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Silverfleet Capital portfolio company Sigma Components has appointed Mark Rollins and Ed Riley as non-executive chairman and chief financial officer respectively.
Based in Hinckley, Leicestershire, Sigma is a precision engineering components manufacturer for the commercial aerospace sector.
The new appointments complete Sigma’s board of directors, which has been strengthened since Silverfleet’s acquisition to support the company’s growth plans.
Rollins has an extensive career in the manufacturing and aerospace sectors. He is a former CEO and financial director of Senior Plc, the engineering and manufacturing group, where he played an instrumental role in transforming the business.
Riley also brings
Newcastle upon Tyne-based NVM Private Equity has led a fundraising round for London based Channel Mum, an online multi-channel video blog community network for parents.
NVM has invested GBP2 million to support and work with Channel Mum to accelerate and grow the company over the next few years.
Building on Channel Mum’s skillset the growth strategy is focused on expanding the core product offering and growing the ‘Millennial’ audience.
Channel Mum was founded in 2015 by ‘mumpreneur’ Siobhan Freegard OBE who in 2000 also co-founded the UK’s biggest parenting website Netmums – aimed at millennial mums and parents-to-be.
Italmatch Chemicals, a chemical group specialising in the production and marketing of performance additives, has acquired Solvay’s Ionquest 290 and Octyl Phosphonic Acid product range.
They are active in the production and marketing of phosphorus-based process additives for the mining, metalworking fluids, corrosion inhibition and pigmentation industries.
The acquisition involves the Ionquest 290 and OPA-Rhodafac ASI product ranges, their respective patents, the know-how and the client portfolio of Solvay, a global chemical and advanced materials company based in Belgium.
The transaction falls into Italmatch Chemical’s growth strategy and follows the recent acquisition of Compass Chemical International, a North
Align Capital Partners has held the first and final close of its inaugural private equity investment fund, Align Capital Partners Fund I, and Align Capital Partners Fund I-A (collectively ACP I).
Align began fundraising in June 2016 with an initial target of USD250 million and closed at its hard cap of USD325 million.
“We are grateful for the tremendous demand for ACP I from an impressive investor base and appreciative of their support in the successful launch of Align Capital Partners,” says the firm’s co-founder Steve Dyke. “Our highly experienced team and focused investment strategy attracted a diverse group
There were 229 new listings on the Channel Islands Securities Exchange (CISE) during the first half of 2016, an increase of 13 per cent on the same period last year.
It takes the number of listed securities on the Official List to 2,222 at the end of June 2016.
Fiona Le Poidevin (pictured), CEO of the CISE, says: “I’m delighted that once again we have seen significant growth in new listings.
“It is very noticeable that we are seeing increased diversification in the geographical origin of our business. An increasing proportion of new work is coming from further
In the first of a five-part series, SEI discusses the impact of five disruptive technologies and how they can be applied to the financial industry. The first of these five trends relates to IBM Watson, and the power of cognitive computing.
Cognitive computing and machine learning capabilities are becoming so great that even Elon Musk has raised concerns.
Speaking recently at Recode’s Code Conference, he said: “I don’t know a lot of people who love the idea of living under a despot,” the inference being that self-awareness super-computers could become a malign force; think creepy-voiced HAL9000 in the seminal movie,
Artivest, a tech-driven investment platform providing access to alternative investments, has appointed Jon Feigelson as general counsel and chief compliance officer.
Feigelson joins from TIAA, where he most recently served as senior managing director, general counsel, head of regulatory affairs, and director of corporate governance.
At Artivest, Feigelson will be responsible for providing strategic, regulatory, and transactional legal counsel across the firm's alternative investment offerings.
Feigelson brings over 20 years of legal, compliance, and governance experience in the financial services industry to Artivest. Prior to TIAA, Feigelson served as managing director and general counsel for ABN AMBRO Bank's
Smart Communications has completed its spinoff from Thunderhead and has launched as an independent company led by its existing management team and backed by Accel-KKR, a technology-focused private equity firm.
As an independent company, Smart Communications will continue to define and lead the next generation of cloud-enabled customer communications management (CCM) by focusing on scaling its growth in new and existing markets, broadening its industry reach, and accelerating innovation and product development.
Smart Communications’ blue-chip customer base spans three continents and includes over 300 customers from a diverse range of industry sectors, including banking, insurance, healthcare, telecoms and retail,
The Thomson Reuters Private Equity Buyout Index (TRPEI) and the Thomson Reuters Venture Capital Index (TRVCI) returned 0.25 per cent and 1.87 per cent in August, respectively.
This brings their year-to-date performance to +5.43 per cent and +0.94 per cent.
The Thomson Reuters PE Buyout and VC indices each seek to track the aggregate gross performance of its respective industry in the US.
They are the first indices to allow liquid access to the gross performance of the private equity and venture capital industries through index-linked investment products.
Both the Thomson Reuters PE Buyout Index (TRPEI) and the Thomson Reuters VC Index (TRVCI) are
Norsk Titanium has secured an investment from Silicon Valley-based Applied Ventures, the venture capital arm of Applied Materials, a specialist in materials engineering solutions used to produce chips and advanced displays.
Terms of the investment have not been released.
“Applied Ventures’ equity investment positions Norsk Titanium and our disruptive Rapid Plasma Deposition capability into the core of the Silicon Valley additive manufacturing revolution,” says Norsk Titanium chairman of the board John Andersen, Jr. “Applied’s extensive capabilities in materials engineering and process management complement our unique titanium capabilities as well as our global expansion into new metal alloys and markets
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