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LDC, a mid-market private equity house, has further strengthened its proposition in Birmingham with the appointment of a new Investment Director.
Phil Hinson joins LDC’s now 11-strong investment team in the Midlands from PKF Cooper Parry, bringing twenty years of relevant experience to the firm.
In his new role, Hinson will be responsible for identifying potential investment opportunities, leading transactions and supporting LDC’s portfolio of investment companies backed by the Midlands’ team.
Hinson was previously a Partner at PKF Cooper Parry’s Midlands-based corporate finance team, with responsibility for deal origination and leading client engagements across the region. A
General Atlantic, a global growth equity firm, has appointed Vittorio Colao as a Special Advisor. Colao, former Group Chief Executive of international communications company Vodafone Group, will advise General Atlantic and its portfolio companies as the firm continues to execute on its global growth investing strategy.
During his over 20-year tenure with Vodafone Group, 10 of which he served as Group Chief Executive, Colao held numerous executive positions and led its significant growth into one of the largest telecommunications groups in the world. He played a central role in the transition of Vodafone from a consumer-focused mobile operator to an
Gresham House, a specialist alternative asset manager, has appointed Catriona Buckley as Institutional Business Development Director, effective 1 July 2019.
Buckley has over 15 years’ experience building relationships and developing new business opportunities with global institutional investors.
She joins Gresham House from Fidelity International, where she was responsible for manager research and field consultant engagement with global and domestic investment consultants in the UK, and for direct client relationships in Ireland. More latterly, Buckley held the position of Investment Director in the Fixed Income team at Fidelity working with global distribution channels to define and execute commercial strategy.
Before joining
Target Partners has appointed Wolfram Drescher as Venture Partner. The successful founder and CEO has over 20 years of experience in establishing and managing deep-tech companies in Silicon Saxony.
“Since my very first start-up experience, I’ve enjoyed partnering with ambitious entrepreneurs who are willing to disrupt industries with radically new technologies that impact our daily lives. I’m excited about the prospect of supporting and enabling founders to realise their visions,” says Drescher.
Drescher co-founded and led Dresden-based Airrays and previously co-founded Systemonic which was acquired by Philips, as well as Blue Wonder Communications which was acquired by Infineon and later
Monarch Private Capital (MPC), an investment firm that develops, finances, and manages a diversified portfolio of projects that generate federal and state tax credits, has promoted Ian Chomat to Chief Financial Officer (CFO).
Chomat moves into the role after serving as the Controller.
“One of Monarch’s key attributes is our talent. Ian’s arrival was part of a concerted effort to bring in top talent with experience to grow and expand our position in the industry,” says MPC Co-CEO and Managing Director of Tax Credit Investments George Strobel. “The structure and discipline that Ian has brought to MPC’s financing and accounting
Global credit specialist CIFC, which launched a European office in London last year, has completed the first phase of its UK research team recruitment with the appointment of its fourth analyst.
Senior Analyst Rinse Terpstra has joined from Chenavari Investment Managers where he worked as a senior investment analyst focusing on CLOs. He has more than 12 years of leveraged loan and high yield credit experience in Western and Central Eastern Europe as well as Turkey.
Analyst Zoltan Paller has joined from UBS where he focused on leveraged finance and direct lending opportunities in the EMEA region. Prior to
Partech has appointed Paul Vider as Principal for the firm’s Growth Fund, which has completed five financings in high-growth disruptive companies in Europe in the past 18 months alone.
Deals include: Exporo, a digital real estate investment platform in Germany; Berlin-based Urban Sports Club currently experiencing triple digit growth; Evaneos, a multiday tour marketplace in Europe in which Partech led a EUR70 million investment round in June 2018; and NA-KD.com, which has rapidly scaled to over SEK1 billion in revenues since Partech’s investment in January 2018.
The wider Partech Growth portfolio recorded an average annual revenue growth rate of
Chiltern Capital (Chiltern) has appointed Ed Ransome as a partner in the firm’s investment team.
Ransome joins from Endless LLP, where he spent eight years in London, Manchester and Leeds sourcing and leading on a number of investments across a range of sectors, including TMT, business services, industrials and consumer. He began his career at KPMG in the Midlands and Yorkshire.
Tom Phipps, Partner, says “We are delighted to have Ed on board. As well as being well known in the market as a deal doer and having considerable experience of working closely alongside management teams in order to create
CloudScale Capital Partners has appointed industry veteran and former CTO of British Telecom (BT), Williams Communications and Huawei, Matt Bross as a Partner.
“We are excited to welcome Matt to our team,” says Stephen Diamond, managing partner of CloudScale Capital Partners. “He brings a wealth of experience working with startups, mentoring entrepreneurs, driving innovation and helping to build great tech leaders worldwide.”
Bross joins a veteran team of technology investors at CloudScale that includes Dr Hossein Eslambolshi, long-time former Global Chief Technology Officer of AT&T and Bell Labs, Michael Howard, Co-founder of Infonetics Research, Stephen Diamond, former General Partner with
RedRidge Diligence Services has appointed Tom McClay to its New York office as Director. McClay will be responsible for providing buy-side and sell-side financial due diligence services for private equity groups, investment banks and corporate clients in North East USA.
McClay has extensive experience in financial due diligence, transaction structuring, deal negotiation and post-transaction assistance, having held a number of senior roles within the financial services space. Most recently, McClay served as Director at Grant Thornton LLP where, among other responsibilities, he supervised buy and sell-side financial due diligence.
McClay’s appointment marks a significant step forward in the company’s
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