Private Equity
Investment banking adviser Sagent Advisors has named James Flicker as a managing director and head of paper and forest products practice. Previously, Flicker worked at Greenhill & Co where he ran the forest products investment banking practice.
2 min read · 26 January 2018
McLean, Virginia-based Blue Ridge Partners, a management consulting company whose clients include over 100 private equity firms, has promoted Kevin Mulloy and Vincent Schuller tot Peursum to managing director. Also, Blue Ridge has added Jennifer Parkes Kozak and Yan Val as principals to its leadership team.
3 min read · 26 January 2018
Vancouver-based TIMIA Capital Corp, which provides financing to technology companies in exchange for a royalty on revenue, has named Darren Seed as vice president of capital markets and communications. In the new role, Seed will build and maintain relationships with the investment community while leading capital markets and investor relations efforts. A member of Canadian Investor Relations Institute since 2005, Seed was a member of CIRI’s national board of directors until 2017. He has held investor relations and communications roles for several public companies.
2 min read · 26 January 2018
The9 Limited, a Chinese internet company, has named Arthur Lau as president and chief technology officer. Currently, Lau is founder and partner of Ark Pacific Capital Management.
3 min read · 26 January 2018
Highland Capital Management hired Laurie Whetstone as a managing director and Kieran Brennan as a director. Both work on business development, expanding its team in anticipation of increased opportunities in distressed credit. Whetstone joins from Bernstein Private Wealth Management. Brennan joins from Connor, Clark & Lunn Financial Group.
4 min read · 26 January 2018
Valuation and corporate finance adviser Duff & Phelps has named three new managing directors to its corporate finance practice. They are Danielle Montesano, Alexandre Pierantoni and Kurt Steltenpohl.
3 min read · 25 January 2018
OMERS Infrastructure recruited Blackstone Group’s Michael Ryder as a senior managing director and head of its Americas team, a person familiar with the matter told PE Hub Canada. Ryder joins OMERS Infrastructure, an investment arm of Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System, after more than three years as a Blackstone senior managing director. He led the midstream energy and oilfield-services strategy of Blackstone Energy Partners. Before then, Ryder was for seven years a managing director at Morgan Stanley Private Equity. OMERS Infrastructure invests in large-scale infrastructure businesses in energy, social infrastructure and transportation, primarily in North America, Europe and Australia. Ryder will oversee the Americas infrastructure operation from OMERS' New York office.
2 min read · 25 January 2018
Law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP has named Matthew Stewart as a partner. Stewart is part of the firm's private equity practice. Previously, Stewart worked at King & Spalding LLP where he was a partner in the firm's M&A and private equity practices in Silicon Valley.
3 min read · 25 January 2018
Investment bank EA Markets LLC has named Brad Polan as director. Previously, Polan worked at SPP Capital Partners where he served as vice president.
1 min read · 25 January 2018
Atlanta-based Verady, a provider of cryptocurrency accounting and audit technology services, has appointed Bo Shen to its board of directors. Shen is the founder of Fenbushi Capital and Blockasset Fund.
2 min read · 25 January 2018
