Gresham House, a specialist alternative asset manager, has further strengthened its Sustainable Infrastructure team with the addition of investment manager Ana Janine. The hire complements the recent successful GBP100 million first close of Gresham House’s British Sustainable Infrastructure Fund II (BSIF II), backed by the Worcestershire Pension Fund and Teesside Pension Fund. BSIF II, a direct follow-on to the now fully invested infrastructure strategy BSIF I, targets profitable, real assets-based solutions addressing pressing environmental and societal challenges encapsulated by the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Led by Peter Bachmann, the Gresham House Sustainable Infrastructure team has vast experience in infrastructure investment and

JP Morgan Private Capital today announced the appointment of Luke Sikora as a Partner of its Growth Equity Partners platform. Sikora will serve as a member of the Investment Committee and help lead the platform’s investing efforts on the West Coast.  Based in Palo Alto, Sikora joins from Vulcan Capital where he spent the past eight years investing in and being a long-term partner to private, rapidly growing private technology companies across the globe (full bio below). His previous investments include Alibaba, Dataminr, Emotive, Flipkart, Grab, Intercom, Loft, MaintainX, Nelogica, Neon, Signal Sciences, Spotify, TraceLink, Uber, Wildlife Studios and Zuora.

Winston & Strawn has appointed seven new leaders to key firm offices in Charlotte, Chicago, Houston, London, Los Angeles, New York, and Paris. “Winston is committed to delivering exceptional service to our clients worldwide,” says Tom Fitzgerald, Winston’s chairman. “This new and accomplished team of managing partners will anchor seven important markets that are key to our global strategy. We congratulate them on this assignment and thank our outgoing office managing partners for their outstanding leadership.” Winston & Strawn’s Executive Committee periodically realigns management and leadership. The new office managing partners will focus on continuing the firm’s recent growth and

Berkshire Partners has appointed Kristin Johnsen as an Advisory Director.  Johnsen, a longtime technology executive, will partner with the firm’s technology team to evaluate new investment ideas and partner with portfolio companies on growth initiatives. “We are thrilled to welcome Kristin to the team and look forward to deepening our relationship with her as an Advisory Director,” says EJ Whelan, Managing Director of Berkshire Partners. “Kristin brings deep technology leadership experience that will be invaluable for our private equity team in assessing new opportunities, and with our portfolio company teams in prioritising and executing on growth strategies.” Johnsen has more

Sun Capital Partners (Sun Capital), a private investment firm focused on defensible businesses in growing markets with tangible performance improvement opportunities, has promoted three executives who currently serve as members of the Executive and Investment Committees alongside the firm’s two founders.  Senior Managing Director and Head of Private Equity North America, M Steven Liff has been named Senior Partner, and Senior Managing Directors, Operations Bruce Roberson and Tim Stubbs have been promoted to Partner. Together with their promotions, each executive joined the ownership of the general partner.    “We are very happy to welcome Steve, Bruce and Tim as Partners

NewSpring, a family of private equity strategies, has promoted Hart Callahan to Partner of NewSpring Growth, the Firm’s dedicated growth and expansion strategy.  NewSpring Growth invests in industry-transforming, fast-growing companies with talented, innovative management teams to support their growth. “The NewSpring Growth team is composed of former operators and investors with a relentless focus on value creation. The promotion of Hart further strengthens this team’s ability to source attractive investment opportunities and help our existing portfolio companies devise innovative growth strategies that bring their businesses to new heights, creating measurable value for both our management teams and our investors,” says

Värde Partners, a global alternative investment firm, has promoted Shannon Gallagher and Mona Girotra to Global Co-Heads of its Business Development and Investor Relations (BDIR) group reporting to the firm’s President, Jon Fox. “Shannon and Mona have great relationships with our investors and have consistently demonstrated strong results and leadership skills,” says Fox. “I’m excited to see them take this next step and I look forward to working closely with them and our investors as they oversee our fundraising and IR team.”   Based in London, Gallagher joined Värde in 2018 and had previously been responsible for leading business development

Stirling Square Capital Partners, a London-based mid-market private equity investor, has made two key hires to augment its internal capabilities. Toni Gillespie joins the firm as Chief of Talent after a long career in HR at UBS, Credit Suisse, Bridgepoint, and most recently AMP Capital. She will be responsible for recruiting, fostering and developing human capital within the firm. Stirling Square is committed to best practices in meritocracy, diversity, inclusion and compensation. The Chief of Talent will also play an essential role in supporting Stirling Square portfolio companies’ strive for excellence in leadership management, as the firm drives ambitious change