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Bregal Partners, a private equity investment firm focused on the middle market, has appointed Katey Kalvelage as Director of Ecommerce. Kalvelage will focus on leading digital growth across the portfolio companies in the consumer, food, and specialty retail space.
Kalvelage has over 12 years of experience in the digital space including managing the ecommerce business at retail brands such as Burberry, La Perla, Bottega Veneta, Elie Tahari, and Sandro Maje Claudie Pierlot (SMCP). Most recently, she served as a senior digital consultant to leading companies in a variety of industries such as cosmetics, jewellery, auto parts, memorabilia and home furnishings. In these
Monroe Capital has appointed Stewart Hanlon as Managing Director in its San Francisco office. He will co-lead the firm’s technology vertical alongside Mark Solovy.
“We are very excited to add Stewart to the Monroe Capital originations team,” says Tom Aronson, Managing Director & Head of Originations of Monroe Capital. “Stewart has an accomplished career of over seven years providing financing solutions to middle-market companies and brings with him many great relationships and a wide range of experience across the technology industry.”
“He will help us continue to grow our robust direct origination platform that we have built throughout the
NorthEdge Capital has promoted Ray Stenton as Joint Managing Partner as part of several key promotions at the firm, which has continued to grow funds under management during 2018.
Stenton has played the leading role for all of NorthEdge’s new investment activity, investing over GBP380 million in 28 companies since the final close of NorthEdge Capital Fund I in March 2013. He will work alongside Grant Berry in running the firm on a day-to-day basis.
Keven Parker, who joined NorthEdge in Spring 2018, has been promoted to Partner and Head of Portfolio. Keven brings a wealth of experience from
Greenberg Traurig has expanded its Corporate and Investment Funds practices with the addition of Petros (Peter) L Tsirigotis as shareholder in its Washington, DC and New York City offices.
Tsirigotis joins from Stradley Ronon, where he was co-chair of the firm’s Private Investment Funds Practice. Before that, he served as senior vice president at Brown Brothers Harriman & Company, where he led the investment management funds risks, operations, and governance group.
Tsirigotis advises financial institutions, asset managers, investment advisers, and institutional investors, helping them to develop and maintain financial products while navigating the regulatory landscape. He has served in
Boutique asset manager Unigestion has strengthened its cross-asset solutions team with the recent appointments of Salman Baig and Joshua Seager as investment managers.
Baig joined Unigestion earlier this year from Bridgewater Associates, where he was an Investment Associate & Engineer focussing on fundamental macroeconomic research, portfolio construction and risk management. Prior to Bridgewater, he was a Post-Doctoral Researcher in the mathematics department at the University of Washington and a member of the Research Team at the Institute for Defense Analyses in the US. Baig holds a Bachelors’ in Mathematics and a Masters in Finance from Princeton University and a PhD
Framework, a global solutions vendor for Private Equity (PE) and Real Estate (RE) investments, has appointed Alan Naughton as the company’s Chief Executive Officer.
Naughton brings with him more than 30 years of global banking and investment servicing experience acquired in multiple geographic locations in leading financial institutions. Most recently, Alan was head of Standard Chartered Bank’s securities services and corporate agency and trust business, based in Singapore, having joined in 2012 from JPMorgan in London where he had been Head of Commercial Management for the Global Funds Division since 2008.
Launched in 2000, Framework provides enterprise investment accounting
Schroders has diversified its Solutions business with the appointment of a dedicated private assets investment specialist.
Ped Phrompechrut has joined as a Solutions Manager, a new role, based in London. He will report into Neil Walton, Head of Investment Solutions.
Ped will work with clients globally to provide investment strategy and portfolio construction advice, with a particular focus on delivering private market solutions. He was previously a Director at Willis Towers Watson where he was Head of Private Market Solutions. In this role, Ped oversaw the full private asset class spectrum, including private equity, real estate, infrastructure and
Yukon Partners (Yukon) has appointed Elliot Lynch as a Vice President in its investment team.
Lynch’s responsibilities will include working with the Yukon team on overall investment activities. He will provide leadership in the areas of evaluation, due diligence, and portfolio investment monitoring.
William Dietz, Managing Partner at Yukon says: “Elliot brings a wealth of investment experience that will further our core strategy at Yukon. We are excited to have Elliot as a member of the Yukon team and confident he will provide the high level of stewardship that our industry relationships expect from Yukon.”
Prior to joining
Investcorp has appointed Sir Michael Fallon, a British Member of Parliament and former Secretary of State for Defence, to the firm’s International Advisory Board.
Fallon has served as a British Member of Parliament for more than three decades. He has held a number of senior governmental leadership roles, most notably serving as Secretary of State for Defence from 2014-2017. In this role he had overall responsibility for the British armed forces and managed a GBP35 billion annual budget. Sir Michael has also served as Schools Minister under both Margaret Thatcher and John Major, and Business and Energy Minister under David
BTIG has hired JT Herman as Head of Mergers and Acquisitions within its Investment Banking division. Herman will be based in San Francisco.
“We are pleased to welcome JT to the firm. He is an accomplished industry veteran with significant expertise and a successful track record for deal completions,” says Scott Kovalik, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of BTIG. “JT has a vision and business plan to build out a full-scale mergers and acquisitions team, bringing key specialists to our Investment Banking division. The new team he is creating is crucial to complete our product offering for corporate clients.”
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