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J Rich Alexander, who held a number of senior operating executive positions during a 35-year career at PPG Industries, has joined Advent International as an operating partner.
He will work closely with Advent's chemicals team to identify and evaluate new investment opportunities in the chemicals and materials sector and create value in existing portfolio companies.
Alexander (pictured) serves on the board of directors of Allnex, a supplier of coating resins and additives that Advent acquired last year from Cytec Industries.
Alexander most recently was a member of PPG's executive and operating committees and oversaw the company's global
New York-based private equity firm AUA Private Equity Partners has promoted Daniel Hodges to senior associate.
Hodges focuses on investments in the consumer, media and business services sectors and has over seven years of private equity and corporate finance experience.
Andy Unanue, managing partner of AUA, says: “We are very pleased to have Dan as part of our team. We believe in cultivating talent and promoting from within our organisation to acknowledge hard work and experience and we intend to foster those efforts in building the best investment team that we can. Dan has proven to be a valuable
Private equity firm Warburg Pincus has appointed Peter Kukielski as an executive-in-residence.
Kukielski (pictured) will work to identify and evaluate investment opportunities in the mining industry globally with a view to forming a new mining company.
Kukielski was previously chief executive of ArcelorMittal Mining where he built the company's global mining business into one of the world's five largest iron ore and metallurgical coal producers.
Prior to joining ArcelorMittal, Kukielski held senior executive positions at several other mining companies, including Teck Resources, Falconbridge and Noranda (now Glencore Xstrata) and Rio Algom (now BHP Billiton).
Kukielski says: "The reduction
Venture capital firm Accel Partners has appointed Eric Wolford as venture partner.
Most recently he served as president, products group for Riverbed Technology, and was recently appointed to the Riverbed board of directors as well as the board's strategy committee.
During his 10-plus years at Riverbed, Wolford led a number of functions including products, marketing and development that helped to take the company public and deliver growth from zero to USD1bn in annual revenue.
Wolford will be working closely with the Accel Partners enterprise IT and data-driven software investment team and will be responsible for evaluating and investing,
Following a restructure, fiduciary and fund services specialist Abacus has formed the Abacus Financial Services Group.
The new group structure will include Abacus’ two entities in Malta, Abacus Financial Services (Malta) Limited (AFSML) and Abacus Corporate Services Limited (ACSL), and Abacus Financial Services Limited (AFSL) in the Isle of Man.
Former managing director of AFSML and AFSL Paul Kneen (pictured) will head the new group as chief executive officer. Martin Heaney has been promoted to managing director of AFSL.
Kneen says: “The formation of the Abacus Financial Services Group aims to advance the growth of business across the
BDO has appointed Martin Gouldstone as a director within the corporate finance pharmaceutical team based in Baker Street, London.
He joins with a wealth of experience in the sector, having worked in the biopharma industry for more than 20 years.
Gouldstone joins from the biopharmaceutical development and commercial outsourcing consultancy Quintiles, where he worked as a senior director in the corporate development department and established its product strategy practice within consulting. As part of this role, Gouldstone was responsible for M&A activities across Europe, the Middle East &Africa and acted as the lead on several large client accounts for
Octopus Investments-backed UltraSoC Technologies has appointed Chris Gilbert as non-executive chairman.
Gilbert will play a key role in the development of the company as it enters a phase of growth and market penetration for silicon IP platform UltraDebug.
UltraDebug is expected to bring benefits to the semiconductor ecosystem and providers of sophisticated electronic products.
Gilbert is an experienced executive and highly successful entrepreneur with vast experience in company strategy, globalisation, fundraising, building companies, investor relations and M&A. He has held a series of general management positions in two large US technology companies, Data General and Motorola. At Motorola,
Regulatory reporting specialist KNEIP has promoted Stephanie Noel to head of operations and as a member of the executive board.
As part of her new role, Noel will be responsible for KNEIP’s Regulatory Reporting product, which helps fund managers to comply with transparency requirements under regulation such as the Alternative Investment Fund Management Directive (AIFMD) and UCITS.
She will report directly to Lee Godfrey, deputy CEO at KNEIP.
Noel joined KNEIP in 2001 as a client service coordinator. After moving to the operations side of the business, she helped develop the processes for KNEIP’s production of the Key
Growth equity firm General Atlantic (GA) has appointed Jan-Michiel Hessels, former chairman of NYSE Euronext, as a special advisor in Europe based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Hessels (pictured) brings over 30 years of experience across many industries to the role, and will work closely with GA’s global investment team to identify new investment opportunities as well as provide strategic support for the firm’s portfolio companies.
Hessels currently serves on the board of directors at IntercontinentalExchange Group and on the supervisory board at Royal Boskalis Westminster. From 2000 to 2013, he served as chairman of the board of NYSE Euronext (formerly
Lowenstein Sandler is bolstering its private equity and mergers and acquisitions practices with the addition of private equity M&A lawyer Michael A. Brosse as a partner in its corporate department.
Brosse joins Lowenstein Sandler's New York office from Kirkland & Ellis, where he has been a partner since 2000.
His arrival follows a year in which Lowenstein Sandler experienced growth in its M&A and corporate securities practices, representing financial sponsors, funds and public and private companies.
"The addition of Michael Brosse advances our firm's strategy of continuously broadening and deepening the services that we provide to our rapidly
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