leading healthcare companies.
Lucro’s platform is designed to re-invent how health systems interact with, evaluate and purchase healthcare technologies, products and services. The Lucro Marketplace supports healthcare leaders in making strategic purchasing decisions, allowing them to discover and compare solutions and privately collaborate with their peers on decision-making. Vendors gain increased visibility and strategic market insights through engagement with healthcare
- 04/03/2016
A launch event to mark the opening of Guernsey’s representative office in Hong Kong attracted nearly 200 attendees.
Hosted on Wednesday 2 March at the China Club in Central, the event outlined the services offered by Guernsey’s international finance centre and featured a panel discussion on the current economic climate and keynote speeches from the Lord Flight, a member of the House of Lords, and Deputy Lyndon Trott, Chairman of Guernsey Finance and former Chief Minister of Guernsey.
Kate Clouston, Guernsey Finance’s Director of International Business Development, welcomed the audience by sharing some anecdotes from the week's activities surrounding
- 04/03/2016
Maples Fiduciary, a division of MaplesFS and a provider of specialised fiduciary and corporate administration services, has opened an office in Hong Kong, completing the Maples group’s offering in the region.
"With the use of Hong Kong companies in the types of structures that typically rely on the Maples group for various services, the launch of our Hong Kong office is a natural extension of our offering across multiple jurisdictions," says Hugh Thompson, Global Head of Fiduciary at Maples Fiduciary. "We are continually assessing and reshaping our business to address changing market demands and look forward to providing existing and
- 04/03/2016
- 04/03/2016
NorthEdge Capital (NorthEdge), the UK lower middle market private equity firm focused on the North of England, has closed its second fund, NorthEdge Capital Fund II at its hard cap of GBP300 million, raised in four months.
This brings total funds under management to over half a billion pounds raised in the last four years.
Fund II, which was fully allocated at launch, received overwhelming support from both existing and new institutional investors. Funds were raised from 18 international blue-chip investors including four new investors representing world class asset managers, foundations, fund of funds, insurance companies, private and
- 04/03/2016
Kensington Capital Partners has held the final closing of the Kensington Venture Fund after its exceeded its target of USD300 million in investor commitments.
The Fund, which raised a total of USD306 million, received its most recent commitments from a mix of wealth managers, private foundations, and individual investors.
"This is a great time to be investing in technology in Canada," says Rick Nathan, Managing Director of Kensington Capital Partners. "Our significant talent pool, vibrant startup environment, and improved access to capital – through the Kensington Venture Fund and other funding sources – make Canada a great place to
- 04/03/2016
goTenna – the device that enables smartphone users to communicate without cell towers, wifi routers or even satellites – has secured a USD7.5 million Series A funding round ed by Walden Venture Capital, joined by MentorTech Ventures, BBG Ventures (a subsidiary of Verizon), and Bloomberg Beta.
The round also includes Wareness.io, a strategic fund focused on hardware; Kenneth Horowitz, a founder of Cellular One (acquired by AT&T) and pioneer in the cellular industry; and Howard Finkelstein, who ran data and telecommunications businesses for John Kluge’s Metromedia Company. With the new financing, goTenna intends to grow its team and product pipeline,
- 03/03/2016
- 03/03/2016
Tikehau IM’s Novo 2 fund has finalised its participation in a new seven-year bond issuance for the Prodware Group. The fund is underwriting EUR25 million of the EUR50 million total issue.
Founded in 1989 by Philippe Bouaziz, Prodware Group is an international vendor and integrator of industry-specific and role-tailored IT solutions and applications. It is listed on the Alternext market. The Group has progressively developed its own solutions and currently delivers more than 23 industry-specific and 12 business software solutions to a wide range of industries.
By June 30th 2015, Prodware Group had generated, EUR175.3 million in revenues and
- 03/03/2016
United Overseas Bank Limited (UOB) has partnered with global equity crowdfunding platform, OurCrowd, allowing the accredited investors among UOB’s clients to broaden their investments into OurCrowd;s portfolio companies.
The collaboration will see UOB making a USD10 million investment in OurCrowd.
Through this collaboration, Asian companies with differentiated and highly scalable technology products and services will now get access to another source of funding through OurCrowd’s equity crowdfunding platform. Through equity crowdfunding, they can seek relatively small investments from a large number of investors in return for equity or shares in their startup company. It provides them with the funding
- 03/03/2016
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