Clayton, Dubilier & Rice has appointed Bruno Deschamps, a seasoned executive with a distinguished career leading and advising both public and private industrial and services enterprises globally, as an Operating Advisor to CD&R funds. Deschamps is Chairman of the Board of Diversey (HQ: Charlotte, NC – USA), a specialist in hygiene & sanitation products, services, and solutions to the institutional and industrial markets. He also served as Chairman of the Advisory Board of Kloeckner Pentaplast (HQ: Montabaur, Germany), one of the world’s largest suppliers of films for pharmaceutical, medical devices, food, electronics, and general packaging.   Previously, Deschamps served as President

Accountancy and business advisory firm BDO has appointed a new international audit partner to join its expanding financial services team. Justin Chait  (pictured), joins BDO following 12 years at KPMG and specialises in asset management, property and fund administration companies.   With significant international experience, Justin moves to London from Cape Town as BDO continues to grow and invest in its financial services offering.   Chait says: “The UK is home to one of the most dynamic financial services industries in the world. The team at BDO understands the issues and regulatory pressures clients face and it has an exceptional

Private equity fund administrator Gen II Fund Services (Gen II) has appointed Edward Poletti as a Senior Advisor. Before joining Gen II, Ed spent twenty four years at Credit Suisse building and managing one of the world’s largest global alternative fund operations businesses.   In his role Ed will work closely with the Managing Principals, Norman Leben and Steven Millner advising on a wide range of operational and industry issues. “We are elated to add Ed to our team,” says Leben. “He is an expert in private equity fund accounting and operations, his depth of knowledge about the outsourcing model

Capricorn Private Investments (CPI) has appointed Manoj Soni as Chief Investment Officer. Manoj was formerly Managing Director and Head of Absolute Return and Credit at Partners Capital. CPI is the private investment office of the Capricorn Group, a family-owned global alternative asset manager.   Geoff Snelgar, Chairman of Capricorn, says; “The hiring of Manoj represents a key milestone in CPI’s growth. With Manoj’s arrival we are very well placed to execute CPI’s strategy of extending our offering to a select group of private investors with whom we are aligned in our goals, values and objectives.”   “With someone of Manoj’s calibre

OakNorth has appointed Amir Nooriala, former MD of BGC Partners, as its Chief Operating Officer. After graduating with a degree in Computer Science from the University of Nottingham, Amir Nooriala spent four years working in California for Cisco Systems as a system engineer, before returning to the UK to work for Accenture in its Global Technology Consulting division. In 2006, he joined Barclays Investment Bank, leaving a decade later as a Director running its Regulatory Technology divisions. Whilst there, he architected a programme whereby the operations and technology teams were combined into a single holistic service, enabling them to streamline

Aurelius Equity Opportunities, a pan-European mid-market investor, has made changes to its Executive Board. From 1 August 2018, Donatus Albrecht will look after the group-wide M&A strategy of all business areas of the Aurelius Group and will step down from the Executive Board of the listed Aurelius Equity Opportunities SE & Co. KGaA. Matthias Täubl, who has already been with Aurelius since 2008, will join the Executive Board with responsibility for operations at the same time.   These personnel changes are in response to the significant increase in the size of the Aurelius Group in recent years, which now has