This week peHUB has earmarked a position for business development director at invention capital company Intellectual Ventures.
2 min read · 15 November 2012
Accordion Partners, has launched in Dubai. The firm is a specialized financial services business whoser clients include investment companies, corporations, banks, sovereign wealth funds and family offices.
4 min read · 15 November 2012
Blackthorne Partners has acquired Berlon Industries, a manufacturer of high quality buckets and attachments for skid loaders, telehandlers and compact utility tractors. In conjunction with the acquisition, Mike Ebben, an experienced manufacturing industry professional, has been hired to serve as Berlon’s president.
2 min read · 15 November 2012
BioData, a life science research and lab management service, has appointed Adam Sartiel as the company's new CEO. Sartiel joins BioData after 15 years as an executive in both Israeli and American biotechnology companies.
2 min read · 15 November 2012
Silicon Valley Bank has appointed Bindi Karia to the bank's UK Branch to lead its efforts in the early stage accelerator space. Karia, currently the venture capital/emerging business lead at Microsoft UK, will begin the newly created role in January 2013, reporting to Phil Cox, head of EMEA & India and president of the bank's UK branch.
3 min read · 15 November 2012
Business technology solutions provider Avanade is to acquire Azaleos Corporation, headquartered in Seattle. Azaleos is a Microsoft Exchange and messaging company backed by Ignition Partners and Second Avenue Partners.
6 min read · 15 November 2012
Starbucks Coffee Company is to acquire Teavana Holdings in an all-cash acquisition. Teavana is a specialty retailer offering more than 100 varieties of premium loose-leaf teas, authentic artisanal teawares and other tea-related merchandise through 300 company-owned stores and on its website.
7 min read · 15 November 2012
Kennet Partners, a technology growth equity investor, has appointed Neil Cooper as finance director. Cooper joins Kennet from Robert W. Baird Group, where he was financial controller, a role he previously held at Advent Venture Partners.
1 min read · 15 November 2012
Javier G. Teruel and Javier Garcia-Teruel, co-founders of Spectron Desarrollo, have agreed to join forces with Alta Growth Capital in Mexico. Founded in 2006, Alta Growth Capital is a private equity firm focused on growth equity investments in middle market companies in Mexico.
3 min read · 15 November 2012
This morning's First Read brings news of Apollo's latest fundraising, a private equity identity crisis and Blackstone's new solar program.
1 min read · 15 November 2012
