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Emmanuelle Pierret is joining Idinvest Partners as Investment Director of the Growth Capital team.
Pierret’s role will mainly consist of the deployment of the NOVI 2 Equity Compartment taking minority stakes in SMEs and midmarket companies with strong growth potential with investment ranging between EUR3 million and EUR20 million.
Before joining Idinvest in January 2016, Pierret spent fourteen years with Naxicap Partners. She was involved in more than fifteen private equity transactions, as minority or majority shareholder. In 2015, she was a member of Naxicap Investor Relations team.
Pierret graduated from Audencia Business School.
Aquila Group has strengthened its real assets portfolio management proposition by appointing Bjoern Meyer as Team Head with responsibility for the company’s wind power and photovoltaic plants.
Meyer has 15 years’ experience in the renewable energy sector. Prior to joining Aquila Group, the graduate economist held positions within banks, project developers and a utility company. He has extensive expertise in project finance, mergers and acquisitions and executive management.
Roman Rosslenbroich, CEO and Co-Founder of Aquila Group, says: “As a specialist with extensive sector experience, Meyer further strengthens our team in the renewable energy department. His appointment reflects our commitment
Palatine Private Equity has appointed Rupert Brown as Investment Manager as the firm looks to increase the investment capacity of the southern team.
Brown joins from NBGI Private Equity where he spent over four years in the UK investment team working on a number of acquisitions, including ATR Group and Horizon Care, and holding several board positions. Rupert, who is a qualified Chartered Accountant, started his career at PwC where he worked on a variety of private equity transactions and financial restructurings.
Brown will work alongside Palatine Partner Tony Dickin and Investment Director Andy Strickland in the London office.
Harvest Partners has promoted Stephen Carlson to Managing Director of the firm. Previously a Principal, he joins the eight current Managing Directors and Senior Managing Directors of Harvest.
Carlson joined Harvest in 2010 from DLJ Merchant Banking Partners. He is a cum laude graduate of The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and received a Master of Business Administration from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Carlson serves on the board of VetCor and FCX Performance and is involved with the firm’s fund investments in PSSI and Valet Waste. He devotes the majority of his time to
QIC – a global diversified alternative investment firm – has appointed Eric Belman to the QIC Global Infrastructure team in its newly-established New York office.
Belman will lead the firm’s infrastructure origination, investment and execution efforts in North America. QIC is one of Australia’s largest institutional investment managers, offering infrastructure, real estate, private equity, liquid strategies and multi-asset investments.
Belman’s appointment is part of QIC’s geographic expansion strategy and further deepens the firm’s sector expertise in the infrastructure space. This hiring follows the appointment in March 2015 of Giles Tucker in London to develop QIC’s European infrastructure investments efforts
Elian has strengthened its recently launched commercial team with two senior appointments.
Lisa Mclauchlan has been appointed business development and marketing director, and Mari Hietala-David (pictured, with Mclauchlan) has been appointed to oversee marketing and business development for private equity and real estate funds.
Both positions are in Elian’s commercial team, which is responsible for the continual development of new products, and driving business growth and market share, whilst maintaining high levels of client service across the globe.
As part of the newly created role, Mclauchlan will oversee all marketing and business development activity across Elian’s service lines
Private equity firm Winona Capital has promoted Jason Sowers to Partner.
“We’re extremely pleased to welcome Jason to the partnership position,” says Laird Koldyke, Managing Director of Winona Capital. “Jason has an unparalleled understanding of the retail industry and has proven his ability to accelerate consumer demand and significantly increase the financial value for a range of companies.”
Sowers joined Winona Capital in 2008, bringing entrepreneurial and private equity experience to the firm. Prior to his time at Winona, Mr. Sowers was part of KPMG’s Global Strategic and Commercial Intelligence group (SCI) where he worked with and advised corporate and
German early-stage technology investor Target Partners has named Dr Michael Münnix as a Partner. Michael joined the firm as an Associate in 2011.
“We are excited and proud to win Michael as Partner,” says Waldemar Jantz, Partner and co-founder of Target Partners. “Michael contributed significantly to nine major investments for the firm: Abusix, adjust, adsquare, Finanzchef24, Scanbot, So1, Swarm64, Theva and Quobyte. Michael brings the perfect mix of technology know-how, entrepreneurial background and investment experience that is crucial for our approach.”
“Target Partners’ combination of strong technology affinity, track record as investors and a hands-on mentality is unique in
Growth equity and venture capital firm North Bridge has promoted Won Park to Principal and made two new additions to the firm’s growth equity investment team – Chris Cavanagh as Principal and Brendan Gibney as Vice President.
“We are very pleased to recognise the outstanding contributions of Won with his well-deserved promotion,” says Roshen Menon, General Partner of North Bridge Growth Equity. “We are confident that he [Won Park] will continue to serve our investors and help drive our portfolio companies forward in the years to come.”
“In addition, we are delighted to welcome Chris and Brendan to the
Olof Faxander has joined the advisor to the Nordic Capital Funds as Operating Partner and will co-head the Operations team alongside Lars Terney, Partner, NC Advisory A/S.
Faxander has substantial industrial experience, most recently as CEO of a large listed Swedish company, Sandvik. His experience and skills will enable him to play a key role in supporting Nordic Capital’s portfolio companies to build strong and internationally competitive positions. Faxander’s primary objectives will be to support an accelerated value creation in existing portfolio companies, assist in evaluating new investment opportunities, and support the on-boarding of new portfolio companies that typically enter an
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