EY has made two additions to the EY Global Private Equity leadership team – Konstanze Nardi has been appointed as the EY Global Private Equity Exit Readiness Leader and Will Rhode as EY Global Private Equity ESG Leader.  The two senior appointments follow an investment of around $1 billion phased over four years to expand private equity (PE) capabilities in the areas of value creation and portfolio transformation; deal leadership; and environmental, social and governance (ESG) services. Based in London, Nardi takes up her role with immediate effect. During her 20-year career at EY, she has worked in the US,

LongRange Capital, a middle market private equity firm, has appointed Andrew Cialino as principal, head of business development. In this role, he will oversee deal origination and sourcing activities at the firm. Cialino is joining the LongRange team from SFW Capital Partners, where he was principal and head of business development. While at SFW, he helped the firm build its business development engine and source several platform and add-on investments.  Prior to SFW, he was the head of sales at Axial Networks, where he worked with hundreds of middle market private equity firms on their business development strategies and developed

JP Morgan has appointed Alex Bell as a partner on the sustainable investment team within the JP Morgan Private Capital group. Bell, who joins from Tikehau Capital, has nearly two decades of private equity experience.  Bell spent about a year at Tikehau as head of the firm’s North American private equity climate practice, and prior to that more than four years at Caisse de Dépôt et Placement du Québec, where he helped start a CAD500 million platform that invests in late-stage venture and early-growth private equity opportunities in energy transition, sustainable food and agriculture and industrial decarbonisation. JP Morgan established

Riverwood Capital, an private investor that manages $5.6 billion and makes investments in high-growth technology businesses globally, has promoted three long-tenured executives – Joe De Pinho, Alex Porto, and Ramesh Venugopal – to partner.

Argand Partners, a New York- and San Francisco Bay Area-based private equity firm, has made a senior addition to its investment team with the appointment of Eric Korsten as Managing Director. Gerald Lizzo has also joined the firm as an Associate.

Actis, a UK-based private investment firm focused on sustainable infrastructure, has appointed Neda Vakilian as head of its Investor Solutions Group (ISG), which was previously known as the Investor Development Group. Vakilian is based in London and will be responsible for leading Actis’ capital raising initiatives and strategic investor programs. She will assume the role from Neil Brown, who is stepping back within Actis to focus on working directly with investors.  During her near 20-year career, Vakilian has worked across private capital markets, business development, and fundraising. Before joining Actis, she was co-head of capital solutions and investor relations for

HCI Equity Partners, a lower middle market private equity firm,.has added Bob Currier to the HCI Executive Partner group to advise on human capital management, including talent acquisition, organisational design, leadership development and succession throughout the entire HCI portfolio. 

Brian Tierney, global head of portfolio operations and asset management at Blackstone, is leaving the firm to take up the role of president and chief executive officer at electricity supply, distribution and generation company FirstEnergy Corp. Tierney, who will join FirstEnergy on 1 June, is the company’s first permanent CEO since the retirement of Steven Strah in September last year. He succeeds interim CEO John Somerhalder II, who will continue to serve as the US utility firm’s chairman.  Tierney has previous experience in the energy sector having served as the finance chief of American Electric Power Co Inc, prior to

General Atlantic, a global growth equity firm, has appointed Mark Stevenson as a Senior Advisor. In his new role, Stevenson will provide strategic counsel and support to the firm’s investment teams and portfolio companies in the life sciences sector. Stevenson brings more than three decades of experience and significant leadership experience in the sector, most recently serving as executive vice president and chief operating officer at Thermo Fisher Scientific, a Fortune 100 company providing life science solutions, analytical instruments, specialty diagnostics and pharma services with over $40 billion in sales annually. He was responsible for the company’s portfolio of life