Bespoke Partners, a provider of retained executive search and leadership advisory services, announced today that Katelyn Quaresma has been promoted to Partner at the firm. Most recently serving as Vice President, Quaresma has been pivotal to driving Bespoke Partners’ rapid growth and advancing its industry-leading executive recruiting process for private equity-backed software companies. She leads Bespoke’s CFO practice and has successfully placed executives for Thoma Bravo, Clearlake Capital, TA Associates and other top private equity firms. “Quaresma has established herself as an exceptional leader throughout her time at Bespoke,” says CEO Kristie Nova. “Not only has she been an outstanding

Alderwood Capital (Alderwood), a London-based fund manager, has appointed David Townsend to the role of Head of Investor Relations, further strengthening its rapidly growing team. In this newly created role, Townsend will lead the investor relations function. His responsibilities will encompass sourcing and securing capital for Alderwood’s investment capability through to developing enduring partnerships with distribution partners and institutional asset owners and their consultants.   Townsend brings over 28 years’ experience in institutional investor relations, marketing and sales to the role. He joins after four years at First Eagle Invesment Management where he was Senior Vice President and Head of

Wella Company (Wella), a specialist in the USD100 billion beauty industry with a top professional and retail hair, beauty tech  and nail portfolio of iconic brands including Wella Professionals, Clairol, OPI, Nioxin, Sebastian Professional and ghd, has appointed three diverse C-suite executives to its Leadership Team. Virginie Costa joins as Global Chief Financial Officer; one of only seven women in a pool of 25 CFOs leading global finance functions among the top 25 beauty companies. Gretchen Koback Pursel joins as Global Chief People Officer and Hugh Dineen joins as President of Global Brands and Global Chief Marketing Officer. The appointments,

Finverity, a mid-market supply chain finance platform with a focus on emerging markets, has appointed Brett Downes as its Chief Risk Officer. At Finverity, Downes will be in charge of overseeing the risk function, enhancing the risk management processes and contributing to the development of the platform’s risk functionality, putting his vast experience of trade and supply chain finance into action. The appointment comes at a time when growing investor interest in the attractive investment features of supply chain finance combined with Finverity’s robust and scalable processing technology platform are propelling Finverity to enter a growth phase in its development

Skyway Capital Markets has appointed Wes Chapman to its Advisory Board, a group of experts representing a broad spectrum of industries and who serve as advisors to the Skyway leadership team. Chapman is a pioneer in the incorporation of advanced quality systems – lean/six sigma and ISO – into medical clinical practice. He is an expert in medical quality and value-based care reimbursement systems, teaching these subjects at Dartmouth and Vanderbilt. Additionally, he has extensive experience in the development of real-world evidence in medical applications and all phases of clinical trials for both drugs and devices. He also has extensive

Joanna Scott, formerly BOOST&Co’s head of London and the east, has been promoted to managing director. Scott brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to the role, having worked for the independent asset manager for almost five years. A key part of Scott’s role will be cementing the lender’s reputation as a leading provider of term loans for UK SMEs, particularly fast-growing, high-tech firms. She will take on the day-to-day running of BOOST&Co’s front office in the UK and will help to inform the strategic direction of the business from a customer-facing perspective.   In addition, former principal Adam Brinn

Audax Private Equity-backed Global Nephrology Solutions (GNS), one of the largest physician-led and physician-owned kidney care platforms in the United States, has added six senior executives to its team. The expanded leadership team will accelerate the scaling of the company’s best-in-class kidney care delivery platform that puts nephrologists and patients at the centre of care. In January 2021, GNS announced a partnership with Audax Private Equity (Audax) when the platform included more than 315 providers and 700 employees providing the complete continuum of kidney care across 10 states to over 170,000 patients. The GNS value-based care delivery platform is driven

DWS has appointed Stephen Davies as Senior Principal in its London-based Infrastructure Investments team, reporting to Hamish Mackenzie, Head of Infrastructure. Davies’ responsibilities include leading the acquisition financing and refinancing of portfolio companies as well as managing the relationships with lending banks and other financing counterparts for DWS’s series of Pan-European Infrastructure Funds (PEIF).   Davies joins DWS with more than 15 years’ experience as a debt advisor in the infrastructure market, with expertise across the full spectrum of funding sources including bank debt, private placements, bonds, and green and ESG-linked financing. Most recently, Davies was an Executive Director at

CAIS, an alternative investment platform, has added Michelle Browning as its Director of Business Development for the CAIS IQ learning platform. Browning brings two decades of experience in financial services education to the role, having served in a variety of different roles ranging from advisor relations to sales leadership at Merrill Lynch, ATEL Capital Group, W P Carey Inc, AI Insight, and most recently Alternative Investment Exchange. Browning has also managed relationships across the entire wealth management ecosystem including advisors, broker dealers, and custodians. Browning says: “I share CAIS’s commitment to transform advisor education. With CAIS IQ, we have an