British health technology company Visionable has appointed David Walker to the newly created position of Chief Commercial Officer (CCO), effective immediately. 

Shamrock Capital, an investment firm based in Los Angeles, has appointed David Simpson as a principal in the firm’s private equity team.   Simpson brings over 12 years of direct investing and advisory experience in the media, software, and services sectors.   “We are very excited to welcome David to our team,” says Steve Royer, partner of Shamrock Capital. “His transaction and investment experience in our target markets will be immediately accretive to the firm as we continue to pursue investments and work with managers to help them grow their businesses.”   Prior to joining Shamrock Capital, David was a

Eurazeo PME has supported UTAC CERAM’s acquisition of Millbrook, which is group headquartered in the UK. The investment of the funds managed by Eurazeo PME following this transaction amounts to cEUR115 million. Millbrook was founded in 1970 in the United Kingdom and provides services and systems for testing and validating vehicles to customers in the automotive, transport, tyre, petrochemicals and defence sectors, with a presence in three continents (in Europe, the United States and China). The company serves over 500 customers including some of the world’s largest vehicle, tyre and systems’ manufacturers such as Jaguar Land Rover, Bentley, Michelin, Volkswagen

DSW Debt Advisory – which advises businesses on raising a wide variety of debt funding and is part of the Dow Schofield Watts group – has appointed Lynn Li as Manager. Li joins from Deloitte in Manchester where, as part of the debt advisory team, she worked on a wide range of financing deals including cross-border transactions with a value of over GBP200 million. A chartered financial analyst with a master’s degree in finance and investment, Lynn has seven years’ experience in finance and started her career with RBS in London. Lynn, who grew up in Spain, speaks fluent Spanish, Mandarin

Squire Patton Boggs has further expanded its Global Corporate Practice in London with the appointment of partner Julian Thatcher.  Thatcher joins the firm from private equity (PE) investment firm MHMK Capital Group, where he was an executive in a sub-Saharan African PE fund carrying out transactional and legal work alongside origination and business development. He was previously at Macfarlanes LLP. Thatcher’s practice is focused on PE and M&A, primarily in Africa and the UK. He has advised on transactions throughout Africa as well as the UK, across a number of industries including logistics, financial services, fin-tech and infrastructure, and has

Edmond de Rothschild Real Estate Investment Management (REIM) has appointed Robbert Bakhuijsen as Head of Investment for Benelux.  Reporting to Onno Scheij, Head of Benelux, Bakhuijsen, 37, will be responsible for the sourcing and execution of new acquisitions in the Benelux region. Bakhuijsen will be mainly focusing on acquisitions of income-generating logistics, light industrial and office assets, from core to value-add in terms of risk profile, as well as development projects to serve Edmond de Rothschild REIM’s discretionary funds and third-party mandates.  Bakhuijsen has worked in the Benelux real estate market for 15 years. He previously worked for six years

Pollen Street Capital (Pollen Street) has appointed Hugh Cutler as Head of Business Development. Cutler brings a wealth of expertise to Pollen Street with 25 years of experience in investment management, capital raising and delivering client solutions across a broad range of public and private market strategies.    Prior to joining the team, Cutler led global distribution for Affiliated Managers Group, where he helped to grow the platform into new product lines, client types and geographies. Hugh previously held senior distribution and solutions roles at Och-Ziff, LGIM and Barclays Global Investors.    Lindsey McMurray, Managing Director at Pollen Street, says:

Alternative investment manager Oxford Capital has appointed Alexander (Sandy) Flockhart as Non-Exec Director on the Board of Oxford Capital Partners Holdings Limited. In addition, Flockhart sits as an independent member of the investment committee of the firm. He brings to the role broad experience in investment management, financial services, regulatory affairs and governance.  His appointment follows the retirement of Sir Martin Smith, who stepped down as a director earlier in 2020 and remains a senior adviser to the firm.   Flockhart has had a long career in financial services spanning private equity and international banking. He served in a number

Livingbridge Private Equity-backed Three Rock Group has appointed Matthew Donaldson as Chairman.  Donaldson’s appointment marks an acceleration of Three Rocks strategic ambition to widen their reach within existing personal lines sector and expand their portfolio of complimentary financial services products. Three Rock Group is comprised of Chill Insurance, Irelands largest independent personal lines distribution platform,  Chill Money and Ivernia, a captive MGA.   Donaldson has extensive experience in the Financial Services and Insurance sector, most recently as Group CEO of BGL Group, the leading digital distributor of Insurance and Household Financial Services in the UK and France. In his early

Alternative asset management firm Hayfin has appointed Daniel Bird as a Portfolio Manager for Private Credit. Bird was previously a Managing Director at Bank of America where he successfully built and grew a global credit and special situations group in EMEA.   At Hayfin, Bird will be based in London and will focus on sourcing and analysing investment opportunities and providing portfolio management across the private credit strategies.   He joins the other Portfolio Managers for Hayfin’s private credit business, who include Mark Bickerstaffe, Mikhael Botbol, Fabrice Damien, Cecile Ferrie-Davies, Olaf Hartmann, Kamran Hussain, Carlos Pla and Stefano Questa.