Hy24, a private investment firm focused on the clean hydrogen sector, has appointed Guillaume Lesueur, former Head of EDF Pulse Ventures, as managing director to lead a new investment initiative focused on technology and equipment manufacturers.   Hy24, a joint venture established in 2021 by FiveT Hydrogen and Ardian, is committed the growth of a global hydrogen ecosystem by investing across the entire clean hydrogen value chain. Hy24’s first fund – Clean Hydrogen Infrastructure, or “Infra Fund” – is targeted at building out the hydrogen infrastructure market. The Infra Fund has raised €2 billion to date and has already made

AVP has appointed Elizabeth de Saint-Aignan as a new General Partner in New York and head of the firm’s €1.5 billion Late Growth Fund for North America. De Saint-Aignan brings more than 20 years of growth equity experience with a focus on the technology sector. De Saint-Aignan joins AVP from private investment firm Sun Capital Partners, Inc (Sun Capital), where she served as a managing director since 2020 and led the firm’s technology vertical with investments in platform companies Exadel and LoanLogics as well as numerous add-on acquisitions. Before Sun Capital, de Saint-Aignan was the founding partner of the growth

AXA IM Alts, a specialist in alternative investments with €185 billion of assets under management, has appointed Laurent Lavergne to the newly created role of Global Head of Sustainability, effective 1 October 2023.

G2 Venture Partners, a venture capital firm focused on investment in technology companies, has promoted Neel Mehta to partner. Metha joined the firm in August 2021 as an investor and helped drive G2’s investment in Locus Robotics.

HIG Capital, a global alternative investment firm with $56 billion of equity capital under management, has expanded its dedicated infrastructure team with the addition of John Bruen as a Managing Director in the company’s London office, effective 1 August.

Juniper Square has appointed Christine Egbert as General Manager, Fund Administration, the firm’s most senior executive responsible for scaling its fund administration offerings catering to the needs of private fund managers 

NextEnergy Capital, an investment manager focused on the global solar sector, has added three key strategic hires to its investor relations team to support global fundraising for its latest private funds – NextPower UK ESG and NextPower V ESG.

Ahn Seung-gu, the senior director for private equity at Korea Investment Corporation, is set to join Mubadala Investment Co, a sovereign investor based in the United Arab Emirates, according to a report by the Korea Economic Daily.