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Private equity firm Z Capital Partners has promoted four members of its team – Martin J Auerbach, Christopher J Kipley, Rahul Sawhney and Jonathan Schmugge – to senior managing director and partner.
All four individuals were previously managing directors.
James Zenni, president and chief executive of Z Capital Partners, says: "We are pleased to recognise the achievements and hard work of these outstanding professionals. Our new senior managing directors have made outstanding contributions during their tenure with Z Capital Partners and we look forward to their continued success."
Global venture capital firm New Enterprise Associates (NEA) has named Dayna Grayson as Partner. A venture capitalist with operational and product development expertise, Grayson will work with NEA’s East Coast technology team, focusing on early-stage investments in enterprise and consumer internet companies.
"Dayna is a talented investor who is intensely focused on fostering entrepreneurship and has deep roots in the East Coast venture capital ecosystem," says Peter Barris, Managing General Partner, NEA. "As NEA increases our investment focus on thriving technology and life sciences hubs spanning the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic and Midwest, we believe Dayna will be an outstanding addition to
The European Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (EVCA) has recruited James Crisp as its new media manager.
Crisp is responsible for the EVCA’s media relations, website and social media communications.
An experienced journalist, Crisp joins the EVCA from the Brussels office of MLex Market Intelligence, a global news agency specialising in EU financial services regulation and competition law.
Previously, he spent 10 years working for UK local and national newspapers, magazines and on radio.
Global management consultancy firm AT Kearney has appointed Alberto Fumo as senior principal to reinforce the company’s position in private equity consultancy.
This appointment is part of the continued growth the practice has experienced, and will expand its presence in the UK and Europe.
Fumo has 14 years of private equity consulting and corporate strategy experience. During his career he has become a leading practitioner in private equity consulting gaining significant expertise in corporate merger and acquisition deals, private equity transactions, marketing strategy in consumer/luxury product goods and media/entertainment, and corporate turnaround and transformation.
Fumo says: “AT Kearney’s private
Law firm Goodwin Procter has named Bradley Bugdanowitz as chair of its San Francisco office.
Bugdanowitz (pictured) is a partner in Goodwin’s business law department and a member of its private equity, technology companies and life sciences groups, focusing on merger and acquisition transactions, securities offerings and corporate governance. He joined Goodwin as a partner in 2008.
Bugdanowitz works with clients in structuring and executing minority and control investments, acquisitions and dispositions as well as public and private securities offerings. His recently completed transactions include representing JMI Equity in its investment in Paradigm; NIKE in its strategic partnership with DyeCoo
SL Capital Partners, a private equity fund of funds manager, has promoted Patrick Knechtli and Mark Nicolson to the position of partner and Jamie Ebersole to managing director.
These promotions will be effective on 1 January 2013.
Knechtli (pictured), who joined SL Capital’s Edinburgh office in 2009, will lead the firm’s secondary investment programme, an area in which SL Capital has been increasingly active and which it plans to expand further. He will also take a lead role in pursuing and transacting primary fund investments and direct co-investment opportunities.
Nicolson, who joined SL Capital in 2007, will focus on
Origo Partners has appointed Shonaid Jemmett-Page as a non-executive director and vice chairman of the company with immediate effect.
She succeeds Christopher Jemmett as vice chairman who will become senior independent director of the company.
Jemmett-Page (pictured), a chartered accountant, has more than 30 years’ experience as a senior executive working in private equity, consumer goods and financial services in Asia and the developing world. She also has considerable board level experience and is currently a non-executive director of Amlin, Close Brothers Group, GKN and APR Energy. Previously she was a non-executive director at Havelock Europa between 2008 and
Diversified private equity firm AXA Private Equity has appointed Benoît Verbrugghe as a member of its executive board.
Verbrugghe (pictured) will remain head of the New York office as AXA Private Equity continues to expand its business in North America.
Dominique Senequier, chief executive of AXA Private Equity, says: “We look forward to bringing Benoît’s insight and experience of the American market to the executive board. His elevation is also recognition of his significant contribution to the development of the firm’s deal-making and fund-raising capabilities. Benoît has led the development of the secondaries business across North America and asserted
Private equity firm CVC Capital Partners has appointed James (Jim) Schiro as a senior adviser to the firm.
Schiro (pictured) will become a member of CVC’s US and global financial institutions advisory boards to support CVC’s investment activities in the US and in the financial services sector globally.
Schiro has extensive experience in the financial services industry, having held management positions at a number of large, global organisations. From 2002 to 2009, Schiro served as chairman of the group management board and chief executive officer of Zurich Financial Services. Prior to joining Zurich Financial Services, Schiro served as chief executive
David Bresnick is to join Morrison & Foerster’s London office as a partner in the corporate practice.
Bresnick (pictured) represents technology and telecom companies in mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, private equity investments and related matters.
Bresnick joins the firm from CMS Cameron McKenna’s London office, where he headed the firm’s private equity group and led the firm’s corporate telecoms, media and technology group.
His addition, which follows the arrival in London earlier this year of corporate and private equity partner Justin Stock, continues the firm’s strategic expansion of its private equity, M&A and cross-border transactional capabilities in key financial
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