The Stephens Group, a private investment firm backed by the Witt Stephens and Elizabeth Campbell families, has hired four new employees to bolster its business development, investment, and operational teams. Ryan Morrow was hired as a Principal to focus on technology investing and is responsible for all aspects of deal sourcing, evaluation, and execution of new technology-focused investments as well as partnering with portfolio company management to execute strategic and operational initiatives. Callie Blankenau was hired as a Senior Associate to assist with the business development efforts and is actively involved in sourcing and originating new transactions on behalf of

Investment firm Norwest Equity Partners (NEP) has appointed Billy Hegeman, an operating executive and business advisor, as an operating advisor.

Forge Global Holdings (Forge), a global private securities marketplace, has appointed James H Herbert, II to its Board of Directors Herbert has also been appointed to the Compensation Committee.

3i Group (3i) has promoted Andreas Gold, Rupert Howard, Rahul Lulla, Nikhil Patel, Bastiaan Peer and David Stephens to partner.

Global growth equity firm General Atlantic has appointed Lance Uggla as chief executive officer of BeyondNetZero, the firm’s climate growth equity venture focused on supporting and scaling high-growth companies that are developing innovative solutions to meet and exceed net zero emissions targets. Uggla is a successful entrepreneur and global business leader who most recently served as Chairman and CEO of IHS Markit, the UK-based global information company. Having founded Markit in 2003 to improve transparency and data accuracy in financial markets, Uggla grew the company both organically and through acquisition, leveraging technology advances to deliver more comprehensive and more timely

Muddy Waters Capital (Muddy Waters), an activist investment firm, has appointed Marta Obando as head of investor relations and marketing.

Turnspire Capital Partners (Turnspire) has added Luther Gatewood to its investment team as a Principal. Gatewood joins Turnspire from Athyrium Capital Partners where he was a Principal and played a leadership role in all aspects of the investment process, including origination, due diligence and structuring, in addition to driving portfolio company value enhancement. Prior to Athyrium, he was an investment analyst at Q Investments and at Elliott Management. Earlier in his career, Luther was an associate at Apax Partners and an analyst at Morgan Stanley.  

Global investment firm global investment firm KKR has appointed Pamela Alexander as Managing Director and Head of Corporate Citizenship, effective immediately.

Investor services group IQ-EQ has appointed Bram Eijsbouts as its new Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) for Luxembourg.

Hg, a software and services investor, has appointed four new Partners, a CFO and Head of Talent. Hg is promoting three colleagues to Partner: Chris Fielding (London), Hector Guinness (New York) and Benedikt Joeris (Munich).  In addition, Alexandre Flavier recently joined as a Partner, with a primary focus on software and tech-enabled services investments in France. Philip Marshall has also recently joined Hg as Group CFO, while Kerry Heaton has joined Hg as Head of Talent from HSBC.