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Katey Bogue has joined eVestment, a global leader in institutional investor data and analytics, as Head of Private Markets. She will be responsible for leading the growth and development of eVestment’s private markets solutions.
This will include expanding eVestment’s private markets database and growing the company’s market intelligence, analytics and due diligence solutions for private markets general and limited partners.
Bogue (pictured), joins eVestment from Nasdaq, eVestment’s parent company, where she served as Head of Alternatives for Nasdaq Private Market. Her appointment illustrates the opportunities to share expertise and personnel between Nasdaq and eVestment that made eVestment an attractive
Michael Doppelt has rejoined middle-market private equity firm Irving Place Capital (IPC) as a Partner and Head of Fundraising and LP Relations.
Doppelt’s new role at IPC will focus on maintaining strong connections with current Limited Partners while expanding the firm’s relationships to include new institutional investors.
Doppelt previously worked for IPC from 2005 to 2010 as a Senior Managing Director, responsible for LP Relations and Business Development. Prior to recently rejoining IPC, he spent eight years as a Managing Director and Partner at Lightyear Capital, leading fundraising and Investor Relations, during which time the firm completed two target-exceeding
Mercury Capital Advisors, a global placement agent specializing in alternative investments, has appointed industry veteran, Reymundo Calcano, as Chief Financial Officer, effective immediately.
In his new role, Calcano (pictured), will report to Chief Executive Officer, Michael Ricciardi, and will lead the Mercury Capital Advisors’ finance team.
Calcano brings over 15 years of financial leadership and management experience to the Company. Prior to joining, Calcano served as Head of Finance and a member of the Executive Committee for Brevan Howard US. During his tenure at the firm, he worked as Finance and Operations Principal for Brevan Howard’s FINRA member broker-dealer
Intertrust in Jersey has appointed an experienced director in its Performance & Reward Management team.
Melissa McConnell joins Intertrust as a client director, heading up the Deferred Compensation team. She will manage a range of client portfolios, providing trustee and administration services to those clients that are required to defer their bonuses for regulatory or company specific reasons.
The team’s clients include asset managers, private equity companies, hedge funds, private companies and large listed companies. In addition to this, McConnell will develop the team’s service offering further and undertake business development.
McConnell has 16 years’ experience in offshore trust administration
Private markets asset management firm Hamilton Lane has made a number of firm-wide promotions, naming seven professionals to the title of Principal.
“We congratulate this group of individuals and recognise their contributions to the organisation. With promotions across the firm’s investment, product and strategic technology platforms, as well as our client service functions, we have enhanced our senior team to better serve our new and existing clients around the world,” says Mario Giannini (pictured), CEO of Hamilton Lane. “The last year has been one full of milestones for Hamilton Lane, and the continued development of our deep bench of talent
Canyon Bridge portfolio company Imagination Technologies (Imagination), a supplier of semiconductor intellectual property (IP), has confirmed that Dr Leo Li is to become the company’s Chief Executive Officer.
Li is Chairman of the Global Semiconductor Alliance and a well-known and respected figure in the semiconductor industry. He has over 30 years of semiconductor experience most recently as chairman, CEO and president of Spreadtrum Communications and chairman of RDA before becoming Co-President at Tsinghua Unigroup. During his nine-year tenure at Spreadtrum, Leo drove a focus on continuous innovation, quality control, and customer relationship management—helping grow revenue from USD100 million to USD2
Venture capital company Aster has appointed Jérome Joaug as a Principal.
Joaug, co-founder of Nymbly and Cambridge Nanosystems, and a digital transformation specialist, has joined the management company’s investment team, where he will be involved in selecting and supporting the most promising startups in the areas of mobility, energy and industry.
A graduate of the École Polytechnique and the University of Cambridge in 2012, Jérome Joaug co-founded Cambridge Nanosystems, a leader in the environmentally-friendly production of high-quality graphene which was sold in 2016. After this first foray into entrepreneurship at age 24, he was a business angel for several
Willkie Farr & Gallagher has appointed Mark Proctor as a partner in the Asset Management Group in the firm’s New York office.
Proctor advises private fund managers on structuring, establishing, and operating private investment funds, including blind pools, co-investment funds, pledge funds, and other investment vehicles. Mr. Proctor also represents fund managers on their internal structuring and compensation matters, and frequently advises clients in connection with co-investments and seed investments in asset managers, as well as buyers and sellers in secondary market transactions involving private fund interests and portfolios of assets held by private funds. Mr. Proctor’s practice extends beyond
Investcorp, a provider and manager of alternative investments, has appointed Jan Erik Back as Group Chief Financial Officer. Back will join Investcorp in the summer.
Back, who has more than 30 years of industry experience, the majority of which was in senior finance roles of financial services firms including SEB (Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB), Skandia and Handelsbanken, most recently served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of SEB, a leading Nordic financial services group providing retail and merchant banking, wealth management, and life insurance services to its corporate and institutional clients across international markets.
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Carlyle-Group-backed, third-party IT infrastructure maintenance specialist Evernex has appointed Stanislas Pilot as its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO).
Pilot, 48, an ENST engineer and MBA graduate from MIT, has previously served as COO of Arkadin, Group Leader at Capgemini Consulting, and Principal of Investments at Apax Partners.
Stanislas Pilot’s main mission will be to accelerate the company’s growth, both organic and external. In particular, he will oversee the successful roll-out of Evernex’s ambitious mergers and acquisitions programme. In addition, to guarantee the quality of customer service and optimisation of final results, Stanislas Pilot will actively undertake the implementation of
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