Medient Studios, a Hollywood, Calif.-based film production and distribution company, has appointed Matthew Mellon and Joseph Giamichael to its board. Mellon, a descendant of the banking family, is himself an entrepreneur and investor. Giamichael is the founder and CEO of Umbrella Research and Advisory, an emerging growth research and advisory financial services boutique.
3 min read · 08 November 2012
Not Your Average Joe's, a Middleborough, Mass.-based casual dining chain, has completed a growth investment led by New York-based private equity firm Bruckmann, Rosser, Sherrill & Co.
2 min read · 08 November 2012
Berenson & Company, a New York-based merchant banking firm, has hired Jonathan Newcomb as a managing director. Newcomb, the current chairman of the information services company Swets, was previously chairman and CEO of Simon & Schuster, and president of the McGraw Hill Financial Information Group.
2 min read · 08 November 2012
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer could do worse than looking to her former Google colleague Tim Armstrong for tips on how to run an ailing Internet giant.
3 min read · 08 November 2012
There’s no shortage of professional networks available to those looking for salaried jobs, but job seekers in search of hourly shifts are pretty much limited to either scouring Craiglist or simply hoofing it from business to business. Chicago-based Shiftgig hopes to change that by focusing on the overlooked.
4 min read · 07 November 2012
Sunrise Medical, a New York-based maker of high-end wheelchairs and seating systems that was controlled by Vestar Capital Partners, is being acquired by Equistone Partners Europe, the former buyouts business of Barclays. Terms of the deal aren't being disclosed.
4 min read · 06 November 2012
Lumension, a Scottsdale, Ariz.-based security software company, has completed its acquisition of Austin-based CoreTrace Corporation, whose software tries to battle malware and other "unknown executables." Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
2 min read · 06 November 2012
Bazaarvoice, an online customer ratings and review service that went public last February, has appointed Stephen Collins as its new CEO. Collins, who has been the company's CFO since 2010, succeeds company cofounder Brett Hurt, who has been CEO since Bazaarvoice's 2005 inception. Bazaarvoice has also acquired the vertical ad media Longboard Media for roughly $27 million. Longboard, founded in 2008, had raised $6 million from investors.
7 min read · 06 November 2012
Houston-based Sidewinder Drilling, a land-drilling company controlled by the private equity firm Avista Capital Partners, has acquired Union Drilling of Fort Worth, Tx., after Union shareholders tendered more than 75 percent of the company's outstanding shares to Sidewinder.
4 min read · 06 November 2012
John Wiley & Sons, the publicly traded publishing company,has acquired Efficient Learning Systems (ELS), an e-learning system provider in areas like professional finance and accounting, for $24 million.
3 min read · 06 November 2012
