Private Equity
Pet specialty retail chain Petco announced that current CEO Jim Myers will be retiring. Brad Weston, the company's current president and chief merchant, will succeed him. Weston's appointment becomes effective February 1, 2017. Petco is owned by CVC Capital Partners and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board.
4 min read · 27 September 2016
Wynnchurch Capital has promoted Frank Hayes to co-managing partner. Hayes joined the firm in 2001 as a partner.
2 min read · 27 September 2016
BlackArch Partners has appointed Tom Krasnewich as managing director and head of the firm's diversified industrials practice. Previously, Krasnewich worked at BMO Capital Markets where he served as managing director in the industrials group.
2 min read · 27 September 2016
AIIOver Media, LLC, an alternative out-of-home advertising platform, has appointed Jeff Griffing as CEO. Prior to joining AllOverMedia, Griffing was vice president at Taylor Corp. AllOverMedia is backed by Audax Private Equity.
2 min read · 27 September 2016
This week's opportunities include a healthcare VP with a NYC-based venture capital and economic development fund, an entrepreneur-in-residence with Elevate Ventures and an associate role at Brookstone.
2 min read · 26 September 2016
Arbor Investments has named Christopher Harned as a partner and Tim Fallon as senior operating partner. Also, the Chicago-based private equity firm has promoted Brody Lynn and Alan Weed to partner.
4 min read · 26 September 2016
While U.S. private equity firms are a growing presence in Canada’s mid-market, not that many have taken the step of opening a local office to source deals and keep tabs on portfolio companies. One of the few is Swander Pace Capital (SPC), a specialist in buyouts of lower mid-market consumer products companies. SPC opened a Toronto office seven years ago and hired Principal Valerie Scott to run it. PE Hub Canada sat down with Managing Director Andrew Richards and Scott to talk about SPC’s Canadian investment strategy, deals and the recent close of its sixth fund.
4 min read · 25 September 2016
Investor Michael Gordon has no plans to retire but when he does he wants to ensure that Angelo, Gordon, the $26 billion firm he co-founded with John Angelo 28 years ago, survives without him, Reuters reported.
2 min read · 23 September 2016
Stifel Financial Corp subsidiary Miller Buckfire, an investment bank that focuses on corporate restructuring and recapitalization, has named Richard Klein as managing director. Previously, Klein worked at Jefferies LLC as a managing director for their restructuring and recapitalization group.
3 min read · 23 September 2016
GTCR has promoted Benjamin J. Daverman and Lawrence C. Fey IV to managing director and Stephen J. Jeschke to principal. Daverman joined the private equity firm in 2008, Fey came on board in 2012 and Jesche was first hired in 2011.
2 min read · 22 September 2016
