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Cyrus Investment Management (CIM), a specialist engineering turnaround EIS investment adviser, has appointed Clare Glackin, Head of Industrial Practice at Odgers Berndtson, to the firm’s Advisory Board.
Glackin heads the Industrial practice at Odgers Berndtson, where she undertakes executive searches for manufacturing and engineering businesses. Her particular focus is senior management in the global Aerospace, Defence, and Security sectors. Prior to commencing her career in executive search, she worked on major infrastructure projects as a Chartered Civil Engineer, before becoming a diplomat with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. She subsequently moved to the Ministry of Defence, where she led teams
BGF (Business Growth Fund) has appointed Will Copeland to the investment team in the Midlands. Copeland joins BGF from PwC where he worked as a manager in the transaction services team, providing due diligence to a variety of buyers, sellers and refinancers.
Based in BGF’s Birmingham office, Copeland joins a team of 10 investors covering the Midlands who, in addition to identifying investment opportunities, provide support to the companies they back.
So far this year, the team has made investments in Sertec Group, a manufacturer of stampings and welded assemblies; Paintbox Group, an automotive finishings supplier; Solid Solutions, the UK’s
Gen II Fund Services, an independent private equity fund administrator, has joined The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) Alternative Investment Product (AIP) Services.
AIP is a platform that links global market participants — including broker/dealers, fund managers, fund administrators and custodians, providing a single standard, efficient end-to-end process for alternative investments including private equity, hedge funds, funds of funds, non-traded real estate investment trusts (REITs), managed futures and limited partnerships.
Gen II's membership in the AIP services enables the Firm to seamlessly and efficiently service our private fund sponsor clients that maintain investor relationships with Registered Investment Advisors.
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Forum Equity Partners has appointed Colin Yee as the compan’s bew Chief Financial Officer (CFO).
As a founding partner of Dundee 360 Real Estate Corporation (formerly 360 VOX Inc), Yee has over 15 years of finance experience including managing assets with a total value of over USD4 billion and comprehensive transaction and operating knowledge in the luxury resort and mixed-use real estate markets.
“We are delighted to welcome Colin to the Forum team. He has worked on a number of large projects, including over USD1.5 billion in real estate transactions, and structured over USD500 million in financings. We look forward
Private equity firm Warburg Pincus has appointed Mark Begor as a Managing Director in the Industrial and Business Services group.
In this role, Begor will work with the firm's portfolio companies to accelerate growth and enhance operations, as well as help to identify and evaluate investment opportunities.
Begor joins Warburg Pincus from General Electric ("GE"), where he spent the past 35 years, most recently as a Senior Vice President as well as President and Chief Executive Officer of GE's USD8 billion Energy Management business. His roles during his tenure at GE, which spanned the industrial side of the business as
AT&T Inc has appointed Geoffrey Yang to its Board of Directors. Yang is a founding partner and managing director of venture capital firm Redpoint Ventures. He will serve on the company’s Corporate Development and Finance Committee.
“Geoff has an outstanding track record in technology and emerging forms of media and entertainment,” says Randall Stephenson, chairman and CEO of AT&T. “His extensive experience in these areas is a terrific fit with AT&T and we look forward to his contributions as a member of the board.”
Yang joined Institutional Venture Partners (IVP) in 1987 and co-founded Redpoint in 1999. Redpoint and its
Estera has bolstered its risk and compliance offering with the appointment of Risk and Compliance Director, Tui Iti who will be responsible for ensuring the company consistently adopts the highest global compliance standards across each of its international offices.
The newly created role consolidates Estera’s strategic approach to the management of internal and external risk.
Iti brings more than 16 years of multi-jurisdictional compliance experience to the group, gained from working in both the onshore and offshore finance industries across a range of sectors.
Prior to joining Estera, Iti was Group Risk and Compliance Director for multi-jurisdictional fiduciary services company,
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom has appointed private equity real estate lawyer Robert Porter Robert Porter as Of Counsel in the firm’s London office.
Porter, who joins from another international law firm, has more than 30 years of experience in the real estate sector, advising private equity real estate (PERE) firms, sovereign funds, property companies and financial institutions on UK and European real estate funds, joint ventures, M&A, financings and highly structured transactions across Europe and the Middle East.
Porter, who will head Skadden's European real estate private equity initiative, which complements the firm's prominent global PERE capabilities, says:
Private equity firm Wynnchurch Capital has appointed Chris Curfman to its Executive Advisory Board.
Curfman was most recently President of Caterpillar Global Mining and Senior Vice President of CAT Inc.(NYSE:CAT), the world's leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment.
Curfman's career with Caterpillar Global Mining and CAT Inc. spans over 21 years and includes leadership roles in the Asia-Pacific division and Australia. As President of Global Mining, he led the single largest business unit within the company for over ten years. Curfman had a 15-year career at Deere & Company, ultimately serving as President/General Manager of Equipment Remarketing Services.
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Bedell Cristin has appointed Kristian Wilson as partner in the firm's Singapore office.
Wilson who joined the firm in June 2013, is an experienced commercial lawyer having worked and qualified as a solicitor (England and Wales) at Slaughter and May in both London and Paris before practising offshore law in Jersey and the BVI. He is also a qualified BVI lawyer and his practice includes corporate and financial matters, with a focus on joint ventures, private equity and cross-border transactions.
As a member of the Bedell Cristin Singapore team, Wilson has acted on a number of notable deals including: acting
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