Prashant Kumar, a managing director with KKR in India, is relocating to Singapore to head up the firm’s Southeast Asia private equity business, according to a report from Reuters, citing two people familiar with the matter. One of the Reuters sources revealed that Kumar, who has been with KKR in Mumbai since 2018, is due to move to Singapore to take up his new role in July. Kumar, an alumnus of The Wharton School and the Indian Institute of Technology, will work with Ashish Shastry, a partner who heads Southeast Asia and co-heads the firm’s Asia Pacific Private Equity business.

CoVenture Management, an alternative asset management firm focused on direct credit opportunities and credit-oriented investments in early and late-stage companies, has appointed Joe Iraci as chief compliance officer. And managing director.

Baker Botts, an international energy, technology and life sciences law firm, has appointed Clay Brett as a partner in the firm’s Corporate Department based in Houston. Brett was previously a partner at Houston-based energy investment firm Millennial Energy Partners.

Great Hill Partners, a private equity firm that invests in high-growth, disruptive companies, has appointed David Roberts as a managing director in the firm’s digital commerce team, top focus on nvestments across eCommerce, marketplaces, consumer products, services and adjacent enabling software verticals. Roberts joins Great Hill after 11 years at Advent International, where he focused on investments in growth businesses in the consumer sector. He co-led or was actively involved in investments across consumer products, digital and e-commerce, consumer technology, retail, restaurants, travel and hospitality, content and gaming.  Roberts is currently a Director of Sovos Brands, one of the fastest

GLP Capital Partners Europe, a global alternative asset manager focused on thematic investing across private equity and real assets, has appointed Ben Marks as chief financial officer with immediate effect.

Generation Investment Management, a sustainable investment manager founded in 2004, has appointed Chris Ragona, an industry veteran with 25 years of private equity and business building experience, as a partner focused on the firm’s long-term equity strategy. Ragona will join Long-term Equity’s global leadership team and remain based in North America, expanding Long-term Equity’s geographic footprint.   Long-term Equity is Generation’s private equity strategy that makes long-term investments in a small number of high quality businesses that the team believes can also be sustainability leaders in their industries. Long-term Equity targets platform companies with significant scale, strong growth and proven

Investment opportunities in the Middle East have prompted French private equity firm Ardian SAS to launch an initiative to almost double its headcount at its regional base in Abu Dhabi which opened earlier this year, according to a report by Bloomberg.

Connection Capital, a specialist private client alternative investment business with £480 million under management across a diverse portfolio, has appointed Michael Mowlem as chief investment officer (CIO) to head up its direct private equity and wider alternative investments offering. Mowlem has worked in the private equity industry for more than 25 years and was previously CEO/managing director of LGV Capital, the mid-market private equity investment arm of Legal & General Group plc. Other roles include head of private equity at Sandaire, a multi-family office wealth management business, and more recently as a direct equity consultant to Aviva Capital Partners, along

COMPLY, a provider of compliance software, consulting and education resources for the financial services sector and whose portfolio of firms includes ComplySci, RIA in a Box, National Regulatory Services (NRS) and illumis, has named Gayle Nixon as chief marketing officer.