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Canadian alternative asset management firm Fengate Capital Management has opened an office in Australia as part of the firm’s international investment strategy.
The office, located in Sydney, will be the headquarters for Fengate's Asia-Pacific operations. Greg Osborne has been appointed Managing Director – Head of Asia-Pacific to lead these operations.
One of the leading investors in the Canadian Public-Private Partnerships (P3) market, Fengate Capital has invested over USD632 million across 26 infrastructure projects, representing approximately USD10 billion in total project value. Part of the Firm's growth strategy is to focus on expanding into select international markets. According to Lou Serafini
Private equity firm Tower Three Partners has appointed Debra Bricker as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Chief Compliance Officer (CCO), succeeding Chris Jacobs who has retired.
Bricker joins Tower Three with more than 16 years of private equity and financial management experience. She brings extensive leadership experience, having previously served as Chief Financial Officer and Chief Compliance Officer at Harvest Partners, LP Bricker is a New York Certified Public Accountant.
"I am pleased to have someone of Debra's caliber join our team," says Bill Forrest, Founder and Managing Partner of Tower Three Partners. "Debra's extensive background in the financial services
Danish/Swedish lower mid-market private equity investor Polaris Private Equity has appointed two new members to its team.
Martin Lindh joins the firm as investment manager from SEB, while Thorsten Madsen, who also joins as a investment manager, was previously with Implement Consulting Group.
The appointments follow Polaris’s achievement of a successful first close on its latest private equity fund – Polaris Private Equity IV – at DKK 2.2 billion (EUR300 million). The fund has a target of DKK 3 billion and follows the same strategy as its predecessor fund, seeking to build value in lower mid- market Danish or Swedish
Investec Investment Banking (Investec) has appointed Serge Rissi as a Director in the Financial Sponsor Transaction Group, reporting to Christian Hess.
Rissi has 15 years of M&A execution experience. He was most recently a Director at Quayle Munro having originally joined UBS Warburg before spending more than a decade at Hawkpoint.
Rissi’s appointment further strengthens Investec’s dedicated private equity advisory group, which focusses exclusively on Financial Sponsor M&A sell-side and buy-side transactions.
Andrew Pinder, Head of Investment Banking, says: "I am delighted to announce Serge’s appointment; Private Equity is one of Investec's core client groups and our strong
Force Over Mass Capital has appointed Lee McSorley as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) with responsiblity for the development of the firm’s Performance Measurement and Valuation System – under the project name ‘DNA’.
With extensive experience in the development of systemic trading systems in the hedge fund community, McSorley specialises in genetic programming – an artificial intelligence field using an evolutionary algorithm-based methodology inspired by biological evolution.
McSorley was previously a Quantitative Developer at OTAS Technologies, from November 2011 until February 2013. Prior to this, McSorley worked as a Quantitative Developer at Integral Capital Management (March 2009 – August 2010), as
JLT Specialty Insurance Services has appointed André Eichenholtz as Senior Vice President, Leader of US Private Equity Due Diligence & Specialty Services.
Eichenholtz most recently served as President of Krauter & Company LLC where he managed the day-to-day operations of the firm including leading the client account service teams for risk management clients, middle market clients, the small business unit and Private Client Services of the firm, as well as managing corporate marketing, new business, carrier relations and recruiting efforts. He was with the company since its inception more than ten years ago.
Eichenholtz brings to the JLT Specialty USA
Wing Venture Capita has hired Jeff Schneble as a Partner.
Schneble joins Wing from Silver Lake Partners, where he was an operating executive on the Value Creation team. At Silver Lake he worked with multiple entrepreneurs and teams to grow successful tech companies, including GoDaddy, Mercury Payment Systems, Vantage Data Centers and Fathom. At Wing he will work closely with the firm's founders, Gaurav Garg and Peter Wagner, who have decades of experience building billion-dollar-plus enterprises in rapidly growing industries.
As a Partner, Schneble will lead investments in startups and leverage his operating expertise to help their founders create significant
Signature Private Finance, a privately owned & funded Principal Lender, has appointed Brilliant Solutions to its distribution panel.
Having just completed its first year’s trading, Signature has identified building relationships with select industry partners as key to its growth strategy.
Signature’s Business Development Manager, Nigel Robbins (pictured), says: “This is good news for us and for borrowers. This is a distributor that shares our philosophy in putting the needs of customers first, whilst demonstrating an understanding of the need for a fast and efficient service, when it comes to short-term funding.
“It’s been an encouraging first year and establishing a
Lonsdale Capital Partners, a private equity firm focussed on the smaller end of the market, has appointed Andrew Chetwood as an Associate.
Chetwood will be working across the business, focused initially on deal implementation for the existing pipeline of acquisitions as well as supporting the current portfolio. He joins Lonsdale Capital Partners from EY (Ernst and Young) where he worked in Operational Transaction Services on deals in consumer goods, pharmaceuticals and oil and gas, advising clients on operational issues in transactions both pre and post deal.
Prior to this he was an operations consultant at Chartwell Consulting and Stroud
Victory Park Capital (VPC), an asset management firm focused on middle market debt and equity investments, has promoted five investment professionals in its Chicago office to the firm’s leadership team.
Charles Asfour, Partner, will continue to be responsible for originating, executing and managing private debt and equity investments in middle market companies across a number of industries. He plays a leading role in VPC’s investment efforts within the transportation and retail sectors, and is actively involved in value creation initiatives and strategic alternatives for VPC’s investments. Asfour joined VPC in 2010 and has more than 11 years of experience as
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