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.

ICR Capital, the broker-dealer affiliate of strategic communications and advisory firm ICR, has hired Michael Goldberg as a Managing Director in its Equity Capital Markets group. Goldberg will advise corporate management teams and financial sponsors across all industry verticals on the full spectrum of public and private equity transactions, including IPOs, follow-on offerings, block trades, SPACs and convertible offerings.

JST Capital (JST), a global financial services firm specialising in digital assets, has appointed Martin C Grant as global head of regulatory affairs & integrity. In his new role, Grant will be responsible for navigating the evolving digital asset regulatory environment on behalf of JST. He will work within JST to ensure best practices and will also be a resource for the firm’s clients and will continue JST’s discussions with global regulators as they work to adopt policies for the evolving digital asset markets.