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Chelverton Asset Management (CAM) has appointed Richard Bucknell as investment director in its unquoted equities team.
The team is responsible for sourcing and executing quality investment opportunities in private UK companies for a range of high net worth (HNW) investors and private investment offices.
Bucknell (pictured), an experienced private equity investor, has been working with CAM as a consultant since September last year and will report to CAM’s managing director, David Horner.
Prior to CAM, Bucknell led more than 20 new investments in small and medium-sized enterprises, and has previously held senior investment management positions with Barclays Ventures,
Bridge Growth Partners, a growth-oriented private equity investment firm launched late last year, has appointed Phil Scanlan to the firm’s strategic advisory board.
Scanlan, an Australian businessman, stepped down as Australian consul-general in New York last year.
He is a former managing director of Coca-Cola Amatil.
“We are extremely pleased to welcome Phil to our advisory board,” says Alok Singh, co-founder and managing principal of Bridge Growth Partners. “He is deeply familiar with the dynamics and opportunities that have created what amounts to a USD1trn two-way investment freeway between the US and Australia. Phil is a true globalist
CDC Group has appointed David Osborne as investment director.
Osborne joins CDC’s equity investments team, which provides capital directly to businesses across Africa and South Asia, focusing on sectors that have good potential for job creation.
Osborne has over 25 years of experience of private equity investing in both European and Asian markets.
Most recently, he was managing director of the investment firm CapAsia, which focuses on infrastructure investment in Central and South-East Asia. He led the firm’s Islamic Infrastructure Fund, making investments in the Islamic countries of emerging Asia including Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia and Malaysia.
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SAP Ventures, the independent venture capital firm affiliated with SAP AG, has named Rami Branitzky as managing director to lead the global market development team.
With more than USD1.4bn under management, SAP Ventures invests in innovative and disruptive expansion-stage companies, as well as early-stage venture capital funds, across the information technology landscape.
Branitzky will oversee the firm's efforts to enable its direct and indirect portfolio companies to leverage the capabilities of one of the world's largest enterprise IT ecosystems through its limited partner, SAP AG.
With close to 20 years of experience, Branitzky is a veteran of building and
Law firm Dechert has appointed Mark Browne as a partner with the firm’s financial services group in its Dublin office.
“We are delighted to have Mark join us,” says Peter Astleford, Dechert’s global financial services group co-chair. “Mark’s experience, dynamism and deep knowledge of the Irish and international investment funds sector will be an important addition to our expanding local and global capability. His experience in advising US, UK and international asset managers on their Dublin-based fund projects, combined with his offshore experience, will be invaluable in meeting the needs of our clients and adding to our capability to advise
State Street has appointed two senior executives to its alternatives investment solutions' (AIS) North American private equity fund services team.
Suresh Krishnamurthy and Cesar Estrada, both senior managing directors, will lead teams dedicated to servicing alternative fund of funds, limited partner, direct and hybrid structures.
They will report to Bhagesh Malde, head of private equity and real estate fund services for North America and Asia Pacific.
"The search for alpha, increased demand for transparency, risk management, real-time latency issues and regulatory complexity are putting pressure on alternative asset managers," says Malde. "Continued growth for direct and hybrid private
International investment bank Altium has strengthened its UK team following the promotion of four senior staff.
Katie Hobbs has been promoted to director in the London office. She joined the firm in 2008 from Goldman Sachs and has worked on a number of transactions including the sale of Mentor to VINCI Energies and the sale of ActivInstinct to JD Sports.
Chris Hopwood is based in Altium’s Manchester office and has been promoted to director. He joined Altium in 2009 from HBOS and has worked on a number of deals including the MBO of Icelolly.com by Palatine Private Equity and
Greenhill & Co, an independent investment bank, has appointed Patricia Moran as a managing director and chief legal officer in New York.
Moran is a partner at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, where she began her career 30 years ago.
Based in New York, she has broad experience in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, private equity, restructurings, corporate governance and general corporate and securities law. She has advised clients on a wide variety of transactions, including mergers, acquisitions and divestitures in both strategic transactions and financial sponsor transactions, as well as on restructurings, joint ventures and equity
ACE Group has expanded its mergers and acquisitions (M&A) practice into a private equity practice concentrating on insurance solutions for private equity firms, their portfolio companies as well as their M&A transactions.
Seth Gillston, based in New York City, has been named executive vice president to lead the expanded practice. He will coordinate a team of underwriters who will address the specialised needs of the private equity industry and the M&A process.
ACE’s M&A practice has been enhanced to broaden its suite of risk management solutions, insurance products across all North American business units, and claims coordination to respond
Wynnchurch Capital, a middle-market private equity firm, has appointed Jude Thompson to its newly formed executive advisory board.
Thompson was most recently president and co-CEO of Papa John's International, the world's third largest pizza company.
Previously, Thompson held several leadership roles at WellPoint, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, most recently as divisional president. In this role, he was responsible for management of the company's individual business unit in the 14 states served by WellPoint, which generated more than USD5bn in revenue.
Thompson is a board member of Central Bank & Trust Company of Jefferson County, ISCO Industries,
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