RealBlocks, an alternative investments platform that enables global distribution capabilities for fund managers, has appointed Seth Stuart as Head of Alternative Investment Product Solutions.  Stuart joins RealBlocks with more than 20 years of experience working in different capabilities from marketing to product development within the asset and wealth management industry, most recently at TD Ameritrade (a subsidiary of Charles Schwab) where he was responsible for the Alternative Investment Product Solutions practice.  “As a true investment product manager with deep experience developing and managing alternative investment product solutions, we are incredibly excited to have Seth join RealBlocks amid our rapid expansion,”

Moonfare, a digital investment platform for top-tier private markets funds, has added David Lindstrom to its Investment Committee. As a member of the Investment Committee, Lindstrom’s deep experience in private markets allocation and portfolio management will further Moonfare’s commitment to selecting the highest-quality funds.   With the Moonfare platform continuously growing to include a wider selection of private markets funds and cover new areas like private credit, Lindstrom’s cross–asset class expertise will add yet another filter to Moonfare’s exhaustive due diligence.   “We are excited and honoured to add David to the Moonfare Investment Committee,” says Moonfare founder and CEO

Secondary advisory firm Mozaic Capital Advisors has appointed Myra Choo as a Director.  Choo brings more than 10 years of experience across private equity investing, fundraising and investor relations, and will contribute her deal execution and marketing expertise to all aspects of the firm’s mandates.   Most recently, Choo led the San Francisco office of MVision Private Equity Advisers, responsible for West Coast investor relations. In that role, she advised on over USD2.5 billion of fundraisings. Prior to MVision, Myra served as an investor relations professional at Thomas H Lee Partners, where she focused on the firm’s Asia-based investor relationships.

Legal & General Capital (LGC) has appointed Peter Maher as Head of Venture Capital (VC) Investing, supporting the growth of its SME Growth Equity platform.  Within its VC platform, LGC now has 20 active funds under management, worth GBP230 million, having added five new funds to its portfolio over the last 12 months.   Through its SME Growth Equity platform, LGC has continued to invest in the real economy via start-up businesses in the UK and Europe. During a challenging time for smaller scale companies and newly formed businesses, LGC has remained committed to providing funding for over 300 companies,

Blackstar Capital, a specialist structured capital solutions provider, has appointed James Paul as Head of Sport. Blackstar Capital has leading expertise in origination, structuring, placement, and management of transactions globally. With Blackstar successfully making inroads into the sporting world in the past twelve months, Paul’s new role will see him lead the expansion of that sporting portfolio.   The pandemic has had a profound impact upon global sport, creating unique needs for clubs and franchises, and new opportunities for lenders. For specialist financiers, this depressed market is presenting both challenges and opportunities that Blackstar Capital is well-placed to take advantage

Matt Rupp has joined Troutman Pepper as a partner in the Corporate Practice Group. Most recently, Rupp served as a partner at McDermott Will & Emery. Rupp has spent more than 10 years counselling clients on a variety of corporate matters. He focuses his practice on representing private equity and other investment funds, private and public companies, and family offices in a wide variety of transactions, with an emphasis on mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, recapitalisations, restructurings, joint ventures, and general corporate counselling.   “Matt has significant complex M&A and private equity experience. As Troutman Pepper’s private equity group continues to grow,

IQ-EQ, a global investor services group, has made three senior appointments to its Group Technology team as part of an ongoing digital transformation journey. William Harris joins the group as Chief Digital Officer, Shezad Khan joins as Head of Data and Analytics and Vikas Sharma joins as Head of Engineering.   All three appointments are to newly created roles, signalling the expansion and strengthening of IQ-EQ’s Group Technology function as the firm makes strides towards fulfilling its group-wide strategic vision to become a global leader in innovative, technology-enabled services.    Harris is a highly qualified IT business strategy and technology

Hermitage Capital has appointed former JP Morgan investment banker Henry Zhang as President and Managing Partner. Zhang has over a decade of investment banking experience and held various senior positions at bulge bracket investment banks including Executive Director of Investment Banking Division at JP Morgan, responsible for investment banking in China’s transportation, logistics and enterprise technology sectors; Vice President and Operating Officer of China Investment Banking at Morgan Stanley; and Associate Director of Asia-Pacific Investment Banking Department at UBS. He has successfully led and participated in over 60 transactions with aggregate transaction value of over USD60 billion. Some of his

Praetura, a financial services group that provides ambitious companies with growth funding and support, has appointed Ben Davies as group marketing director and kickstarted its search for a video editor and copywriter to join the team. Davies joins the firm from Social Chain, one of Europe’s fastest-growing social media agencies, where he helped the agency to amass more than 80 million followers and reach 1.8 billion people every month. He was a core member of the team that saw Social Chain list on the Frankfurt stock exchange in 2019 and led a number of industry-first research projects that looked at

Veteran deal lawyer Jason K Zachary has joined Haynes and Boone, LLP as a partner in the firm’s Corporate Department and a member of the Capital Markets and Securities, Mergers & Acquisitions and Private Equity Practices.  Zachary will split time between the firm’s Denver and New York offices and will be an important part of the firm’s growth initiatives on the west coast.   Zachary regularly advises boards of directors and senior management of corporate clients, as well as private equity and venture capital investment funds and their portfolio companies in a range of complex business transactions and corporate governance