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BUMP Network has appointed hedge fund manager Gregg Parise as its new president and chief financial officer.
In his dual roles, Parise (pictured) will continue to build value in the company and manage its team and operations.
Parise will report directly to Mitch Thrower, the chief executive and chairman of BUMP Network.
Parise has 20 years of portfolio management and financial market experience. He has spent the last 12 years as the founder and portfolio manager of various long/short equity hedge funds, including LINC Asset Management, Calimar Capital and Dorado Capital Management.
Parise began his career
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts has appointed Joseph J Plumeri, former chairman and chief executive officer of The Willis Group, as a senior advisor.
Plumeri (pictured) is also joining the board of directors of First Data, a KKR portfolio company.
Plumeri served 12 years as Willis Group chairman and chief executive and as its non-executive chairman through July 2013. Under his leadership, Prior to joining Willis, Plumeri had a 32-year career at Citigroup and its predecessor companies. As CEO of Citibank North America, he led the integration of the consumer businesses at Citicorp and Travelers Group. He also served as
Bank of the West has appointed John C Thurston, the bank’s commercial banking regional manager in Chicago, to also head the bank’s private equity team.
In addition to his role of developing and managing relationships with middle-market companies in Chicago and the surrounding area, Thurston (pictured) now also leads a team of bankers dedicated to building and expanding relationships with private equity firms and financing their middle-market portfolio companies across the US.
"As a relationship lender, Bank of the West has strong ties with numerous private equity firms that have well-articulated strategies, solid investment track records, and a
GMT Communications Partners has appointed Jonny Maxwell as senior advisor.
Maxwell (pictured) brings a wealth of general and limited partners’ perspective spanning almost 30 years, having managed and raised many successful funds during that time.
GMT is a private equity investor in the technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) sector, actively investing in the European marketplace for the past 20 years.
Formerly global head of private equity fund of funds at Allianz Private Equity Partners, Maxwell had overall responsibility for indirect private equity activities. Allianz, one of the world’s largest insurance companies, then managed in excess of EUR6.4bn
Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking’s acquisition finance division has appointed Eric Jenkins as a director.
The experienced hire supports the bank’s offering to private equity firms and corporates targeting buyouts and refinancings in the large deals segment (EUR500m plus of debt), including those transactions funded via the high yield bond market.
Jenkins, who has more than 15 years’ high yield and leveraged loan product experience, joins from Morgan Stanley where he spent seven years in leveraged and acquisition finance. Working across the business’ London and New York offices, he led the origination and execution of a number of high
Alternative asset manager The Carlyle Group has appointed Susan E Arnold, former Procter & Gamble president of global business units, as an operating executive in its global consumer and retail group.
She takes up her post in September.
As an operating executive, Arnold (pictured) will provide strategic guidance to Carlyle professionals throughout the investment process, from sourcing to acquisition to exit and advise portfolio company executives on management, operational, branding and growth strategies. She joins a group of 24 senior business executives – with an average of 40 years of experience – who help Carlyle create value across
Revelry Brands, an investment firm focused on providing growth-stage private equity in the natural foods and consumer products categories, has named Gil Fronzaglia as chief operating officer and Seth Beers as chief financial officer.
"The addition of both Mr Beers and Mr Fronzaglia adds significant depth to our executive team," says Brendan Synnott, co-founder of Revelry Brands. "Their unique understanding of the natural products consumer coupled with proven track records of accelerating growth at early-stage companies makes both gentlemen a very welcome addition to Revelry."
Fronzaglia joins Revelry with a significant background in helping private equity backed, high-growth
Ares Management has appointed William Hickey, the former chairman and chief executive of Sealed Air Corp, as an operating advisor to the firm’s private equity group, where he will assist in the sourcing and evaluation of new investment opportunities.
"We are extremely pleased that Bill has chosen to partner with Ares in the next stage of his illustrious career,” say Bennett Rosenthal and David Kaplan, global co-heads of the Ares private equity group. “Bill was instrumental in the development of Sealed Air Corp. into one of the largest packaging companies in the world. His relationships and experiences will be invaluable
Consonance Capital Partners has appointed Nancy-Ann DeParle, an expert in healthcare policy and finance, as a partner.
Consonance Capital Partners focuses exclusively on private equity investing in the US lower middle market healthcare industry.
A top official in both the Obama and Clinton Administrations, DeParle (pictured) will re-join her former partners Mitchell Blutt, Benjamin Edmands and Stephen McKenna, who worked together for over a decade at JPMorgan Partners and its successor and predecessor entities.
From 2009 to January 2013, DeParle served in the Obama White House, first as counsellor to the President and director of the White
Allegis Capital, an early-stage venture capital firm, has appointed four security executives as partners.
The new partners expand Allegis Capital’s expertise and depth in cyber security, an active area of early-stage investing and primary focus of the firm for more than 10 years.
The executives include: Nawaf Bitar, senior vice president and general manager of the security business unit of Juniper Networks; Dr. Hossein Eslambolchi, founder and CEO of CyberFlow Analytics, cyber security analytics company; Tom Gillis, the co-founder and CEO of a new secure software platform company in stealth mode and formerly vice president and general manager
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