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Lending Works, a peer-to-peer lender, has appointed Michael Raasch as its first head of technology.
With 20 years’ project development and management experience in the financial technology industry, Raasch will hold overall responsibility for Lending Works’ online and mobile IT development strategy.
Nick Harding, founding chief executive of Lending Works, says: “In the last few months, we have seen Lending Works transform as a business, from a start-up finding its feet to a genuine competitor to our largest peers. At this important stage in our growth, I am delighted that Michael has agreed to join us. Michael will be
Jean Châtillon has joined European private equity firm Silverfleet Capital in Paris as a principal, while Benjamin Hubner and Jennifer Regehr have joined the firm in Munich as associates.
Châtillon joins from Cobalt Capital, a Paris-based private equity firm, where he has been investing in mid-market French companies for the last seven years. Prior to joining Cobalt he worked for EY in Paris in the audit and transaction services business units.
Hubner joins from McKinsey & Company in Munich where he has worked on consulting projects across a wide range of sectors since 2010.
Regehr was previously at
Investment advisory firm bfinance has appointed Justin Preston as a senior associate for equities research with the firm’s public markets research team in London.
Preston previously worked for the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) as an investment manager for four years.
He was most recently UK head of manager research & selection at Buck Global Investment Advisors.
Chris Jones, managing director, head of public markets & alternatives at bfinance, says: "Justin's background as a Head of Research within an investment consultancy is complemented by his experience of actually managing portfolios on a day-to-day basis for a major institutional
Pan-European mid-market private equity firm Agilitas has appointed Kevin Iermiin as an investment executive.
Iermiin joins from Bank of America Merrill Lynch where he was a vice president in the Nordic investment banking team in London.
He has spent the last eight years working on a wide variety of transactions including mergers and acquisitions, IPOs, structured products and debt instruments across a number of sectors and European geographies.
Iermiin also worked as an equity analyst for four years, covering the industrial small and midcap sector in Denmark.
Martin Calderbank, founding partner at Agilitas, says: “Kevin has an
La Française has appointed Pierre Schoeffler as senior global asset allocation advisor, a role that will cover all asset classes managed by the group.
Xavier Lépine, chairman of the board of La Française, says: "Pierre's experience, advice and quantitative tools will help reinforce our strategic overview in terms of allocation through a quantitative approach to the various asset classes.
“Our strength lies in the diversity and originality of our solutions and approaches, and our ambition is to optimise their combination by drawing on Pierre's vision as a portfolio strategist. In the current low rate environment, our aim is to
Venture capital firm Target Partners has appointed Dr Marc Gumpinger as a venture partner.
Gumpinger, a successful serial entrepreneur, will support founders of new businesses with his experience and contacts.
As a founder and CEO, Gumpinger himself previously received financing from Target Partners. He developed the mobile social gaming platform Scoreloop into a global market leader. Gumpinger's sale of the company to RIM (BlackBerry) in 2011 was one of the most successful exits of a German tech start-up in recent years.
"Marc is an experienced and successful serial entrepreneur who knows the scene very well, both as a
Investment banking boutique Zeus Capital has appointed Adam Pollock and Michael Allen.
Pollock joins as head of corporate broking from Panmure Gordon, where he held the same role for the last seven years. He has 30 years of corporate finance and broking experience in the UK equity markets and has been involved in over 300 equity fund raisings during his career.
Allen joins Zeus as a research director. He previously worked as an executive director at Panmure Gordon and was one of the founding members of the firm’s Liverpool office. During his seven years at Panmure, he was heavily involved
Five Continents Financial Limited, a Cayman Islands-based asset management and corporate services company, has launched its governance services offering, which will be headed by former Deloitte partner Glen Wigney.
Wigney has over 30 years of experience with Deloitte in Canada, Cayman, and most recently, the US.
“Fund investors and investment managers are demanding enhanced fund governance with independent professional judgment applied in a business-like manner,” he says. “I believe that when my experience is combined with the asset management, corporate and legal expertise of the founding partners of Five Continents, our offering is differentiated in the marketplace and is
Alexander S Panos, a general partner and managing director of TSG Consumer Partners, is leaving the firm to start his own private equity fund.
Chuck Esserman, chief executive and founder of TSG, says: “Alex has been a valued member of our leadership team, and we wish him great success in his new business.”
Panos (pictured) joined TSG as an associate in 1998 in San Francisco and after successive promotions was named a managing director of TSG in 2004. In 2007, he moved to TSG’s New York office. He also served on TSG’s investment committee.
“I greatly appreciate my
SL Capital Partners’ infrastructure team, led by Dominic Helmsley, is in advanced stages of executing a number of prospective direct infrastructure investments.
The team’s strategy is to focus on direct investments in core infrastructure in the UK and selected European geographies and on mid-market transactions in utilities, transportation and energy.
Helmsley says: “SL Capital has developed a unique solution for clients looking to access the growing infrastructure asset class through a transparent, aligned and low cost structure across a number of strategies. We have confidence that this compelling proposition is attractive to both clients and vendors and we continue our
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