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Slate Asset Management (Slate), a global alternative investment platform focused on real assets, has appointed Jeff Rodgers as Managing Director, North American Infrastructure.
Rodgers will oversee origination and asset management for Slate’s infrastructure platform in North America, supporting the build out of Slate’s Cities and Communities Impact Infrastructure Strategy in Canada and the US.
Rodgers is an infrastructure specialist with over 16 years of experience, including 11 leading principal investments. Prior to joining Slate, he was a Managing Director at DIF Capital Partners (DIF) and a key member of the senior leadership team that led the successful build-out of DIF’s
Prytek, a multinational technology group with a focus on building and investing in technologies and delivering managed services, has appointed Noga Knaz as the CEO of Prytek Ventures to provide the firm’s corporate venture capital (CVC) arm with a harper focus on early-stage fintech startups.
As part of her role, Knaz will be responsible for Prytek’s investment activities in early-stage companies that work with or contribute to the technology and services sectors of mature companies in the Group. Prytek’s venture capital assets are currently worth over $100 million, which among other things, are developing technologies for the services divisions of
MS Lending Group, a bridging lending firm, has secured an initial £50 million senior-secured facility with Pollen Street Capital.
Pollen Street is a fast growing and purpose led alternative investment asset manager, investing in credit and private equity strategies focusing on the real estate, financial and business services sectors.
MS Lending Group have financed over £55m since it began trading in January 2021, with over half of that amount lent in the first half of 2022.
Palm Beach Capital Fund V (PBC), through one of its investment entities, has made an investment in Earth Systems, an environmental engineering and consulting firm based in South Florida. Financial terms of the private transaction have not been disclosed.
Earth Systems services clients in various end markets including oil and gas, governments and municipalities, utilities and property development. Service lines include assessment and remediation, spill response, environmental compliance and risk management. Founded in 1999, the Florida based company has grown its national presence over the last 23 years and now services seven states through 13 offices.
Regulations for new contaminants of
OpenGate Capital, a global private equity firm, is in exclusive negotiations with the Spanish firm MCH and Fernando Busto, founder and CEO of Extol, to acquire Extol.
The acquisition is part of a wider plan to create a European group focused on the aluminium extrusion market including another company, Aluminium France Extrusion. Together, the business will be named Aluminium Solutions Group (ASG). Financial term of the deal, which is expected to close later this year, have not been disclosed.
ASG will consist of four plants, three in France (Nantes, Saint-Florentin and Ham) and one in Spain (Toledo) and combined, the
One Rock Capital Partners (One Rock) has added Phil Gaudreau to its team of operating partners. Working in tandem with existing operating partners Sally Cunningham, Susan Fiesta, and Andrea Greene, Gaudreau will be responsible for driving post-acquisition value at the value-oriented, operationally focused private equity firm, through strategic financial, accounting and HR solutions at One Rock’s portfolio companies.
Gaudreau joins One Rock with over 20 years of experience in controllership and financial accounting. He previously served as Vice President and Controller at Armstrong Flooring, Inc, a leading multinational producer of resilient flooring products, where he led all accounting, financial reporting and
The Binding Site, a specialist in protein diagnostics and a portfolio company of Nordic Capital, has appointed Mark Stevenson as its new non-executive Chairperson.
As the former Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc, Stevenson will be able to draw on his extensive experience within the diagnostics and life science tools industries to support The Binding Site’s continued growth and expansion.
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc, is a Fortune 100 company with over $40 billion in sales and a world leader in serving science through its life science solutions, analytical instruments, specialty diagnostics and laboratory
GTCR has appointed Jodi Rubenstein as the private equity firm’s new managing director, investor relations. Rubenstein comes to GTCR with more than 15 years of experience in investment management with a focus on private equity and other alternative investments.
In leading the firm’s Investor Relations function from GTCR’s Chicago offices, Rubenstein will be responsible for coordinating all of the firm’s investor relations and fundraising activities, while also serving as a senior leader contributing to the firm’s growth plan and strategy.
Rubenstein joins the firm from Goldman Sachs, where she most recently served as managing director and head of midwest private
Apart from being the top European market, the UK is also among the top five markets for global venture capital (VC) funding activity, found GlobalData. According to the data and analytics company, a total of 1,083 VC funding deals were announced in the UK during January-July 2022 while the disclosed funding value of these deals stood at $18 billion.
An analysis of GlobalData’s Financial Deals Database reveals that VC funding activity in 2022 so far has showcased a fluctuating trend in the UK with July reversing the growth trend witnessed during the previous month. The UK witnessed a 32.7% decrease
Dryad, a provider of solar-powered environmental sensor networks for ultra-early wildfire detection and forest monitoring, has closed a €10.5 million Series A funding round, led by eCAPITAL. Additional investors include Toba Capital, Semtech and Marc Benioff’s TIME Ventures.
The funding will enable the company to scale its team, accelerate its go-to-market strategy, and deliver on its mission to fight climate change and protect forests around the world.
Dryad has spent more than two years developing its end-to-end Silvanet ultra-early wildfire detection and forest monitoring system, which incorporates low-cost sensors, solar-powered LoRa® based mesh networking infrastructure and a cloud
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