M/C Venture Partners, a venture capital firm focused exclusively on the communications, media, and information technology sectors, has appointed Lydia Jett and Matthew Saretsky as senior associate and associate to its investment team. They will assist with investment sourcing and due diligence, and provide support to portfolio companies. “We are pleased to welcome Lydia and Matt to the M/C Venture Partners team,” says Jim Wade, managing general partner at M/C. “Their combination of valuable experience and industry background will contribute to our ability to evaluate, identify and support promising new opportunities in the media and communications industry segments.” Jett’s (pictured)

Kohlberg has appointed Andrew P. Bonanno as managing director of business development. Bonanno, who will be based in the firm’s Mt. Kisco office, had most recently served as vice president of business development for American Capital’s New York-based buyouts team. In his new role, Bonanno will primarily be responsible for building relationships with the firm’s external deal sources, as well as developing and leading Kohlberg’s proprietary investment sourcing programs. Bonanno brings more than 14 years of principal investment experience. In his previous capacity at American Capital, Bonanno spearheaded the New York buyouts team’s go-to-market strategy and relationship management efforts. Prior

Benchmark Capital, an early-stage technology venture capital firm, has appointed Michael Wolfe as an entrepreneur-in-residence. This is the second time Wolfe (pictured) has been an entrepreneur-in-residence at Benchmark. His last Benchmark-backed company, Vontu, was acquired by Symantec in 2007. After the Vontu acquisition, Wolfe served Symantec in a broader role as chief technology officer for the company’s enterprise product group. "Benchmark is entirely dedicated to the entrepreneur’s success, and they act on that by making substantial investments in the people they work with," says Wolfe. "That commitment, and the structure of the firm as an equal partnership, puts their focus

Accel Partners, a global venture capital and growth equity firm, has appointed Neeraj Bharadwaj as a managing director to help build its growth equity investing initiative in India. Bharadwaj (pictured) joins Accel from Apax Partners India, where he was managing director and country head. At Accel, he will be responsible for scaling the growth stage effort, which will target USD10m to USD50m investments in mid-sized Indian companies across different sectors. This initiative will complement Accel’s existing venture capital activity in India, which targets smaller investments and active involvement in high potential early stage companies. The Accel India venture portfolio includes

Apax Partners, one of the world’s largest private equity firms, has appointed Sandeep Naik and Shashank Singh as co-heads of the India office. Naik (pictured) and Singh both joined the firm in 2004 in the New York and London offices, respectively, and relocated to co-found the India office in 2006. They will be replacing Neeraj Bharadwaj, who is leaving the firm to join a US growth capital firm. Apax Partners opened its Mumbai office in 2006 and made its first direct investment in the region in 2007 with the acquisition of a significant minority stake in Apollo Hospitals, India’s largest

General Atlantic, a global growth equity firm, has promoted Adrianna Ma to managing director and Jing Hong to principal. Ma (pictured) is based in New York and leads GA’s global energy and resources sector. Hong is a senior professional in the firm’s Beijing office and focuses on investments in China. "Adrianna is an extremely talented investment professional, and we especially appreciate the work she has done in the past two years building out our energy and resources sector, which we consider an important area of investment opportunities," says William E. Ford, chief executive of General Atlantic. "We are very pleased

Intersouth Partners, a venture capital firm that provides entrepreneurs with early stage capital, has named Katrin Burt and James Rosen as partners. Burt (pictured) has been an associate of the firm since 2007 as a member of the technology team. She joined Intersouth in 2004 as an analyst, working with the firm’s investment team on the analysis of potential new investments and the growth of Intersouth’s existing portfolio companies. Burt joined Intersouth from HSBC, where she was a foreign exchange trader in London, managed portfolios of treasury products and equities in Tokyo and eventually moved to a business development role