HarbourVest Partners, a global private markets investment specialist, has appointed Adam Freedman as a managing director and Chief Compliance Officer (CCO). Freedman has more than 15 years of in-house legal and compliance experience, and most recently he was CCO and Associate General Counsel at Angelo, Gordon & Co. Prior to that role, he was an Executive Director in the Legal and Compliance division at Morgan Stanley. Freedman received his BA from Yale, his law degree from Oxford, and his Master’s in Law from the University of Chicago.

Great Hill Partners, a private equity firm that invests in high-growth, disruptive companies, has added Ned Leutz as go-to-market lead on the firm’s Growth team.  Leutz will collaborate with other members of the Growth Team to identify and pursue opportunities to enhance value and further scale Great Hill’s portfolio companies. Leutz is a seasoned executive with over 15 years of experience developing and executing go-to-market strategies, as well as driving top-line revenue and customer growth. LeuHetz is the most recent addition to Great Hill’s Growth Team, which focuses on providing the strategic resources and guidance needed to enhance the growth

Waterfall Asset Management has promoted Leo Wong and Keerthi Raghavan to partner from managing director. Both are based in New York office and join the six current partners at the firm. Raghavan and Wong have been instrumental in developing Waterfalls’ high yield ABS trading and residential loan strategies, respectively.

HIG Growth Partners (HIG Growth), the dedicated growth capital investment affiliate of HIG Capital, has expanded its leadership team with the appointment of two managing directors  – Patrick Conroy and Hans Sherman. The firm has also added three principals.  The appointments come following a record year of capital deployment and continued strong returns for HIG Growth. Conroy and Sherman will focus on growth equity investments across tech-enabled consumer and software verticals. Conroy has spent over a decade investing in and advising high growth technology businesses and joins HIG from Revolution Growth, where he was a Partner. He began his career

GrowthCurve Capital, a control-oriented private equity firm focused on the financial and information services, healthcare, and technology sectors, has appointed Angela Geffre as head of human capital and a member of the firm’s Investment Committee. Geffre brings 20 years of human capital experience from private equity and Fortune 500 companies. Her previous experience includes growing businesses and leading global Talent Centers of Expertise and Human Resources at Sun Capital Partners, Inc, JLL, Kellogg Company and Procter & Gamble. She has led several organisational transformations, accelerating business growth through talent acquisition, performance management and feedback, organisational design, diversity, leadership development, and

Business and financial advisory firm Grant Thornton UK has promoted Martin Verrall to transaction tax partner in its South region. Verrall has a wealth of experience at Grant Thornton, joining as a graduate 15 years ago and spending the last decade working in transactions. In recent years, his key responsibilities have been focussed on leading sell side transaction tax.   Based in the firm’s Gatwick office, Verrall will lead a team of ten located across the South of the UK, with input from other VAT and employment specialists.   In this position, Verall will continue to provide specialist expertise and

Rivus Capital, an urban tech investor with offices in Munich and Berlin, has appointed Patrick Schloter as partner and head of private equity. The 37-year-old has extensive professional experience in the investment business and in management consulting, having held positions in Frankfurt, London and Munich. Rivus Capital engages in private equity and venture capital investments in the core sectors of Real Estate Technology, Mobility, Energy and Impact. These four segments are grouped together as “Urban Tech”.  In contrast to many other investment companies, Rivus Capital does not manage the capital of institutional investors. Instead, the company invests its own funds

Siris, a private equity firm focused on investing and driving value creation in technology companies, has appointed Vipul Tandon as a Managing Director and Head of Credit Opportunities.   In his new role, Tandon will look to capitalise on meaningful opportunities to invest in structured credit and junior capital in the technology industry.   Credit Opportunities is a natural extension of Siris’ research-driven sourcing model and its value and operational approach to technology investing. The team will leverage the Siris team’s industry knowledge and investing expertise, as well as the Siris Executive Partners’ operational experience.    Tandon has more than

Private equity attorney Nicola Di Giovanni has joined Skadden as a partner in the firm’s Paris office. Di Giovanni’s practice focuses on domestic and cross-border private equity. Di Giovanni advises investment funds, family offices and industrial companies in particular on acquisitions, buy-outs and joint ventures.  Di Giovanni cola joins from another international law firm in Paris where he was a partner in its corporate department. He is fluent in French, English and Italian.  

Francisco Partners (FP) has hired Ashley Evans as a Partner of the firm. At FP, Ashley will focus primarily on application software investments across a range of end-markets. Evans most recently served as a Managing Director at Carlyle Group, where she was a member of its technology investing team. Evans helped to establish Carlyle’s West Coast presence and was involved in many key investments for Carlyle’s technology team, most recently serving on the boards of HireVue, NEOGOV, Saama, TriNetX, Veritas, and ZoomInfo.  Prior to Carlyle, Ashley worked as an analyst at Morgan Stanley. She earned her AB in the Study