Gregory Baker has joined Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler as a Partner in the firm’s Litigation department. Baker will serve as Chair of the Firm’s Securities Litigation practice and will be a member of the White Collar Defense and Investigations group. Read the full story at Hedgeweek…

CIL Management Consultants has promoted 22 of its client-facing staff, across both its UK and US offices.  The move follows a year of rapid growth for the firm, having experienced an almost 40 per cent year-on-year rise in the number of engagements served. Mike Hallett has been promoted to Associate Director within CIL’s technology practice, having joined the firm in 2014. He has demonstrated deep expertise across the technology sector, with recent clients including managed and cloud service providers, software vendors (HCM, ERP, CRM, security), digital transformation consultancies, retail tech providers, contact centre providers, internet service providers, security vendors and data

Blippar, a leading augmented reality (AR) technology company, has appointed Dahlia Basar, Mark McDonagh, and Patrick Timoney to its executive team, with Basar joining as Strategic Partnerships Director, McDonagh as Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), and Timoney joining as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Basar joins Blippar with over 18 years of experience leading commercial and strategic partnerships globally, across roles that include tech giants Google and YouTube. As the Global Strategic Partnerships lead for YouTube, she oversaw integrating the UK team with global teams within Google and Alphabet, and drove partnership scheme development at scale. As Google Grants/Non-Profit Lead she built

Blackstone has appointed Courtney della Cava as Senior Managing Director and Global Head of Talent & Leadership for its Portfolio Operations Group, effective 1 August. In this role, della Cava will be responsible for building and enhancing executive leadership teams and boards for Blackstone’s more than 200 portfolio companies. She joins the firm from Bain & Company, where she was a Partner in its Leadership and Talent Practice based in San Francisco. Jennifer Morgan, Global Head of Portfolio Operations, says: “Making sure our portfolio companies have best-in-class talent is one of the most important ways we can help them accelerate

Alterra Capital Partners, an Africa-focused private equity firm that was spun out of Carlyle in 2020, is being joined by Bryce Fort and Paul Maasdorp, Partners at Emerging Capital Partners (ECP), to launch a new African investment vehicle. The Alterra leadership team will be: Bryce Fort, Eric Kump, Paul Maasdorp, Genevieve Sangudi and Bruce Steen. Over the last ten years, the combined team has invested cUSD2 billion across a variety of sectors in Africa including telecoms, technology, healthcare, consumer & retail, infrastructure, financial services, logistics and business services. The Partners of Alterra have an average of 12 years of Africa

Permira, a global private equity firm, has appointed Mark Garrett as a Senior Advisor, focusing on growth technology investments. Garrett brings nearly 40 years of experience in technology, accounting and financial management, with a successful track record in executive leadership and transforming high-growth technology companies. He served most recently as Adobe’s Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, where he led the company’s worldwide finance, operations and corporate development activities. He helped guide Adobe through the fastest transition to a cloud-based subscription model among companies in the software industry.   Prior to Adobe, Garrett held senior leadership positions at Documentum

Investec Growth & Leveraged Finance (Investec) has made two new appointments to its team, as it continues to bring in new external talent. Tim van Heusden joins from ABN Amro, where he spent seven years and was an Associate Director in the bank’s leveraged finance arm in Amsterdam. Van Heusden will create additional bandwith and focus on the bank’s lending abilities in the Benelux alongside Alexandre Neiss, who has spearheaded Investec’s lending in the region since 2014. Fred Kinsman joins from Deloitte’s private equity debt advisory team, and prior to that spent five years at Commonwealth Bank, working in the

As part of its wider strategic growth programme Enterprize Energy has bolstered its experienced specialist and diverse teams with the hiring of three senior financial executives. Nuta Chen has been appointed Chief Financial Officer, based in Taiwan. David Houlton joins in the role of Business Advisor and Economic Modeller and Woon Soon as Financial Consultant. The trio join during an upward trajectory in the company’s growth and will play key roles in its mission to provide nations and communities with a clean, renewable, and independent energy future.   Chen brings nearly two decades of experience in Taiwan and Thailand’s renewable