Global alternative asset manager The Carlyle Group has established a team to conduct buyout and growth capital investments in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The team is co-headed by Managing Directors Marlon Chigwende, former Managing Director & Head of Private Equity Africa for Standard Chartered Bank, and Danie Jordaan, former Executive Committee Member and Partner of Ethos Private Equity.   The team also includes Managing Director Genevieve Sangudi, most recently a Partner and Managing Director of Emerging Capital Partners. Jordaan begins his duties immediately while Chigwende and Sangudi will begin in early May.   Greg Summe, Carlyle Managing Director and Vice Chairman

Angelo, Gordon & Co has appointed Mark Visser as a Managing Director with responsibility for leading the firm’s healthcare investment activities. He will be based in New York. Prior to joining Angelo Gordon, Visser, who will be based in New York, was a Partner at Behrman Capital, where he led the firm’s healthcare investing efforts since joining the firm in 1994. Visser has 20 years of experience in the healthcare sector, investing in companies ranging from healthcare services to products. Earlier in his career, Visser worked for Merrill Lynch’s Investment Banking Group focusing on mergers and acquisitions and other corporate finance

The Emerging Markets Private Equity Association (EMPEA) has announced the election of H Jeffrey Leonard, President, CEO and Founding Partner of the Global Environment Fund (GEF), as the next Chairman of the association. Leonard was unanimously elected by the EMPEA Board to a two-year term commencing in May 2011.   Leonard succeeds outgoing Chairman Roger Leeds, one of the founders of the organisation, who in his capacity as Chair since 2004 has helped to build EMPEA into the leading global organisation supporting the development private equity and venture capital industries in emerging economies. ”With EMPEA now on a solid footing

Hamilton Lane, an independent financial institution that provides discretionary and non-discretionary private equity asset management services to sophisticated investors, is expanding its offering in the real estate sector, with the addition of Jerome W. Gates as Managing Director to lead the product area. Gates joins the firm with over 20 years of experience in real estate portfolio management and investment banking and will be responsible for helping the firm bring its clients additional high-value opportunities in the real estate market.  This includes identifying the best managers with a strong track record in real estate, constructing selective and customised investment portfolios,

Ipes Luxembourg has appointed Christophe Ponticello as Client Director and Head of Accounting. Ponticello, whose appointment is in response to exceptionally high demand for the firm’s service offering in Luxembourg, will play a key role in managing client relationships. He will also work closely with Simon Henin, MD for Ipes Luxembourg, on the day-to-day running of the office.   Ponticello has more than eight years experience working in the investment funds industry and with commercial companies. Prior to joining Ipes, he headed the accounting and reporting team for Real Estate and Private Equity funds SIF/SICAR and unregulated entities (Soparfi) at Caceis

Silicon Valley Bank, a financial partner to venture capital, technology and life science companies of all sizes worldwide, has hired former venture capitalist and entrepreneur John Hoesley to run its Venture Capital and Private Equity Services Group in the Midwest.   Based in Silicon Valley Bank’s Chicago office, Hoesley will focus on relationships with venture capital and private equity firms throughout the Midwest, providing them with a full spectrum of banking services and debt financing alternatives. Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) works with more than half of all VC firms worldwide, providing the traditional and innovative financial services required to run

Monroe Capital LLC, a private investment firm focused on investments in middle-market and lower middle-market companies, has appointed Warren Woo as a Partner and Managing Director of its recently closed GBP250 million investment fund, Monroe Capital Partners Fund LP. Woo will lead the Los Angeles office for Monroe Capital and be responsible for covering the West Coast region. The latest Monroe Capital fund will provide senior and junior/mezzanine debt and equity co-investments for private equity-sponsored and privately held businesses undergoing recapitalization, refinancing, acquisition and expansion. Investments will be made across a broad range of manufacturing, distribution and service industry segments,

Burrill & Company has appointed Dr Dirk Lammerts as Managing Director, Digital Health. Lammerts has more than 20 years of professional experience in the healthcare, life sciences, and high-tech industries.   Prior to joining Burrill & Company he worked as Vice President Marketing and Corporate Development at XDx, an innovative personalised medicine company, where he was responsible for driving adoption of the company’s flagship AlloMap molecular diagnostic test and corporate development activities. He also held positions as Vice President Molecular Diagnostics at Affymetrix and was a senior engagement manager for McKinsey & Company advising clients across a broad spectrum of

Glocap Search has named Sachi Gahan as head of the firm’s newly combined Venture Capital and Private Equity practices. Gahan, who was also promoted to Glocap’s five member management committee, is a managing director based in Glocap’s San Francisco office.   Prior to joining Glocap Gahan was a principal at venture capital firms in San Francisco and Austin, Texas. Earlier in her career, she was in the Office of the Chairman at Dell. In 2010, under Gahan’s leadership, Glocap successfully completed over forty investment professional assignments at venture capital, growth equity, and tech buyout firms throughout the US, addressing clients’ needs