Eversheds has appointed Pinsent Masons partner Andy Phillips to its Manchester corporate team. Phillips, who is expected to join Eversheds’ Manchester office in early 2017, will lead the Eversheds private equity group in the North West.   Phillips has experience and expertise advising PE institutions and management teams and sellers on management buy-outs, exits and private company M&A within a range of sectors.   Simon Masters, Eversheds corporate head for Manchester, says: “We have taken our time and been very careful in selecting the right person to lead our private equity team in Manchester. I know we have the right person

Bowside Capital, a private investment firm that specialises in the North American private equity, small capitalisation market, has appointed Dru Rushing as a vice president. Rushing will be involved in sourcing, due diligence and monitoring of private equity investments.   Prior to joining Bowside, Rushing spent over seven years as an investment banker focused on the business services and healthcare sectors.   He was most recently a vice president in the Atlanta office of Raymond James Financial, where he participated in over 20 transactions in mergers and acquisitions, debt capital markets, equity capital markets and private placements.   Previously, Rushing

SharesPost, a liquidity provider to the late-stage, venture-backed asset class, has appointed Kelly Rodriques to its board of directors. Rodriques has more than 25 years of financial services and technology experience and has been an investor in more than 20 venture-backed firms.   He was a founding investor of mFoundry, a provider of mobile banking which was acquired by Fidelity Information Systems in 2013.   Most recently, he served as CEO of Pensco, an alternative asset custodian.   "Kelly Rodriques has spent his professional career helping investors put capital to work in high-growth opportunities in alternative assets and private equity,"

Ignition Partners, an early stage business software venture capital firm, has appointed Bob Kelly as a managing partner in the firm’s Seattle office. Kelly will be one of the firm’s four partners responsible for fund investments and overall firm strategy.   Kelly brings more than 20 years of experience with him from Microsoft where he held a variety of positions, most recently holding the position of corporate vice president for the cloud and enterprise business development and strategy team where he drove the merger and acquisition strategy and coordination of cross-division strategic planning.   During his tenure, Kelly played an

Global investment bank GCA Altium has made three senior promotions in its Manchester team. Dominic Orsini and Adam Sivner become directors, while Mark Smith takes the role of assistant director.   Orsini has spent four years at GCA Altium, joining the company as an associate in September 2012. During his time at the firm, he has predominantly focused on the TMT sector, being involved in high profile transactions including Ascribe, Metronet, TotalMobile and Guestline.   Sivner joined GCA Altium as an analyst in 2008, and has built considerable expertise of the energy and industrials sectors. He has been at the

UK private equity house Maven Capital Partners has appointed Melanie Goward as investment director in the firm's London-based investment team. Goward brings more than 15 years’ experience in investing in early-stage businesses, including the technology, life science and biotechnology sectors.   Goward will be responsible for handling new early-stage and technology private equity investments for Maven across the south and south-west of England and Wales.   She joins Maven from Finance Wales, where she worked as fund manager for the Wales Technology Seed Fund within the technology ventures team, providing funding to help a range of businesses commercialise and bring

Private equity firm CenterOak Partners has hired three new professionals. Ben Adams has been appointed vice president; Carrie Calhoun as senior associate of business development and investor relations; and Josh Weaver as associate.   With these hires, the staff at CenterOak now totals 22 individuals, including 13 members of the investment team and three operating partners.   “Ben, Carrie and Josh each bring valuable experience and an impressive track record, whether working in an investment capacity, business development, investor relations or developing expertise in a particular industry or sector,” says CenterOak managing partner Randall Fojtasek. “We’re looking forward to working