Experienced private equity and venture capital finance director, Marcus Karia has joined fast growing YFM Equity Partners (YFM) as chief financial officer. Joining YFM as a partner, Karia will work across YFM’s offices in London, Leeds, Manchester, Reading and Birmingham. Over the last 13 years, he has held roles across the fund management industry, including with Bridges Fund Management and with LDC, the private equity arm of Lloyds Banking Group.    Most recently, Karia was group finance director of London Stock Exchange-listed venture capital firm Arix Bioscience plc, dealing with all aspects of its operations and overseeing finance, portfolio monitoring

North Sky Capital (North Sky), a specialist in impact investing, has appointed Nate Condon as a Senior Associate in the firm’s Impact Secondaries practice. “Nate’s private equity skills, insights and can-do attitude will be a prodigious addition to the secondaries team,” says Scott Barrington, CEO. “Over the last two years, we have experienced a significant increase in demand for both of our investment strategies—sustainable infrastructure and impact secondaries—and Nate is one of several planned, highly-selective new hires we are making. The impact secondaries marketplace is expanding rapidly, and North Sky is uniquely positioned to find and invest in high growth

Global investment firm KKR has appointed KV Kamath as a Senior Advisor to KKR India. His appointment is effective immediately. Kamath has more than five decades of experience building and leading large Indian businesses. Most recently, Kamath served as the first President of the New Development Bank, a multilateral development bank established by the BRICS nations, from its founding in 2015 until 2020. Prior to that, he was Chairman of ICICI Bank and Infosys Limited, two of India’s leading companies. In October 2021, he was appointed the Chairperson of India’s newly established National Bank for Financing Infrastructure and Development, which

Clearwater Analytics, a provider of SaaS-based investment accounting, reporting, and analytics solutions, has appointed Jonathan Flitt as Global Head of Private Assets. In this capacity, he is leading product management, strategy, and execution to deliver platform capabilities and innovative solutions that provide total portfolio transparency for the rapidly-growing private markets space. This appointment reflects Clearwater’s continued investment in these asset classes.   Flitt brings to Clearwater extensive experience across alternatives, wealth, and asset management. He also has a proven track record working across Product, Operations and Technology to deliver solutions for clients at scale that drive digitisation and operational efficiency.

Blackstone has appointed Viral Patel as Global Head of Technology Investing for Blackstone Credit.  Patel, who was previously an investment professional in the firm’s Tactical Opportunities Group, will be responsible for identifying investment opportunities across the technology sector and providing entrepreneurs, companies and financial sponsors with the diverse range of flexible solutions offered by Blackstone Credit.  Blackstone Credit is the fastest growing segment of the firm driven by strong demand for private credit products from institutional, insurance and individual investors. Dwight Scott, Global Head of Blackstone Credit, says: “Viral is a world-class technology investor and will play a key leadership

Activa Capital, the Paris-based independent private equity firm, is pursuing its development strategy and announces the arrival of Julie Perouzel as Associate. Perouzel will reinforce the investment team in analyzing new opportunities.   Prior to joining Activa Capital, Perouzel worked as an M&A analyst at Rothschild & Co (1 year), after a previous work experience at BNP Paribas CIB.   Ju Perouzel lie, 24, is a graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay and of Paris Dauphine University with a Master 225 (corporate finance, corporate engineering).   Christophe Parier et Alexandre Masson, Managing Partners at Activa Capital, says: “We are

North Sky Capital (North Sky), a specialist in impact investing has appointed Ingrid Michalski as a Fund Operations Analyst. “We are thrilled to welcome Ingrid to North Sky,” says Scott Barrington, North Sky’s Chief Executive Officer. “She brings many years of experience in investment operations and will be an excellent addition to our growing team.” Michalski joins North Sky from Waycrosse, a Minnesota-based family office where she served as an Investment Operations Specialist. Previously she was a Securities Operations Specialist at Clearlend Securities and an International Banking Specialist at US Bank. Ingrid holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from the

Twelve Capital has introduced a revised organisational structure to prepare for future growth whilst preserving focus on performance generation and client orientation. Marcel Wildhaber and Nils Ossenbrink assume responsibility for day-to-day management as Co- Managing Partners and head the Group Management Committee. This committee oversees all aspects of operational business activities including client services and distribution efforts. Additionally reflecting the firm’s focus on performance generation, an Investment Oversight Committee has been established as a focal point for investment activities and governance. The committee is chaired by Urs Ramseier who maintains his role as Executive Chairman and CIO, and continues to

Perwyn has appointed Maxime Menu as an Investment Manager in its Private Equity team. Menu joins from OMERS Private Equity, where he worked as a Senior Associate. His experience includes working on majority, direct control buyouts with target equity investments of around USD300-600 million.  A fluent French and English speaker, he also speaks Italian and German and has worked on many transactions across Europe, with a particular focus on the UK, France, and Benelux.   His team at OMERS, led by recent Perwyn recruit Martin Le Huray, managed an asset portfolio valued at around $14.8bn.  Menu held asset management responsibility