Private investment firm Sun Capital Partners (Sun Capital) has made two additions to its senior leadership team with Susan Clark joining as Managing Director – Head of Technology Value Creation on the Operations team, and Kelli Turner as Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer. “We are thrilled to welcome Susan and Kelli to the Sun Capital team,” says Marc Leder, Co-CEO of Sun Capital Partners. “Susan’s proven success driving value creation in technology businesses will facilitate the growth of Sun Capital’s rapidly expanding technology vertical, while Kelli’s experience with financial management and firm operations will help to ensure our continued

Investec Bank (Investec) has appointed Tom Lewin to lead its FIG (Financial Institutions Group) M&A advisory team.  His appointment will be followed by two further FIG advisory hires, to be announced in the coming months. Lewin joins from KMPG, where he was a partner in the Financial Services M&A team. He previously worked at Barclays and Rothschild, and has extensive experience advising on M&A activity for corporate and private equity clients. At Investec, he will lead the bank’s FIG advisory offering, working with public, private and sponsor-backed clients. The M&A advisory offering complements a highly ranked team of FIG analysts:

Great Hill Partners, a private equity firm that invests in high-growth, disruptive companies, has added Andrew Gorrin as Growth Partner.  In this role, Gorrin will work collaboratively with Great Hill investment teams and portfolio company management to help design and execute their growth strategies. Gorrin brings to Great Hill a strong track record of sales, marketing and product management across a diverse set of industries. His appointment reflects yet another addition to Great Hill’s in-house Growth Partner program and emphasises the firm’s long-term commitment to providing the strategic resources and guidance needed to enhance the growth trajectories of its portfolio

Gen II Fund Services and Gen II Luxembourg Services, a leading independent private equity fund administrator, is adding to its Luxembourg-based team. Duncan J Christie has joined the firm as Head of Operations and Client Services and a Member of the Executive Committee, and Eva Ntovolou joined the firm as Global Data Protection Officer.  Christie, a seasoned operations executive, will focus on developing our operational model and the provision of best-in-class client delivery, helping to drive Gen II’s continued growth across Europe. Ntovolou, an experienced data protection executive and an attorney, will support the firm’s data protection needs across Europe

Standish Management, a leading independent provider of fund administration services to Private Equity, Venture Capital, and Real Estate managers, has expanded into the UK. Standish Management based in London, will offer UK administration and depositary services and is now operational after gaining authorisation from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). Mark Coppin has been appointed as the office lead for Standish Management UK and has been appointed as a Director of Standish Management (UK) Limited. He brings with him 25 years of experience in fund administration services to the Private Equity and Venture Capital industry. Standish now has a team of

Vista Equity Partners (Vista), a global investment firm focused exclusively on enterprise software, data and technology-enabled businesses, is expanding its senior team with the appointment of Brian W Steel as Managing Director, Strategic Communications.  Effective immediately, Steel will lead the firm’s media relations and strategic firm communications programs. “As one of the world’s most active and preeminent investors in today’s market-leading enterprise software organisations, we are thrilled to add a communications partner to the team to help convey our expertise, size, scale and ultimately, the value we generate for all our stakeholders,” says David A Breach, President and Chief Operating

Holland & Knight has expanded its Private Equity Team with the addition of Alvin Johnson as partner in the firm’s Atlanta office.  Johnson represents private equity firms and the world’s leading companies in a wide variety of domestic and cross-border transactions. He was previously an associate with DLA Piper.   “Alvin’s significant experience advising private equity clients and strong focus on client service are a perfect fit for our corporate and private equity practices,” says David Barkus, co-head of Holland & Knight’s Corporate, M&A and Securities Practice Group and head of the firm’s Private Equity Team. “We are fortunate that

HIG Growth Partners (HIG Growth), the growth capital investment affiliate of HIG Capital, has promoted Managing Director Scott Hilleboe to Co-Head of HIG Growth to work alongside Ross Hiatt who has been hired as a Managing Director and Co-Head.  Both will be based in San Francisco and will lead the day-to-day investment activities of HIG Growth. They succeed John Black who will remain with HIG Growth as a Senior Advisor. Hilleboe has almost two decades of experience investing in venture capital and private equity transactions, and focuses on SaaS software, cybersecurity, marketplaces, consumer tech, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and hard

FTV Capital, a sector-focused growth equity investor in innovative enterprise technology and services, financial services, and payments and transaction processing companies, has promoted Richard Liu to partner.  Since joining FTV in 2014, Liu has played an integral role in expanding the firm’s successful enterprise technology and tech-enabled services practice.   With investing experience spanning security and compliance, vertical software, tech-enabled services and marketplaces, Liu has been instrumental in a number of notable investments at FTV. He is currently a board director at FTV portfolio companies A-LIGN, Security Compass and Sysnet, and actively involved with several other FTV investments, including Egress,

BriteCore, a provider of next-generation core platforms for P&C insurers, has appointed Ray Villeneuve as CEO and completed a USD20 million Series C financing.  The two strategic milestones move to further accelerate BriteCore’s growth and momentum as a leading provider of modern cloud-based core systems software for property and casualty (P&C) insurers. Villeneuve has been leading tech companies for the past two decades.  His executive experience includes launching and scaling up tech organisations in enterprise SaaS, machine learning, and artificial intelligence domains. These include Quartic.ai, Reflektion, Virtana (Virtual Instruments), Skytree, Riverbed, and NetApp. He has refined strategies, built successful teams,