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ACM promotes Feeney to partner

Advisors Capital Management, a registered investment advisory firm, has promoted Dr. JoAnne Feeney to partner. Feeney joined the firm in 2015 as a portfolio manager and a member of the firm's investment committee.

E78 Advisors promotes two to director

Element 78 Advisors has promoted George Miralaeff and Scott Netzley to director. E78 Advisors is a business advisory firm that works with private equity firms and their portfolio companies.

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Private Equity Jobs of the Week: Goldman Sachs, Prudential and LAVCA are hiring

This week’s jobs include a private equity vice president at Goldman Sachs, a senior investment professional at Prudential and a senior analyst/associate at Teacher Retirement System of Texas.

Editas CFO to join Bain Capital: Boston Business Journal

Editas Medicine Inc said Dec. 21 that CFO Andrew Hack, M.D., Ph.D., is stepping down effective March 1. Editas said he is returning to the investment industry. The Boston Business Journal is reporting that Hack is joining Bain Capital as a managing director. Editas is a genome editing company.

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New Senior adds two EVPs to team

New Senior Investment Group Inc has named David Smith as executive vice president and chief financial officer and Bhairav Patel as executive vice president of finance and accounting. The appointments becomes effective January 1, 2019. Previously, both Smith and Patel worked at Fortress.

Vbrick taps Rockwell as CMO

Herndon, Virginia-based Vbrick, a provider of enterprise video platform solutions, has named Christian Rockwell as chief marketing officer. Previously, he worked at Sparta Systems Inc where he was a global vice president of marketing. Vbrick is backed by Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital, Acme Nova and Adams Capital.

Aurora Capital promotes two to partner

Aurora Capital has promoted Randy Moser and Andrew Wilson to partner. Previously, both were principals at the Los Angeles-based private equity firm.

J.F. Lehman promotes one to partner and another to principal

J.F. Lehman & Company promoted Glenn M. Shor to partner and David F. Thomas to principal. Both joined the middle-market private equity firm focused on the aerospace, defense, maritime, government and environmental sectors in 2010. Prior to joining J.F. Lehman, Shor worked in D.E. Shaw & Co's private equity group while Thomas was an investment banking analyst with Credit Suisse in the M&A group.