Private equity firm Genstar Capital has promoted Sid Ramakrishnan and Scott Niehaus to Director and Dominic Martellaro to Principal. Ramakrishnan originally joined Genstar in 2012 as an Associate and re-joined the firm in 2017 as Vice President. He was named Principal in 2019.  Niehaus joined Genstar in 2017 after receiving his MBA from Harvard Business School and was named Principal in 2020.  Martellaro originally joined Genstar as an Associate in 2014 and re-joined the firm in 2019 as a Vice President after receiving his MBA. 

Venture capital firm Piva Capital has appointed Elizabeth (Beth) Lowery as a Senior Advisor and Daryl Kennedy as its Investor Relations and ESG Manager. In their new roles, they will lend their expertise to drive strategic direction and implementation of ESG principles and activities across Piva’s business operations and investments.     Lowery is currently a Senior Advisor, Sustainable Finance and ESG with ERM, a sustainability consulting firm, and will help Piva Capital evaluate investment prospects and assess ESG-related risks and opportunities.  Kennedy was most recently Lead Sustainable and Responsible Investment Policy Adviser for The Investment Association, the UK’s trade

Rathbone Greenbank Investments (Greenbank) has appointed Marian Woodward as impact manager.  She will be based in Rathbones’ London office and will report to Kate Elliot, Head of Ethical, Sustainable and Impact Research.   In the role of impact manager, Woodward will work closely with Greenbank’s investment teams based in London, Bristol, Liverpool and Scotland. She will be responsible for leading the enhancement of Greenbank’s impact investment offering, including identifying further impact investment opportunities for clients and developing Greenbank’s impact reporting.  

Insurance Advisory Partners, a specialist insurance M&A, strategic and capital-raising advisory firm, has appointed Bhaven Pathak as partner and head of UK & Europe, effective 1 May, subject to regulatory approval.  Pathak will be responsible for leading and developing Insurance Advisory Partners’ operations in London, following the company’s launch in New York in August by banking, insurance and insurtech veterans Tony Ursano and David Kimmel. Pathak brings more than 20 years of insurance, fintech and investment banking experience to Insurance Advisory Partners including roles at HSBC, Hiscox and Canopius.   

HCAP Partners, a California-based private equity firm and nationally recognised impact investor, has appointed Tom Woelfel as senior director of impact. Woelfel joined HCAP Partners to lead the Gainful Jobs Approach and overall impact management efforts, partnering with HCAP portfolio companies and collaborating with limited partners and industry thought leaders to improve job quality and generate positive impact in LMI communities. Prior to joining HCAP Partners, Woelfel served for over a decade as Director of Pacific Community Ventures’ research and consulting practice focused on supporting the growth and efficacy of impact investing.  As a part of his role at HCAP

AURELIUS Group, a pan-European, mid-market investor, has made a series of new hires in its London-based team. 

Corporate and M&A attorney Waajid Siddiqui has joined Holland & Knight’s New York office as a partner. He focuses on upstream and downstream oil and gas transactions, as well as acquisitions and divestitures of lending and leasing platforms and portfolios of financial assets. Siddiqui was previously a partner with Shearman & Sterling. Prior to becoming a private practice lawyer, Siddiqui was senior counsel for a large integrated energy company, where he worked on cross-border M&A and corporate finance transactions.

Circumference Group, an operationally-focused investment firm, has named Karsten Lampka as partner of private equity investments. In this newly created role, Lampka will lead Circumference Group’s private investing practice. Lampka brings to Circumference Group more than 25 years of investment banking and private equity experience. Over his distinguished career, he has executed over USD25 billion in M&A and private and public capital raising across the healthcare, technology, telecom, media and general industrial sectors.   Lampka most recently served as CEO of Tri-Private Capital, a family office based in Nashville. Prior to Tri-Private Capital, he spent over a decade at Avondale

Partech has promoted André François-Poncet to partner and appointed Elena Moneta as principal in the Venture team.   Based in Paris, François-Poncet has been a major contributor over his seven years with the firm. He has been instrumental in the investments of Partech Growth including Made.com (IPO in June 2021), Brandwatch (acquired by Cision in 2021), EcoVadis, M-Files, Sendinblue and more recently Skello and Weglot. Moneta’s six years of experience span across investment banking, venture investing and start-up operations. Prior to joining Partech, she was a venture capital investor in London at early-stage VC firm Hambro Perks, where she focused

Roelof Botha, 48, has been appointed as the new head of venture capital giant Sequoia Capital, according to a report by Bloomberg.