Private Equity
Macquarie Capital has named John Katzenmeyer as managing director and Eric Varney as senior vice president. Previously, both worked at Stifel Financial Corp where Katzenmeyer was global head of financial technology while Varney covered the financial technology sector.
3 min read · 23 October 2018
Ananya Tripathias will join KKR Capstone in India effective January 2019. Tripathias will lead KKR Capstone's engagements with KKR's portfolio companies in India. Tripathias previously headed Myntra’s business as well as strategy and planning.
3 min read · 23 October 2018
Amadeus Capital Partners said Oct. 23 that Nick Kingsbury and Volker Hirsch have joined the firm. Kingsbury’s focus will be on cyber security, AI and B2B software businesses while Hirsch’s expertise includes artificial intelligence & machine learning as well as human-machine interfaces.
2 min read · 23 October 2018
Jackie Grant, PhD, is joining Abingworth as a principal. Grant was previously with SV Health Investors where she was a senior associate.
3 min read · 23 October 2018
This week’s jobs include an investor relations director at BlackRock, associate spots at Summit and Neuberger Berman and an analyst at TIAA.
2 min read · 22 October 2018
Beach House Center for Recovery, a portfolio company of BelHealth Investment Partners, has named Thomas Ridge and Dr. Steven Levin to its board of directors. Ridge is the former governor of Pennsylvania, a five-time member of the U.S. House of Representatives and the first Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. And, Levin is the medical director of Johns Hopkins Hospital's regional pain program. Juno Beach, California-based Beach House is a drug and alcohol treatment provider.
4 min read · 19 October 2018
Boston-based Muirfield Investment Partners, a private equity real estate firm, has named Arthur Bavelas to its advisory board. Bavelas is the CEO of Bavelas Group. In 1998, he founded Family Office Insights to "provide meaningful access and engagement for active, socially conscious entrepreneurs and wealth managers."
2 min read · 19 October 2018
David M. Marchick, one of the architects of Carlyle Group’s expansion from a boutique PE firm to a globally traded asset manager, will leave the firm by year’s end, the Washington Post reported. Marchick, 52, is moving to a senior adviser role as Carlyle completes its transition to new leadership, the story said.
1 min read · 19 October 2018
Artivest has named Kamal Jafarnia as general counsel and chief compliance officer. Previously, he worked at W.P. Carey where he was senior vice president. Artivest's backers include KKR, Thiel Capital, Genstar Capital and Aquiline Capital Partners.
3 min read · 18 October 2018
Quake Capital, an accelerator focused on making seed investments in new and early-stage companies, has named Jim Brisimitzis as a managing partner. Previously, he worked at Microsoft where he was general manager of "Microsoft for Startups."
2 min read · 18 October 2018
