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Accelmed Partners (Accelmed), a private equity firm focused on acquiring and investing in US commercial stage, lower middle market HealthTech companies, has appointed Katherine Relle as Vice President.
Relle joins Accelmed from JP Morgan’s Private Equity Group, where she served as a Portfolio Manager and Vice President.
“Katherine is a seasoned and rising investment professional, who brings a tremendous amount of private equity investment experience to the firm and furthers our ability to source, identify and execute investments in HealthTech companies across the US,” says Dr Uri Geiger, Founder and Managing Partner of Accelmed.
Relle began her career
Unigrains, an agri-food and agro-industry specialised investor, has appointed Eric Thirouin as President and Maxime Vandoni as CEO.
Eric Thirouin is President of the AGPB (a professional organisation of grain growers) since 2019 and a Unigrains Board Member since 2018.
Vandoni is a seasoned executive with extensive experience in large consumer goods companies, at the helm of agri-food and cooperative groups, and in the world of renewable energies.
They respectively succeed Philippe Pinta and Jean-François Laurain, both warmly thanked by the Board of Directors for their decisive actions and their implication in the company’s success.
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Specialist business advisory firm FRP has added to its debt advisory team in London with the appointment of Jo Power as a director.
Power has more than 15 years’ experience in corporate finance and lending across a wide range of sectors, with particular focus on healthcare, business services and technology. She joins FRP from a private US debt fund where she worked as a director, responsible for underwriting new UK and cross-border mid-market SME loans.
A qualified chartered accountant, Power began her career at BDO, before moving to the Royal Bank of Scotland’s leveraged finance team. There, she led the
Law firm Dentons has added to its Corporate and M&A practice in Spain with the appointment of Israel de Diego as a new partner in Madrid.
De Diego is a corporate lawyer who advises companies and private equity funds on mergers and acquisitions, both national and international, as well as capital markets transactions.
He is recognised among Spain’s leading Corporate and M&A lawyers by international legal directories such as Chambers Europe and IFLR1000. Before joining Dentons, he was a partner at Spanish law firm Araoz & Rueda, and prior to that, he was an M&A and Capital Markets partner
Monroe Capital has expanded its platform to Asia with the appointment of Alex Kim, as Managing Director and Head of Asia. The newly opened office in Seoul, South Korea reflects Monroe’s commitment to expanding its business in Asia.
Piva Capital, a VC firm that’s backs ‘visionary’ founders and emerging technology companies transforming industry, has appointed Mark Gudiksen as the firm’s second Managing Partner and Roxanne Tully has joined as an Investor.
Founded in 2019, Piva Capital believes emerging companies need investors who are global, fast-moving, engaged, supportive, and connected. The firm takes a thesis-driven approach that includes using an Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) framework to create value, having invested in 11 companies redefining trillion-dollar markets such as agriculture, manufacturing, chemicals, transportation, and energy.
Recent investments include Boston Metal, a company accelerating industrial-scale deployments of molten oxide electrolysis
Genstar Capital, a private equity firm focused on investments in targeted segments of the financial services, healthcare, industrials, and software industries, has appointed inancial services industry veteran Charles Goldman to its Strategic Advisory Board.
Tony Salewski, Managing Director at Genstar Capital, says: “Charles has a long and rich history working with Genstar, including a close partnership during our ownership of AssetMark. He was a tremendous leader at AssetMark, accomplishing a significant business transformation, growing assets under management and increasing revenue and EBITDA before it was sold in 2016. He also serves as a Board member of Genstar portfolio company Mercer
Perwyn has appointed Martin le Huray has Partner and member of its Investment Committee. He will be based in Perwyn’s London office.
Le Huray joins Perwyn from HgCapital where he was an equity partner focusing on Software and Technology investments.
Prior to Hg, le Huray was Co-Head of European Private Equity at OMERS, where he played a leading role in building their team, culture, portfolio, and reputation. At OMERS, le Huray was also a member of the Private Equity and Infrastructure Investment Committees and of the Global Private Equity and European pan-asset leadership teams. Prior to OMERS, Martin worked
Drawbridge, a premier provider of cybersecurity software and solutions to the investment industry, has added three industry veterans to bolster its business development, strategy and operations teams.
Drawbridge continues to invest in premier talent to drive exceptional customer service, meet new client and market requirements and continue to scale the business through a period of hyper growth.
2021 has been a breakthrough year for Drawbridge. The company secured a growth equity investment from Long Ridge Equity Partners in early 2021 and named FinTech industry pioneer Scott DePetris President & Chief Operating Officer (COO) and appointed him to the
Brevan Howard Asset Management LLP, a global alternative investment management platform, has appointed Colleen Sullivan, CEO and co-founder of CMT Digital, to lead the firm’s private and venture investment activities in crypto.
Additionally, Sullivan is to chair the investment committee of a new strategy which will focus on the highly compelling and disruptive technologies in this asset class. Brevan Howard is also announcing the formation of BH Digital, a new division to manage cryptocurrency and digital assets.
“Brevan Howard’s belief in the huge diversity of opportunities within the digital asset space and the significance of this to long term macro
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