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KKR has appointed Kerryann Benjamin as Chief Diversity Officer and Head of Talent Management, effective immediately. In this role, Benjamin will be based in New York and will drive KKR’s diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) strategy, a strategic priority for the firm, as well as KKR’s global talent development strategy.
Benjamin joins KKR from Goldman Sachs & Co, where she spent nearly two decades in various roles across the business and Human Capital Management team, including as Head of Human Capital Management for their Consumer and Wealth Management business. Throughout her time at Goldman Sachs & Co, Benjamin also held
Gresham House, a specialist alternative asset manager, has agreed to acquire the Venture Capital Trust (VCT) business (GBP369 million AUM) of Mobeus Equity Partners (Mobeus).
Dynamo Software, a provider of comprehensive cloud software for the alternative investment management industry, has secured strategic growth investment from funds managed by Blackstone Growth (BXG).
Existing investor Francisco Partners will also reinvest in the company, which has grown rapidly the last four years.
The investment will help drive Dynamo’s expansion into new global markets and continued product development to best serve fund managers, deal teams, asset owners/allocators and other industry participants across the alternative investment landscape. With over 1,000 clients worldwide, Dynamo’s integrated software provides solutions for front, middle and back office challenges. The Dynamo cloud platform covers key
Fulfilld, a US based warehouse management orchestration platform, has raised USD2.5 million in an oversubscribed seed funding round led by TenOneTen Ventures and co-led by Pi Labs, Europe’s most active proptech VC.
Other investors in the round included seed stage venture fund Matchstick and former CEO of Amazon’s worldwide consumer business, Jeff Wilke.
The company was launched by serial entrepreneurs Yosh Eisbart, Michael Pytel, and Rick Fischer who previously founded and bootstrapped enterprise software and services firm NIMBL, ultimately selling to a publicly traded European competitor in 2018. At the time of their exit in August 2020, NIMBL was a
Align Capital Partners’ (ACP) market advisory, tax and management consulting firm, WilliamsMarston (“WilliamsMarston” or the “Firm”) has acquired Chord Advisors (“Chord”), a provider of accounting advisory services.
Founded in 2012, Chord Advisors is headquartered in Newport Beach, CA. With more than 30 professionals and approximately 500 clients, Chord Advisors offers specialised accounting advisory services, including IPO readiness and technical accounting support to its diverse client base. This transaction marks the second acquisition that WilliamsMarston has completed in the past year and brings the Firm’s headcount to more than 100 seasoned professionals and approximately 1,000 clients, with offices in Boston,
Leading international law firm RPC has advised the management team of Asta Capital Limited (Asta) on the sale of Asta to Davies Group Limited (Davies).
Asta is the leading third party managing agency at Lloyd’s providing a range of solutions to Lloyd’s and non-Lloyd’s business across the insurance life cycle, and is a key contributor to market innovations from formalisation of the syndicate framework to the development of the Lloyd’s Syndicate-in-a-box framework.
Davies is a leading specialist professional services and technology business serving the insurance and highly regulated markets. It recently concluded a deal for BC Partners to take a
Private investor The Riverside Company has acquired Knowcross through its platform UniFocus. Based in New Delhi, India, Knowcross provides hotel operations management software that covers housekeeping management, guest request and service request management, preventative maintenance and other work order-related solutions to the hospitality industry.
Based in Carrollton, Texas, UniFocus has thrived as an industry leader in workforce optimisation, ensuring its customers have the most advanced solutions in the industry for more than 20 years. The company’s workforce solutions enable customers to automatically predict property-level labor needs across all types of on-site employees, leveraging hundreds of historical internal and external data points.
Netrix, a provider of managed and professional IT services, with a core focus on cloud, security, collaboration, ITSM and application development solutions, has closed the acquisition of PSC Group.
The acquisition adds significant scale to Netrix’s cloud application development and data intelligence practices, leveraging both Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services.
“I’m excited to welcome our new colleagues from PSC to Netrix today,” says Rob Dang, CEO of Netrix. “PSC supports an attractive base of midsize and enterprise customers and has a strong track record for properly advising them. The PSC team is full of experts that help their
International private equity firm, Cinven is to make a majority investment in UK financial services group True Potential. Financial details of the transaction have not been disclosed.
True Potential operates across the wealth management value chain, providing advice, investment platform and fund solutions to more than 1.4 million retail clients in the UK. The company has a highly scalable business model, having built a bespoke and proprietary technology platform to serve both financial advisers and clients.
Headquartered in Newcastle, UK, True Potential was founded in 2007 by Chairman David Harrison and CEO Daniel Harrison. The business employs more than
Conservice, a utility management platform for the property management industry, has acquired Goby, an ESG Platform serving the commercial real estate and fund management industries.
The acquisition will further enable Conservice clients to reduce their environmental impact, achieve their sustainability goals, and increase their return on investment.
“The addition of Goby will enable Conservice to offer our clients a comprehensive ESG solution, from data capture, which is where we already excel, to analysis and disclosure,” says Scott Hardy, CEO of Conservice. “Our new Sustainability Solutions offering will empower clients to create effective strategies and plans, measure outcomes, and report progress
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