Vengture capital fund MMC has announced two new partner appointments alongside another four promotions.

bfinance, an independent investment consultancy, has appointed former LGPS investor Trevor Castledine as Senior Director, Private Markets. Joining the private markets team at bfinance’s London office, Castledine brings over twenty-five years’ experience in financial services, pensions and investments. Castledine was formerly Deputy CIO and Private Credit Investment Director at LPP (Local Pensions Partnership), and prior to that was Deputy CIO at Lancashire County Pension Fund. He has won multiple awards and commendations for his work including LAPF Investments Awards “Investment Strategy of the Year” 2015, Professional Pensions Awards “Best Use of Alternatives” 2015, Institutional Investor Peer-to-Peer Awards “Best Use of Private

Specialist fixed income manager, BlueBay Asset Management (BlueBay), has appointed Stephan Eckstein to the newly created role of Sales Director.Based in Zurich, Eckstein reports to Roberto Valsecchi Oliva, Head of Switzerland and Southern Europe and will be responsible for developing BlueBay’s presence with wholesale investors in the region. Stephan’s appointment continues to bolster BlueBay’s Swiss presence, following the appointments of Renato Aebi and Marc-Hendrik Berthold in 2018.   Valsecchi Oliva says: “Stephan is a very experienced senior sales individual who I believe will be integral in driving and further developing our Swiss wholesale presence. Stephan’s appointment highlights BlueBay’s strong commitment

Clearwater International has opened a new office in Yorkshire as the business continues to grow its national and international footprint.The new office in Leeds will be headed by recently appointed Partner Richard Goldsack who joins Clearwater International with 19 years’ experience in the corporate finance industry. Having previously worked at Grant Thornton and Ernst & Young in the UK and Australia, Richard has advised on over 50 deals across owner-managed businesses, large corporates, and private equity.  Director, Glenn Clarke, who joined Clearwater International over a year ago will lead the Leeds Debt Advisory team. Since joining the business, Glenn has

Evercore has appointed Joe Todd as a managing director in the firm’s Investment Banking business. Todd will focus on advising large, multinational companies across a range of industries and will team with other Senior Managing Directors to develop new business and to execute complex client advisory assignments. He will be based in New York. Todd was most recently a Partner in the M&A Group at Goldman Sachs. During his 20 years at Goldman Sachs, Todd advised over 100 large multinational companies on their most complicated and strategic M&A and capital markets transactions. Todd is particularly known for his pre-eminent experience leading

Boyden, a global talent advisory and leadership solutions firm has named Anita Pouplard, a Managing Partner of Boyden France, as the leader of its new Global Private Equity & Venture Capital Practice, effective immediately.Pouplard, a trusted advisor to the C-suite and boards, has completed numerous international search assignments over the past 20 years. A large share of her client work is in fast-growing sectors with large volumes in investment by PE and VC firms in technology, digital transformation, SaaS, Internet of Things, fintech and cleantech/greentech. “Anita was our board’s unanimous choice to lead our Global Private Equity and Venture Capital

Clayton, Dubilier & Rice has appointed Harsh Agarwal as a Principal on its investment team. Agarwal, who is based in the Firm’s New York office, is principally engaged in evaluating and executing investments in the software and technology-enabled services sectors.Prior to CD&R, Agarwal spent nine years at EQT Partners in New York and TPG Capital in San Francisco, where he focused on transactions in the technology and media sectors. He began his career in the Technology, Media and Telecom group of the investment banking division of Goldman Sachs & Co.   Agarwal earned an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School

Private equity specialist Jonathan Blake has joined Herbert Smith Freehills in London as the head of international private funds strategy.In this role, Blake will advise clients on their private funds requirements, drawing together the firm’s existing capabilities and experience, as well as generating new client opportunities through his network of private equity, real estate, infrastructure, credit, venture capital and secondaries managers. His recruitment marks a major milestone in the development of Herbert Smith Freehills’ investment funds practice.  “Our private funds offering has grown rapidly in the last 10 years or so to cover more private funds work in private equity,

Nexxus has appointed Christianne Ibañez as head of Investor Relations. Ibañez has extensive experience in the financial sector having served in senior IR positions. She was previously Vesta’s Investor Relations Director, where she participated in the financial reconfiguration of the company. Ibañez prevously was also on ICA’s Finance and Investor Relations team.  Nexxus says: “We are confident that Christianne’s experience and professionalism will provide great benefits to the Nexxus’ diverse IR activities.”