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LBO France has appointed Etienne Colas as managing director within the operating team.
The operating team was put in place by LBO France to help support its underlying portfolio companies and to generate value creation. The team’s mission is to structure the value creation process by working with the portfolio company’s management.
Composed of three members, the operating team reports directly to LBO France’s executive board. Colas joins Guy Latourrette, former chief executive of La Redoute and Devanlay-Lacoste, and Gilles Taldu, partner and member of LBO France’s executive board and former manager of Thomson and Capgemini.
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Private investment firm HarbourVest Partners has appointed Olav König as a managing director and head of sales and client service for Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
In this role König, a German national and a lawyer by background, will expand and enhance HarbourVest’s relationships with investors and their advisers in the EMEA geographic region.
“We are very pleased to have Olav join our team,” says George Anson, managing director at HarbourVest. “He brings extensive experience of working with clients in private markets, and as investors work to navigate the post-AIFMD environment, that experience will be particularly valuable.”
AXA Private Equity has appointed Juan Angoitia as managing director in the infrastructure team based in the Paris office.
AXA Private Equity’s infrastructure team has USD4bn of assets under management.
Angoitia has 15 years’ experience within the infrastructure industry. Prior to joining AXA Private Equity, he spent five years at Citi Infrastructure Investors (CII) as investment principal based in London. At CII, Angoitia managed the firm’s investments in Kelda, a holding company of Yorkshire Water in the UK, and in Itinere Infraestructuras in Spain.
The appointment follows a number of key developments for AXA Private Equity in
Matthew McAskin has joined the Evercore’s investment banking business as a senior managing director in its healthcare group.
He will be based in New York and will focus on advising clients in the healthcare services sector.
McAskin was most recently a managing director and co-head of healthcare services investment banking at Goldman Sachs. With over 17 years of banking experience at Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan, McAskin has extensive experience advising a broad array of healthcare services companies and private equity firms, and he has advised on a number of the most recent notable transactions in the hospital, managed
Foundation Capital has named Jonathan Ehrlich as partner at the firm.
Ehrlich (pictured), a former director of marketing at Facebook, will concentrate on identifying and investing in early-stage consumer, mobile, and small business oriented startups and technologies.
“Jonathan is everything Foundation Capital looks for in a partner,” says Charles Moldow, general partner at Foundation Capital. “He has tremendous operating experience, a strong rapport with entrepreneurs and knows what it’s like to be on the front lines of the VC world. We couldn’t be more excited to have him find new projects and look forward to the immediate value
Katherine Woodthorpe is retiring from her role as chief executive of The Australian Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (AVCAL).
Woodthorpe says that after seven years in the role, the time is right for her to pursue fresh challenges.
AVCAL’s chairman John White says: “Shortly after Katherine joined AVCAL as CEO, private equity was in the regulatory spotlight in the US, UK and Australia. Katherine was instrumental in assembling the evidence to show that PE had an overwhelmingly positive impact on the Australian economy. Since that time, Dr Woodthorpe and her team have done much to build a better understanding
The Riverside Company has added two industry veterans as advisors to its European team to help identify investment opportunities and contribute to existing investments.
They join a growing global team of 10 advisors.
Kai Lucks comes to Riverside after 35 years at Siemens, where he ran businesses in fields ranging from engineering to nuclear power to medical equipment. He will support Riverside’s transactions in the industrial and technology fields, predominantly across Europe. Lucks spent his last decade as global head of M&A integration at Siemens, where he and his team oversaw approximately 1,500 acquisitions. In 2007, he was
Tikehau Group has strengthened its private debt team with the appointments of Cécile Mayer-Levi in Paris and Patrick Marshall in London.
Mayer-Levi, 48, has over 26 years of experience in financing investment and corporate finance.
A graduate of HEC, she began her career at Merrill Lynch in the corporate finance department and M&A in Paris and New York. In 1991, she joined ELIG, one of France’s pioneers in capital investment. In 2001, she joined Mezzanis, the mezzanine fund of Credit Lyonnais Private Equity. From September 2005 until March 2013, she launched and developed the private debt activity at
Blackstone Advisory Partners has appointed Karl Knapp as a senior managing director based in New York to head up the group’s global industrials practice.
Knapp brings over 20 years of dedicated industry experience, most recently as the head of the global industrials group at UBS and a vice chairman of UBS’ investment banking division.
Transactions led by Knapp include: advising Anglo-American Corporation on its USD8bn demerger of its paper and packaging subsidiary, Mondi; Stora-Enso on the sale of its North American Papers Division for USD2.5bn; International Paper on its USD4.3bn acquisition of Temple-Inland; and, most recently, advising Koch
Business Talent Group, which brings organisations and top-tier independent professionals together to drive change and address business challenges, has added director Paul Tufaro to its client development team.
With more than six years of investment banking and private equity experience, and an MBA from Georgetown University, Tufaro will work from BTG’s New York office to serve organisations across the region.
“I look forward to leveraging my private equity experience and retail investment banking background to educate companies about the power of this model,” Tufaro says.
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