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Abacus Group, a provider of hosted IT solutions for hedge funds and private equity funds, has appointed Brian Lozada as director of information security.
Based in New York, Lozada will report to Viktor Tadijanovic, chief technology officer of Abacus Group.
Lozada brings over 14 years’ experience in information security and will be responsible for the development of current and new Abacus security solutions that help financial institutions to protect their enterprise systems, applications and data from cyber intrusions.
Most recently, he was the director of information security at Condé Nast, where he was responsible for overseeing the security
Law firm Martin LLP has appointed John Capetta to lead its private equity practice group.
He joins the firm from Kelley Drye & Warren where he started his career and was chair of the firm-wide private equity practice group.
"We are pleased to have John joining us," says Christopher Martin, managing partner at Martin LLP. "John's more than 20 years focused exclusively in the private equity space will further strengthen our growing corporate practice. It is an exciting time for our firm as we continue to expand."
Capetta has 34 years of experience in the area of mergers
Ares Capital Corporation’s board of directors has named Michael J Arougheti as co-chairman of the board and promoted three of its longstanding senior executive officers.
Arougheti has served as a director since 2009 and has also served as chief executive officer of Ares Capital Corporation since May 2013 and prior to that as president since its IPO in 2004.
Arougheti currently serves as president of Ares Management, an alternative asset manager, and will continue to serve as a senior partner and co-head of the direct lending group, as a member of Ares Management’s board of directors and management committee
DLA Piper has appointed Mark Roppel as a partner in the firm’s corporate and finance group in New York.
Roppel has more than 25 years of experience with complex, cross-border transactions in Asia, Europe and the Americas, particularly in China, where he practiced for six years.
He brings M&A experience (including hostile M&A) to the firm, representing clients in a variety of transactions, including stock mergers, tender offers, public offerings, private stock and asset purchases, private placements, leveraged acquisitions, restructurings, joint ventures and strategic alliances. In addition, he advises clients on corporate governance matters and represents financial institutions as
Medley has appointed Peter McLaughlin as managing director on the firm’s direct lending team.
McLaughlin will play a key role in further developing the firm's relationships with private equity firms and corporate borrowers.
McLaughlin brings 23 years of experience to Medley having worked most recently as a managing director at CIFC and with Longroad Asset Management where he was head of origination.
Prior to Longroad, McLaughlin worked with Gottex Middle Market Debt Fund, Contrarian Capital Management, Golden Tree Asset Management, Wells Fargo Foothill and JP Morgan.
Seth Taube, CEO of Medley, says: "We are pleased to add
Impax Asset Management has added three new hires to its private equity infrastructure team.
Within private equity infrastructure, the firm manages two funds that follow an industrially focused, value-add “buy, build and sell” strategy, investing in renewable power generation and related assets.
Its latest fund, a EUR330 million investment fund that achieved final close in 2011, is now close to 75 per cent invested.
Peter Rossbach, managing director of the private equity infrastructure team, says: “We are delighted to announce these appointments which bring a broad range of analytic experience and expert support to strengthen the team. In
Charles River Associates (CPA) has appointed Robert W Holthausen to the firm’s board of directors.
Professor Holthausen will serve on the company’s audit committee.
Holthausen is the Ernst and Young and the Nomura Securities Company Professor of Accounting and Finance and is the chairman of the Department of Accounting at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Prior to Wharton, he was a Professor of Accounting and Finance at the Graduate School of Business of the University of Chicago.
Before his academic career, he was a CPA working at Price Waterhouse and he was also in the
David Jorgenson has joined consulting firm mergers and acquisitions (M&A) specialist Equiteq as its global head of M&A, based in its New York office.
Jorgenson has advised business owners, shareholders and C-level executives on every aspect of growth and value realisation during his 20-year career as a technology consultant and investment banker.
He is an expert in every aspect of corporate financial advisory – from valuation, strategic financial advisory, public and private equity and debt financing, exit planning, M&A strategy and execution.
Jorgenson says: “Equiteq’s transactional M&A expertise offers unique value to consulting firms and the opportunity to
Fiona Le Poidevin has resigned as chief executive of Guernsey Finance, the promotional agency for the island’s finance industry internationally, to head up the Channel Islands Securities Exchange (CISE).
She will leave in early 2015 to become chief executive at the CISE, which is responsible for the day to day administration and marking operations of the new exchange.
CISE is the parent company of the Channel Islands Securities Exchange Authority (CISEA), which is responsible for operating and regulating the exchange.
Jon Moulton, chairman of the CISE says: “I am delighted that Fiona has decided to join us as
The African Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (AVCA) has appointed Dr Dorothy Kelso as director, head of strategy and research.
Kelso, a Ghanaian native, joins AVCA with 15 years of research, strategy and private equity experience gained at organisations including EY, Coller Capital, IE Consulting, the IMF and Incisive Media.
Most recently, Kelso was an associate director in the private equity strategic market intelligence team at EY in London, and a core member of the EY team who worked with AVCA to produce the annual AVCA and EY African Private Equity Exits Study.
Prior to EY, Kelso
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