Private Equity
Spine & Sport Physical Therapy, which is backed by Great Point Partners, has appointed Adam Elberg as chairman of the board. Elberg is the co-founder of Professional Physical Therapy. San Diego-based Spine & Sport Physical Therapy is a provider of physical therapy and rehabilitation services.
3 min read · 23 September 2019
Houlihan Lokey hired ex-UBS executive Shea Goggin as head of U.S. on the private funds group. Goggin joins from UBS, where he worked as co-head of distribution on the private funds group. Also, Greg Pupo, senior vice president in Houlihan's private funds group, relocated to the firm's San Francisco office to build on the group's West Coast coverage of GPs and LPs.
3 min read · 23 September 2019
LLR Partners has named Geoff Baird as senior managing director of the firm's value creation team. Prior to joining LLR, Baird was an operating executive at Tailwind Capital.
2 min read · 23 September 2019
Rockefeller Capital Management has named Shelly Lazarus and Marty Mannion to its board of directors. Lazarus is the former CEO of Ogilvy & Mather while Mannion is an ex-managing director at Summit Partners.
3 min read · 23 September 2019
H.I.G. Capital said Sept. 23 that it hired Ed Pallesen to lead its infrastructure team in the U.S. Pallesen was previously a managing director at Goldman Sachs, where he led the Americas team at the Goldman Sachs Infrastructure fund.
3 min read · 23 September 2019
FinnCap Group plc said Sept. 23 that Leigh Webb has joined the firm. Webb will head finnCap’s private equity sponsor coverage and expand its M&A advisory business across the mid-market private equity community. He was previously associate director of RSM.
3 min read · 23 September 2019
KKR has named Diego Piacentini as a senior adviser. He is a former senior vice president of Apple's international consumer business.
3 min read · 20 September 2019
Altamar Capital Partners hired Pilar Junco as managing partner and chief strategy and client officer. Junco formerly worked at Blackstone Group, where she was most recently a senior managing director and head of non-U.S. private wealth management and retail business. Before, Junco worked at Boston Consulting Group, JP Morgan and the Financial Times.
3 min read · 20 September 2019
Gridiron Capital LLC has promoted Chris King and Doug Rosenstein to principal. Both joined the investment firm in 2015 as senior associates and were promoted to vice president in 2016.
3 min read · 19 September 2019
JenaValve Technology Inc, a maker of transcatheter aortic valve replacement systems, has named Dr. Vinny Podichetty as vice president of clinical affairs and Jeff Thiel as vice president of operations. The appointments became effective immediately. JenaValve’s backers include Atlas Venture, Edmond de Rothschild Investment Partners, Gimv, Legend Capital, NeoMed Management, Omega Funds, RMM, Sunstone Capital, Valiance and VI Partners.
3 min read · 19 September 2019
