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Manulife Asset Management Private Markets, the private asset management arm of Manulife, has made three senior appointments.
Jenn Lundmark was named Head of Real Estate Fundraising, effective 8 June, Ken Pogrin was named Global Head of Business Development and Chief Operating Officer, effective 15 June, and Sahezad Pardhan, also a Senior Managing Director, was named Global Chief Financial Officer, effective 20 April.
All three positions are newly created roles for the organisation.
"We are pleased to announce these key hires, rounding out our senior management team," says Kevin JE Adolphe, President & CEO, Manulife Asset Management Private Markets and Manulife
Ipes, a provider of outsourced services to Private Equity in Europe, has made two senior appointments to support the continued growth of the business.
Peter Fairweather has joined the London office as Depositary Director and Gary Mauger has joined the Guernsey office as Operations Director.
Ipes' Depositary provides services to more than 160 Alternative Investment Funds across Private Equity, Debt, Infrastructure, Real Estate, Venture and Fund of Funds. Peter Fairweather has joined Ipes as Depositary Director to manage the team of 12 Depositary Analysts in London and to help grow the Depositary business. Peter has over 35 years of
Private equity firm Calculus Capital, a specialist in Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) funds, has appointed Alexander Crawford as Investment Director.
Alexander has over 20 years' corporate finance experience, including ten years with Robert Fleming & Co, Evercore Partners and JP Morgan in London, New York and Johannesburg. He was previously a Managing Director at Pall Mall Capital. He has an MA in Mathematics from Cambridge University and qualified as a Chartered Accountant with KPMG.
As a senior member of the investment team, Alexander's role will be to source and execute new deals, as well as managing some of the existing
Seventure has appointed Danilo Casadei Massari and Dr Thomas Werner to its Health for Life Capital fund Investment Committee.
They are two very experienced figures in the international life science sector with outstanding track records which will strengthen Seventure’s team.
Casadei Massari has over 30 years of senior management experience in the pharmaceutical field and is a highly successful serial entrepreneur. Most recently he was a founder and President of CM&D Pharma Ltd, a medical food company sold to Nestle Health Science in 2011. Prior appointments include VP Corporate Development at Madaus Group, CEO of Madaus Italy, and Board positions
Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP), a USD4 billion global venture capital firm, has promoted Kristina Shen to Vice President. In this role, Kristina will continue to work closely with BVP's investing partners to identify entrepreneurial opportunities in startups aligned with cloud computing, mobile and Internet sectors.
Based in San Francisco, Kristina joined the firm in 2013 with a focus on the cloud-computing and internet sectors. Kristina is involved in Bessemer’s investments in Adaptive Insights, ClearCare, DoubleDutch, Gainsight, Instructure, ServiceTitan, Speakeasy, Twilio and Vidyard. She is a Board Observer for ClearCare, DoubleDutch, Instructure, Retail Solutions, ServiceTitan and Vidyard, and a co-founder and
Emerging-market investment firm Actis has elected Torbjorn Caesar as the Firm’s new Senior Partner.
Caesar has assumed his new role with immediate effect, succeeding Paul Fletcher, who becomes Non-Executive Chairman of the Firm.
Fletcher says: “I am delighted that Torbjorn will take over as the Senior Partner of Actis. During his 13 years at the Firm, he has shown outstanding leadership skills in tandem with generating excellent investment returns. We are indeed fortunate to have him lead and inspire the next generation of Actis and to develop the Firm in its second decade.”
Caesar says: “On behalf of the Firm,
Padraig Hoare (pictured) has joined Elian Fund Services as an associate director.
Hoare, 47, has more than 25 years’ industry experience, including 20 years in management positions in the financial services industry in Cayman. His focus at Elian will be on providing governance and oversight services to alternative investment funds.
‘I am looking forward to using my knowledge and experience to provide sound and personalised corporate governance services to clients, leveraging off the extensive knowledge and skills of those in the fiduciary services team and adding value wherever possible,’ he says.
Before joining Elian, Hoare, a chartered accountant, was global
Seyfarth Shaw has appointed Howard H Jiang as a partner in the firm’s Corporate department in New York. Jiang joins Seyfarth from Locke Lord where he was a partner in the corporate and transactional department and spearheaded the firm’s China practice.
Jiang’s practice is focused on domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, and project finance matters. He has advised many US and foreign companies on investment projects in Asia, specifically China, as well as Asia Pacific businesses investing in the US and overseas. In addition, Jiang has represented numerous domestic and foreign issuers in several equity and debt
BNY Mellon has named Alan Flanagan as global head of private equity and real estate fund services. Previously, Flanagan was global head of product management at BNY Mellon’s Alternative Investment Services.
Flanagan will continue to be based in Dublin and report to Frank La Salla, CEO of BNY Mellon’s Alternative Investment Services (AIS) business, in New York.
As a new unit within AIS, PE&RE Fund Services will comprise more than USD100 billion in assets under administration and over 150 employees worldwide. Flanagan will be responsible for overseeing global business and driving growth in an area that has seen large recent
BNY Mellon has appointed Alan Flanagan to the new role of Global Head of Private Equity and Real Estate (PE&RE) Fund Services.
Flanagan will continue to be based in Dublin and report to Frank La Salla, CEO of BNY Mellon’s Alternative Investment Services (AIS) business, in New York.
As a new unit within AIS, PE&RE Fund Services will comprise more than USD100 billion in assets under administration and over 150 employees worldwide. Flanagan will be responsible for overseeing global business and driving growth in an area that has seen large recent deals. In February, BNY Mellon and Deutsche Asset
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