Private Equity
Equity Trust Co said March 20 that George Sullivan was named CEO. Sullivan is former executive vice president, global head of State Street Corp’s alternative investment solutions group.
2 min read · 20 March 2019
Orchid Underwriters Agency LLC, a TowerBrook Capital Partners portfolio company, said March 20 that John L. Lumelleau has joined as chairman. Lumelleau succeeds Steve Carlsen who will remain on the board and will lead a newly created underwriting committee. Lumelleau previously served as the CEO of Lockton Cos.
3 min read · 20 March 2019
SigFig said March 20 that Anne Morrissey was named CFO. Morrissey has nearly a decade of financial services experience with JPMorgan Chase & Co and Salomon Smith Barney, while also working at Fitbit and LeapFrog, as well as Yahoo!'s investor relations division.
2 min read · 20 March 2019
Carlyle Group said March 19 that Christopher Finn was named chief operating officer. Finn has served as chief operating officer of Carlyle’s corporate private equity and global credit business segments and took the position of global head of operations in January 2018.
2 min read · 20 March 2019
Temasek Holdings Pte has promoted Dilhan Pillay Sandrasegara to CEO effective April 1, according to press reports. Pillay, currently deputy chief executive, will succeed Lee Theng Kiat, who will replace Ho Ching as chairman on the same day, the story said.
1 min read · 20 March 2019
Charlesbank Capital Partners hired Carolyn Wintner as head of capital markets. Wintner joined Charlesbank from Bain Capital Credit, where she worked most recently as a director.
2 min read · 19 March 2019
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher hired William Sorabella as a partner working on public company and private equity mergers and acquisitions. Sorabella joins from Kirkland & Ellis.
3 min read · 19 March 2019
Pantheon hired Roland Smart to lead and develop its marketing department. Smart is the author of "The Agile Marketer" and is co-founder of The Business Agility Institute. His hiring comes after a recent $40 million investment in Pantheon to expand its marketing and sales team.
2 min read · 19 March 2019
Waldemar Szlezak has joined KKR and will lead the firm’s communications infrastructure investments in the Americas, his LinkedIn profile said. Szlezak is a former senior managing director of Soros Fund Management LLC’s private equity group, LinkedIn said. Szlezak will help spearhead KKR’s push into communications, a growing area of infrastructure investing, said the Wall Street Journal, which first reported Szlezak’s move.
1 min read · 19 March 2019
Hugh O’Reilly has resigned as president and CEO of OPTrust, effective immediately. O’Reilly left to "pursue other interests," OPTrust said. O’Reilly has led the Canadian pension fund manager since 2015, when he joined from the pension benefits and insolvency practice group of law firm Cavalluzzo Shilton McIntyre Cornish LLP. CFO Doug Michael stepped in as interim president and CEO. With assets of more than $20 billion, OPTrust invests and manages OPSEU Pension Plan. It invests in private equity and infrastructure through OPTrust Private Markets Group.
2 min read · 18 March 2019
