Evercore has appointed Thomas Sabatier as a Vice President in the firm’s Private Capital Advisory group (PCA). Sabatier will be based in the London office and will focus on advising limited partners on secondary market transactions and providing execution services. Sabatier has over seven years of experience in the secondaries market across Europe, most recently as a Principal in Triago’s London office. He will be joining his former Triago colleagues David Markson, James Fish, Michael Bynarowicz and Eli Auerbach who recently joined the Evercore PCA team in New York. Lea Lazaric Calvert, Head of PCA Europe, says: “We are delighted

Caroline Heal has joined Maples and Calder, the Maples Group’s law firm, as a Funds & Investment Management Partner in its Cayman Islands office. Heal brings extensive experience in the structuring, formation and operation of offshore hedge funds, private equity funds and investment fund platforms. She advises a wide range of asset managers and financial institutions and has been recognised for her expertise by The Legal 500. Heal will be an integral member of the firm’s top-tier Cayman Islands Funds & Investment Management team where she will also collaborate closely with lawyers and professionals across the firm’s global practices in

Edison Partners, the growth equity investment firm, has made a series of executive appointments. Effective immediately, Gregg Michaelson has been promoted to General Partner, Jennifer Lee has been promoted to Partner, and Joe Giquinto has been named Chief Financial Officer.  These promotions recognise the immense value of Michaelson’s operational and investment expertise, Lee’s fintech dealmaking prowess, and the seamless financial and accounting oversight Giquinto has provided to the firm as the complexity of its needs have evolved.   “Edison remains committed to finding capital efficient businesses with existing product-market fit, a strategy that has delivered exponentially stronger results for our

IQ-EQ has appointed Edwin Chan as its Chief Commercial Officer for UK and Ireland – the latest in a series of senior new hires.   Chan brings with him over 20 years of experience helping launch and grow fund services businesses, including within leading international banks in London, Bermuda and Hong Kong. An expert in sales and negotiation, he will be entrusted with fostering strong relationships with IQ-EQ clients and prospects, as well as developing and executing key growth sales strategies, tactics and action plans.    As IQ-EQ pushes ahead with ambitious growth plans, Chan will play a critical role

Early-stage venture capital firm Flyover Capital Partners has appointed Tristan Mace as Managing Partner.  Mace will focus on expanding the firm’s growth initiatives, sourcing new investments, and supporting portfolio companies. Mace relocated to Kansas City from New York City, where he founded and invested in technology ventures and advised leading venture capital firms. Prior to Flyover Capital, he was a Venture Partner at Warburg Serres (formerly Animal Ventures), where he led Blockchain and Web3 investment strategy on behalf of Merck and AXA. He has served on Advisor Panels for the US Government’s Executive Branch, the Council of Experts for the

Technology expert Vahan Vardanian has inked an agreement to assist emerging markets private equity firm Da Vinci Capital with developing the firm’s pipeline of portfolio companies in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), primarily Armenia and Georgia. Vardanian has over 25 years of experience in the digital technology, financial technology, retail and market infrastructure industries. From 2013-17, Vardanian was a partner at McKinsey & Company in the CIS. From 2011-13, he was chief information officer of PJSC Moscow Exchange (MCX: MOEX), which concluded an initial public offering in 2013. From 2004-2010, Vardanian was chief technology officer at Renaissance Capital, where

finnCap Group has appointed Zuleika Salter as Co-Head of its Private Growth Capital division. finnCap is a provider of strategic advisory and capital raising services to growth companies. As an integral part of the firm’s full-service offering, the private growth capital team is focused on partnering with the most innovative, entrepreneurial businesses, helping them raise capital from VCs, VCTs, private equity and family offices.   The appointment will strengthen finnCap’s Private Growth Capital division and enhance the team’s ability to source funding for its clients from an increasingly large pool of capital. By developing long-term relationship with businesses, finnCap, through

Seraphim Space, the manager of Seraphim Space Investment Trust plc (LSE: SSIT), the world’s first listed Space Tech Fund, has appointed the former Investment Director of Virgin Management, Andre Ronsoehr, to help develop and build out the space investment portfolio. The appointment is effective immediately. Ronsoehr joins Seraphim Space as Investment Director following a career focussed on the space sector, working for almost a decade at Virgin Management – the family office of Sir Richard Branson. Ronsoehr co-led the seed investment in One Web in 2015 and was instrumental in investments into Virgin Galactic and Virgin Orbit. During this time