Venture capital and growth equity firm Crosslink Capital has appointed David Courtney as general partner and chief operating officer. His responsibilities include direct oversight of operations, finance, compliance and human resources. He reports to Michael Stark, founder and general partner of Crosslink Capital, and is based in the firm’s San Francisco headquarters. “The chief operating officer is an important component of our leadership team at Crosslink,” says Stark. “We have known David for many years. He has exceptional operational and leadership skills, as well as a strong background in compliance that will further strengthen the team we have in place

Phoenix Equity Partners, the UK mid-market private equity investor, has appointed Hugh Lenon as part-time chairman with immediate effect. At the same time, the firm has appointed Sandy Muirhead as chairman of Phoenix’s investment committee and James Thomas as chairman of its management committee. Lenon (pictured) has been active in the private equity investment sector for over 25 years and in 2010/11 was also chairman of the BVCA, the UK’s private equity and venture capital sector trade body. Since co-founding the business in 2001, Lenon has been one of three managing partners at Phoenix, together with Muirhead and Thomas. Muirhead

Energy Investors Funds (EIF) has promoted eight of its senior staff. Mitch Coddington (pictured) and Mark Segel have been promoted to senior partner from partner. Keith Derman, Warren MacGillivray, Andrew Pike, Cam Reese, Jose Torres-Monllor, and Mark Voccola have been promoted to partner from senior vice president. All promotions are effective as of 1 January 2013. “We’re thrilled to announce these promotions, which reflect the outstanding contributions these individuals have made to EIF over their years with the firm,” say John Buehler, Terence Darby and Herbert Magid, the managing partners of EIF. “We believe the high quality of our staff

Kuber Ventures, the first full service multi-manager platform for Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) portfolios, has appointed Brett Williams in an advisory role to the senior management team. Williams (pictured), who has acted as chief executive of both Skandia UK and Cofunds, brings extensive experience of mainstream platforms to the EIS space, which Kuber believes is at a similar level of maturity to the mutual funds platform market of a decade ago. This market increased almost threefold in 2011, which Kuber and Williams largely attribute to the introduction of platforms, and he forsees a repeat of this growth in EIS.  

The European Private Equity & Venture Capital Association (EVCA) has appointed Michael Collins as public affairs director. Collins (pictured) will direct the EVCA’s political advocacy and regulatory affairs strategy, taking responsibility for all policy areas affecting the European private equity and venture capital industry and heading up the association’s policy department. He will develop the EVCA’s long-term public affairs vision, coordinate advocacy work with associated organisations and ensure that the EVCA maintains its effective engagement with EU and national stakeholders in high-level policy discussions. EVCA secretary-general Dörte Höppner says: "The EVCA was founded 30 years ago to promote and sustain

Hamilton Lane, a private equity asset management firm, is expanding its Europe-based presence with the addition of Paul Waller to the newly-created role of partner in its London office. Waller (pictured) will focus primarily on client development and overall firm marketing initiatives. He will also draw upon his extensive experience and background in private equity investment and alternative assets to provide strategic support to the firm.   Waller, who recently retired from 3i after 35 years, brings a wealth of investment knowledge and a broad network throughout Europe and the Middle East, as well as Asia and North America. At