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Pappas Capital, an investor in early-stage life sciences companies, has promoted Kyle Rasbach, PhD, PharmD to a Managing Partner of Pappas Ventures, the firm’s venture capital business.
In his new role, Dr Rasbach will help to oversee Pappas Ventures and lead fundraising and investment efforts for its future venture funds. Pappas Capital also announced that Matthew Boyer has been named Chief Financial Officer, succeeding Ford Worthy who will continue with the firm as a Partner and Senior Advisor.
“Kyle’s extensive healthcare equity investment and operating experience, coupled with his proven leadership skills, make him the ideal executive to help
BGF has expanded its London team with the appointment of Rowan Bird as an investor. Bird joins from the M&A team at Lazard where he spent three years working as an Investment Banking analyst, specialising in basic industries and the natural resources sector.
Bird’s role at BGF will involve all aspects of the investment process from building relationships with business owners, supporting opportunities through BGF’s investment process and actively working alongside a number of portfolio companies post completion.
BGF has invested more than GBP370 million across 54 businesses based in London since it was set up in 2011. Recent investments include
PMM Group, an alternative asset manager specialising in real estate & real estate debt, has appointed Richard Collins as Chief Operating Officer (COO), a newly created position.
Collins, who joins the firm as its seventh equity partner, will also be a director of PMM’s mortgage servicing business, Hampton Mortgage Servicing Limited.
Collins was formerly Chief Operating Officer and an equity partner at Europa Capital, the pan European real estate fund manager. During his 12 years with Europa, he helped to grow and diversify the business from solely real estate private equity into real estate debt, student accommodation and real
Hetherley Capital Partners (Hetherley) has appointed three Senior Executives to its leadership team as it continues its expansion in the UK hotel real estate sector.
Stephane Lalou joins Hetherley as Executive Vice President, responsible for the commercial development of the business. Previously with private equity investor EQ Group and family office MBI Holdings (owner of JJW Hotels & Resorts), Lalou joins the team with more than 20 years’ experience in hotel investment, operations and asset management. He will lead the strategic development of the firm’s managed estate portfolio and contribute to the growth of Hetherley’s capital partner base.
In addition,
SouthStar Urgent Care, a provider of urgent care services and clinics in Louisiana and portfolio company of Shore Capital Partners (Shore Capital), a lower middle market healthcare private equity firm, has appointed Laura Miller as President and Chief Operating Officer of the Company.
This leadership change, supported by the SouthStar Urgent Care Board of Directors, took effect in spring of 2019. Former Chief Executive Officer Clayt Hulin will continue to support SouthStar Urgent Care’s mission as an Executive Advisor.
Miller joined the SouthStar team in November 2018 as Chief Operating Officer. Miller brings more than 20 years of executive
MidOcean Partners (MidOcean), a New York-based alternative asset manager that specialises in middle market private equity and alternative credit investments, has appointed Dana Carey as Chief Investment Officer (CIO).
Previously, Carey spent six years at Apollo Global Management where he served as Partner in Credit and Global Co-Head of the Performing Credit business.
“Dana brings a wealth of credit investing experience to MidOcean,” says Ted Virtue, CEO of MidOcean. “We are thrilled to add Dana’s talent to the leadership of MidOcean Credit Partners, complementing the senior team around which we have built our business since its launch in 2009.”
Global Jet Capital, a specialist in financial solutions for business aircraft, has appointed Stefan Abbruzzese as Chief Commercial Officer. As head of the worldwide originations team, Abbruzzese will lead market facing activities focused on the development of new business.
Dave Labrozzi has been appointed to the role of Vice Chairman at Global Jet Capital. In this new role, he will provide broad support for the business with a focus on strengthening the originations team across all channels and geographies, including reinforcing key long-term strategic relationships with industry partners, the OEMs, and existing and prospective clients.
Abbruzzese joins Global Jet
Philip Duffy and Sarah Bell, both of Duff & Phelps, have been appointed Interim Managers of Northern Powerhouse Developments Limited effective Sunday 7 July 2019.
The court order followed the appointment of both Duffy and Bell as Interim Managers of MBI Hawthorn Care Limited, MBI Clifton Moor Limited and Afan Valley Limited (“the Companies”), which took place on Friday 5 July 2019.
The appointment follows an application with the high court in London by seven investors who had invested in the Companies owned by Gavin Woodhouse. The appointment will enable the Interim Managers to secure the assets of the Company
SANNE, a global provider of alternative asset and corporate services, has further extended its global reach with the opening of a new office in Mumbai, India.
With existing offices in 18 leading international finance centres, SANNE now has a local presence in one of the world’s fastest growing alternative markets and is also pleased to announce the appointment of Khushboo Chopra (pictured) as Head of Business Development – India.
The opening of this new office expands SANNE’s already strong network of offices across the EMEA, Asia-Pacific and Americas region and adds further capability and scope to the services SANNE
Drooms, a provider of secure cloud solutions, has appointed Johannes Brennecke as General Manager of North America to lead the company’s expansion in the US.
Based in New York City, Brennecke will report to Steffen Schaack, Senior Vice President Global Business Development.
Brennecke has a long track record in strategic business development. In his previous role as Vice President of Alternative Coverage Real Estate at DWS Alternatives GmbH (DWS Group), he was responsible for the development of fund products across the real estate industry and taking forward DWS Group’s international digitalisation strategy. As part of his remit as funds
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