Dominik Tobschall has joined venture capital firm Target Partners as an associate. The 34-year-old software developer and lawyer supports the team in handling all tasks related to start-up investments, from deal flow to the investment process right through to portfolio management.   Prior to joining Target Partners Tobschall worked on digitalization projects and took care of technology investments and acquisitions with a member of the executive board at C.H.BECK, one of the major names in the German publishing industry. Previously Tobschall founded fruux GmbH in 2010, a venture capital funded software company.   "I am thrilled to join Target Partners,

Steve Beck has been named a general partner at early stage venture capital firm Serra Ventures. After working informally with the Serra team for several years, Beck joined Serra Ventures as a venture partner in January 2016.   Now named a general partner, he will focus on developing Serra Capital’s reach and influence in selected West Coast geographies.    Beck is an entrepreneur and technology investor with over 25 years of experience both launching and guiding start-up companies. He has participated in two IPOs, Baidu and Lifelock, and he has transacted five public and five private company sales.   Tim

Gowling WLG is growing its corporate presence in Germany by hiring Petra Beyer, who joins Andreas Woelfle in Stuttgart, as a director in the corporate law team. Beyer specialises in corporate, banking and capital law, as well as general contract law and international commercial law. In 1997, she joined Haver & Mailaender, where she became a partner in 2001. She left the firm in 2016.   Beyer focuses on advising mid-sized OEMs with an international footprint, as well as companies from the IT-sector on M&A transactions and other areas of corporate law.   Another one of her focus areas is

Atlantic-Pacific Capital, an independently owned global placement and advisory firm focused on alternative investments, has appointed Raed Elkhatib as Partner and CEO, and Hank Gurley as Principal. Elkhatib will focus on origination for Atlantic-Pacific and will be a full voting member of the partnership group, which has overseen day-to-day operations and strategic direction of the firm since 2009. He joins the firm after spending 11 years in the Private Fund Group at Credit Suisse, where he was a Managing Director responsible for leading the due diligence and origination efforts for Credit Suisse’s private equity fundraising team. “I was attracted to

European growth private equity investor Keensight Capital has appointed Anne de Bonnefon as head of investor relations. De Bonnefon has 15 years of private equity and strategy consulting experience, having begun her career in 2000 as a strategy consultant for AT Kearney.   In 2006, she joined the primary investment team at Unigestion in Geneva, where she was in charge of selecting European funds. She went on to serve as director of the investor relations team at LBO France for five years before joining Keensight Capital.   Keensight Capital managing partner Jean-Michel Beghin says: "We are delighted that a talented

Pritzker Group Private Capital has appointed Ryan Roberts as investment partner and co-head of the group’s services team, which focuses on investing in and operating companies in various industries within the services sector. Roberts joins the investing and operating teams at Pritzker Group with more than 15 years of significant leadership and investment experience.   Roberts’ experience includes investing in tech-enabled platforms which will allow the firm to further leverage Pritzker Group’s technology base, including from sister teams at Pritzker Group Venture Capital.   Most recently Roberts was a director on the technology, media and telecom services team for Madison

Baird Capital, the direct private investment arm of Robert W. Baird & Co, has appointed Andy Tse as a partner to help lead the firm’s investment efforts in Asia. Tse is a member of Baird Capital’s global team working to identify and pursue investments in the technology & services sector.   A veteran executive with more than 20 years of private equity experience, Tse most recently served as managing director of AIF Capital where he led investments in industrial and services sector across Greater China, South Korea, South East Asia, India, Sri Lanka and Australia.   Prior to AIF Capital,