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Willkie Farr & Gallagher has appointed Tiana Rambatomanga as a partner in the firm’s Asset Management group. She will be based in the Paris office.
Rambatomanga’s practice covers all segments of private equity, with a particular focus on infrastructure, debt and real estate. Representative clients include Mirova, Indigo, European Investment Bank, Eurazeo and Peugeot Invest.
She will work alongside Nathalie Duguay, a recognised market leader who is known for her long-standing work with clients such as 21 Central Partners, Abenex, Apax Partners, BlackFin Capital Partners, PAI Partners, Sagard, and Wendel, among others. Tiana and Nathalie have known each other for
Victress Capital, an early-stage VC firm which invests in high-growth companies designed to meet the needs of the evolving consumer, has appointed Taryn Jones Laeben as an Operating Partner.
Laeben brings 20 years experience in developing hyper-growth strategy and scaling revenue for today’s top consumer brands. Laeben is the former Chief Operating Officer (COO) of SoulCycle, Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) of Casper and executive at leading fashion and retail companies including Kate Spade. Laeben is currently President & Founder of IRL Partners, where she advises venture-backed consumer startups on brand and growth strategy.
Since 2016, Victress Managing Partners Lori Cashman
Manhattan West, an investment company with a vertically integrated platform of in-house services and investments, has added Reginald “Reggie” Tucker to the Venture Capital team as Managing Director.
Tucker brings more than a decade of experience to Manhattan West, as a capital allocator in both public and private markets, venture capital and private debt. He will bring his deep network of limited partner and general partner relationships to the organisation as it builds out its venture capital division, complementing the firm’s private equity, real estate and private debt investment strategies.
Manhattan West’s entrepreneurial, energetic culture, and unique geographic and relational
KKR has appointed Kerryann Benjamin as Chief Diversity Officer and Head of Talent Management, effective immediately. In this role, Benjamin will be based in New York and will drive KKR’s diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) strategy, a strategic priority for the firm, as well as KKR’s global talent development strategy.
Benjamin joins KKR from Goldman Sachs & Co, where she spent nearly two decades in various roles across the business and Human Capital Management team, including as Head of Human Capital Management for their Consumer and Wealth Management business. Throughout her time at Goldman Sachs & Co, Benjamin also held
Sycamore Tree Capital Partners (Sycamore Tree), a specialist asset manager with private and alternative credit investment expertise, has appointed Paul Travers as a Managing Director and Portfolio Manager, effective 9 September, 2021.
Bloc Ventures (Bloc), a venture capital company focused on early-stage European deep technology investment, has appointed Andy Green CBE as Senior Independent Director and Sue Prevezer QC as Non-Executive Director.
Green CBE spent 22 years at BT in leadership roles including as a board member, four years as CEO of Logica (a GBP4 billion turnover business ahead of its acquisition by CGI in 2021) and five years as a NED at Arm (working with Bloc’s CEO, Bruce Beckloff and CCO, Michael Dimelow in the process). He’s held Chairman or NED roles at multiple global technology organisations and has in depth
Tola Capital, a venture capital firm that believes in the power of software and data to transform the way the world works, has appointed Phil Sorgen as a Venture Partner.
Sorgen will be part of the Tola investment team, serve on boards, and guide companies on their sales and growth strategies.
Sorgen has grown depth and breadth businesses at scale. Most recently, he was the Chief Revenue Officer for RingCentral, where he led the company’s global sales and partner organisation. Prior to this role he spent 24 years at Microsoft, most recently as a Corporate Vice President, leading Microsoft’s US
Centerview Partners, an independent investment banking advisory firm, has added industry veterans Jack MacDonald, Gary Kirkham and Steve Miller to the firm’s technology practice in Palo Alto.
MacDonald, Kirkham and Miller each bring decades of senior-level investment banking experience across the technology industry.
“We are thrilled to expand our technology practice with Jack, Gary and Steve, who are among the most seasoned and well regarded investment banking professionals in the industry and align culturally with our entrepreneurial west coast operation,” says Robert Pruzan, co-founder of Centerview. “Their unparalleled insights, extensive network of relationships and decades-long track records working across the
IT staffing company Talent Group has named industry veteran Matthew Ripaldi as its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO).
The company has also completed a major rebrand designed to better reflect its identity as a provider of a full suite of recruitment services poised for continued growth.
Formed in 2018 by the combination of two leading IT staffing companies, Talent Group today manages a network of specialised delivery teams that offer a full suite of recruitment services for the IT, Life Sciences, Engineering, and Finance & Accounting sectors. Talent Group unites the power of a national team of seasoned client
Grafton Capital, a growth investor in European technology companies, has appointed Simon Rowan as a Partner.
Rowan joins Grafton Capital from Dunedin LLP, where he was a Partner and member of the Investment Committee which oversaw the highly successful Dunedin Buyout Fund III, which was focused on tech-enabled businesses.
Rowan led the technology enabled services investment team at Dunedin and sat on the Board of Incremental Group, a market leading digital transformation specialist. Prior to Dunedin, Rowan worked in New York in HSBC Investments fund of funds team before helping to establish HSBC UK Private Equity from London. He has
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