Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) has appointed Gavin Rees as market manager on its global fund banking team in the UK. The team serves private equity and venture capital funds with banking services and customised financing.   SVB banks businesses such as Momondo, Darktrace, ReceiptBank and Made.com.   Rees has over 25 years of commercial banking experience, of which 11 years were focused on funds finance and seven years on structured finance. He joins Silicon Valley Bank from Barclays, where he led the European private equity funds team. Before that, he was a founder member of WestLB’s funds finance group in

Monomoy Capital Partners, a private equity firm focused on value investing and business improvement in the middle market, has appointed Ashley Johansen as a managing director and head of investor relations and fundraising.  Johansen will help Monomoy develop an investor relations programme designed to enhance and expand the firm’s partnership with investors.   Johansen has over 17 years of experience in marketing and communications in the financial services sector and seven years of experience raising capital for private equity. She spent 10 years of her career at Coller Capital, where she helped institutionalise the business, build out the firm’s global

Harwood Capital Group has launched a new investment business to complement its existing portfolio of companies. The group has identified a significant gap in the current market and believes that investors are increasingly looking for long term, unconstrained, concentrated opportunities to invest in publicly listed small to medium sized quoted companies.   The new business (which is subject to the requisite regulatory approvals being granted) will be chaired by former HgCapital chief executive officer Ian Armitage, who has more than three decades’ industry experience in private equity and is currently chairman of The Key and non-executive director of Tenzing Private

Emlen Harmon has joined JMP Securities as a managing director and equity research analyst following regional banks. He is based in the firm’s New York office.   Earlier this month, Harmon initiated coverage of nine companies: Associated Banc-Corp; BancorpSouth, Inc. First Horizon National Corporation; First Republic Bank; Hancock Holding Company; IBERIABANK Corporation; Synovus Financial Corp; Texas Capital Bancshares, Inc; and Zions Bancorporation.   “Emlen is an important addition to our financial services franchise,” says Tom Wright, director of equities at JMP Securities. “He is well regarded by institutional investors, and his research on regional banks will significantly expand JMP’s coverage

Telecommunications expert Ralf Gerbershagen will be supporting the senior adviser board of Clearwater International, a globally active corporate finance house focusing on mid-market transactions, with immediate effect. Gerbershagen, 54, has decades of management experience in the international telecommunications industry as well as a network of business contacts in the digital industry.    “We are pleased to welcome Mr Ralf Gerbershagen as senior adviser and member of our exclusive senior adviser board, which now has 25 members. Clearwater International will benefit from his great experience in the TMT sector and his extensive network,” says Axel Oltmann, managing partner at Clearwater International.

Idinvest Partners has appointed Alban Wyniecki as an investment director. Wyniecki will provide strategic direction and oversight of Idinvest’s Growth Capital Fund II, which recently held its first close at EUR250 million.   The fund’s first investment this year was in Vestiaire Collective, an online e-commerce marketplace for pre-loved clothes.   “We are very much looking forward to Alban joining the Growth team here at Idinvest,” says Benoist Grossmann, managing partner at Idinvest. “We are currently seeing a good amount of opportunity for European companies looking to scale-up, particularly in the tech sector and where Alban brings a huge amount

Cambridge Innovation Capital (CIC) has appointed Michael Anstey as an investment director specialising in healthcare investments. Anstey says: “There is an abundance of impressive innovation in bioscience occurring in the Cambridge Cluster. We are on the cusp of something fantastic here. It's exciting to be part of an opportunity in a growth phase and I think it's the perfect time to join this world class team and build something great.”   Anstey was previously a principal in the Healthcare Practice of The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) in Toronto, Canada. He brings experience in advising multinational healthcare businesses across North America,

BGF (Business Growth Fund) has appointed Fiona Gibson to support its growing portfolio in the South West of England. Gibson joins BGF from Lloyds Banking Group where she was head of equity investments, responsible for the bank’s portfolio of more than 250 legacy equity assets. Whilst at Lloyds, Gibson delivered a number of significant exits including the sale of Keepmoat and CALA Homes.   With 15 years’ private equity experience, predominately managing minority equity investments across a range of sectors, Gibson worked at 3i and HBoS Integrated Finance before moving into the equity investments team at Lloyds Banking Group following