Cairngorm Capital has promoted Alex Bayliss and John Naylor-Leyland to Managing Director. This is in recognition of their significant contributions to the growth and success that Cairngorm Capital has achieved since its formation in 2014. It also marks the expansion of Cairngorm Capital’s senior leadership team. Bayliss and Naylor-Leyland were founding members of Cairngorm Capital’s investment team, joining Managing Partner, Andrew Steel, shortly after the successful close of Cairngorm Capital’s first fund in August 2015. Together they have been instrumental in defining and implementing the firm’s growth and buy and build investment strategies. They have led or overseen the majority

Z Capital Group, an alternative asset manager focused on opportunistic, value-oriented private equity and credit funds, has announced a raft of promotions across the company’s Private Equity Investment and Operations teams. Stephen Parsons, has been added to the Management Committee as an ad hoc member. Since joining Z Capital in 2016, Parsons has served as an Operating Partner, assisting in the management and oversight of portfolio company initiatives, including leading the development and implementation of human capital strategies across all portfolio companies.   Matthew Kane, has been promoted to Managing Director. Kane is responsible for advising on and executing value-oriented

Pantheon has appointed two senior professionals, Justin Mallis and Michael Hutten, as Principals in its Europe and the US teams. Mallis joins as Global Head of Project Management in the Client Service team, based in London, where he will centralise and coordinate fundraising for Pantheon’s institutional strategies.   This is a new function, and it reflects the continued global expansion and growth of the business across investment strategies and clients.   “Justin brings valuable external experience from a similar role at a global placement agent, alongside deep experience from working at various US pension consultants, specialising in alternatives. Given this

EQUI, a cryptocurrency-powered investment platform that opens up venture capital to a wider audience and provides high-tech innovators and entrepreneurs a new route to investment, has added investor Duncan MacInnes to its Advisory Board. MacInnes has extensive business and investment experience having founded his first business in his teens, exiting in his early twenties. This experience enables him to identify promising early stage startups and make successful investments. He has been an early stage backer of some of the greatest technology success stories of our time, including Facebook and Deliveroo.     MacInnes has been brought in to compliment the skills

Invesco is expanding its Invesco Private Capital business with the appointment of Carl Stanton as a Managing Partner and Head of Private Equity.  In this newly created role, Stanton will broaden the scope of the firm’s existing private equity focus to include opportunistic buyouts and special situations. As part of the expansion the domestic activities of the firm’s WL Ross & Co unit have been rolled into Stanton’s group.   Stanton is an industry veteran with over 20 years of experience leading private equity investments and managing private equity teams.  Prior to joining Invesco Private Capital, he was a managing partner

Old Mutual Alternative Investments (OMAI), Africa’s largest private alternative investment manager, has appointed Mr Zomunoda (Zom) Chizura as Head of the Impact Funds team. The Impact Funds team manages funds targeted specifically for affordable housing, access to quality education and promoting SMME businesses.   Between the years 2014 to 2017, Zom was Chief Executive Officer of Old Mutual West Africa based in Lagos, Nigeria from where he led the roll out of the Old Mutual brand and client solutions in the retail and corporate markets in Ghana and Nigeria. In this role, he was also central to the strengthening and

ORIX Mezzanine & Private Equity (OMPE), a business unit of Dallas-based ORIX USA, has appointed Zoltan Berty as a Managing Director. Bringing over 25 years of transactional experience across multiple industries and diversified markets, Berty will be primarily responsible for business development and investment activities in the Western United States. Based in Newport Beach, California, his emphasis will be providing equity to independent sponsors on buyout transactions, while also working with funded equity sponsors, family offices, and directly with entrepreneurs and management teams.   Prior to joining ORIX USA, Berty served as Managing Director for Gladstone Capital Corporation, where he

International law firm Proskauer has appointed transactional lawyers Don Melamed and Albert W Stemp as partners in the firm’s Los Angeles office. Their arrival follows a number of high-profile additions to the Firm’s private investment fund and real estate offerings globally, including private equity real estate partners Joanne Owen and Vikki McKay, real estate finance partner Paul Lucas in London, and private investments funds partner Monica Arora in New York.   “We are delighted to welcome Don and Al to the Firm. Proskauer has been a trusted advisor to the real estate and private investment fund industries for decades, and