The Board of Big Society Capital has appointed Robin Hindle Fisher as its new Chair. Hindle Fisher will take over from Sir Harvey McGrath who has chaired the UK social impact investment organisation for the last eight years since taking up the role in January 2014. Hindle Fisher has long experience in both the investment management industry and the charity sector – bringing together both dimensions of Big Society Capital’s mission of building the social impact investment market in a way that works for both investors, and social enterprises and charities. Robin has served for over twenty years on the

Ethos Capital (Ethos) has appointed Scott Stevens as a Principal. Stevens joins Ethos from Pamlico Capital (Pamlico). Prior to Pamlico, he was an investment professional at ABRY Partners (ABRY), where he collaborated on multiple transactions with Erik Brooks, Co-CEO of Ethos, and Chris Ritchie who recently joined as a Partner.   While at Pamlico, Stevens focused on investments in the information services, software and education technology sectors. He also served on the board of directors of several companies, including Aite-Novarica Group, CEATI International, and Profisee. At ABRY, he reviewed and executed investment opportunities across the IT services, software, and financial

VSS Capital Partners (VSS), a middle-market private investment firm investing in education, healthcare, and business services, announced today that it has appointed Dr Sabrina Kay as a Strategic Partner to the firm’s Senior Advisors team. In her role, Dr Kay will serve as a board member and advisor to portfolio companies and share her expertise in growth strategies and talent and technology management.   Dr Kay brings extensive business management experience to her role at VSS, reflected by her distinguished career as a founder and CEO of five businesses spanning multiple industries such as education, technology, design, and banking. As

MidOcean Partners, a middle market private equity firm focused on the business services and consumer sectors, has promoted Sara Parker Badham to Managing Director and Partner. In addition, MidOcean has also promoted Steven Loeffler to Principal.   Parker joined MidOcean as an Associate in 2012. Over the past decade, she has been instrumental in driving value within the business services and consumer sectors, and has played an influential role in MidOcean’s data & information services platform investments, including Zonda, Music Reports, Questex and Penton.  Loeffler joined MidOcean as an Associate in 2013 and has since been focused on the firm’s

Northleaf Capital Partners (Northleaf) has strengthened its private equity leadership team in the United Kingdom (UK) and Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) with the appointment of Sanja Cvetinovic as a Managing Director, based in London. Cvetinovic will lead Northleaf’s private equity investment origination and execution strategy, including secondary, primary and direct investments, in the UK/EMEA and will assume leadership of the private equity investment team in London. She will work closely with Shane Feeney, Global Head of Secondaries at Northleaf, to build on the firm’s highly successful 20-year track record in global secondaries investing. In addition, Matthieu Ducharme,

Capstone Partners, a leading global placement agent, has promoted Michael Keaveney and Jeff Walters to Partner, following a very successful year in 2021. These promotions reflect Capstone’s commitment to recognising success in the team and the continued growth of the business.   Keaveney joined Capstone in 2014 and is responsible for distribution and client origination in the Northeastern and Eastern United States.  Walters joined Capstone in 2008 and is responsible for distribution and client origination in the Midwestern United States.

Markku Lonnqvist has been appointed Chief Investment Officer of Hipgnosis Song Management reporting directly to Chief Executive Officer Merck Mercuriadis. Lonnqvist has had a long career in private equity and joins from Pamplona Capital Management LLP where he was a partner for the last 17 years managing investments across several funds both in Europe and North America. Before that, he was in investment banking in London and New York for nine years.

New York-based private equity firm Blue Wolf Capital Partners (Blue Wolf) has added Natalie Marjancik to the firm’s senior leadership and investment team as Managing Director, Capital Markets. Marjancik most recently served as Managing Director at Lincoln International, a leading global investment banking advisory firm, where she focused on capital and debt advisory. Prior to joining Blue Wolf, Marjancik spent almost 13 years at Lincoln International focusing on capital and debt advisory. During her time there, she served as a key advisor to corporate and private equity clients on the structuring and arranging of debt finance across multiple sectors, including,

Blank Rome has appointed Nina Bianchi Skinner as a partner in the firm’s Corporate, M&A, and Securities group in Houston. Skinner concentrates her practice in mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, recapitalisations, distressed business transactions, joint ventures, private placements, borrower-side finance, corporate governance, and general corporate counselling. She also represents clients in sophisticated over-the-counter derivatives transactions and related Dodd-Frank, EMIR, and other regulatory compliance matters.  As part of Blank Rome’s commitment to expanding in Houston, the firm also recently welcomed finance partners Cassandra G Mott and Sarah H Frazier, corporate partner C Brendan Cummings, and Mexican counsel Ana Cecilia Ibarra-Van Oostenrijk. 

ACORE Capital, a credit manager focused on commercial real estate lending, has appointed Roger (Roddy) W Conner as Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer of Marketing and Investor Relations. In this critical role, he will work with the team to provide best-in-class solutions and service to ACORE’s global capital relationships. He will report to Michael Romo, Senior Managing Director and Head of Capital Raising.