Private Equity
This week's top jobs include a marketing and IR analyst at Carlyle-backed Emerging Sovereign Group and an investment associate at Cambridge.
2 min read · 26 April 2016
Yukon Partners Management hired Michael Furey as a partner on the investment team. Prior to Yukon, Furey worked at Halyard Partners.
2 min read · 26 April 2016
BTIG, LLC hired Colin Knudsen as a managing director in the technology, media and telecom banking group. Knudsen will be based in New York and will focus on TMT M&A and capital markets transactions. Prior to BTIG, Knudsen was co-founder and vice chairman of Coady Diemar Partners.
2 min read · 26 April 2016
Integrated Beverage Group, which is backed by Juggernaut Capital Partners, said April 26 that it named Mike Salzberg as its chairman, and Gary Turner as its executive vice president of sales. IBG also recently named Brett Zimmerman, Master Sommelier, as its chief wine officer. Salzberg most recently served as president and COO of Advantage Sales and Marketing (now called Advantage Solutions), while Turner was most recently the vice president of operations for ARAMARK. Zimmerman owns Boulder Wine Merchant and is a former Colorado general manager of the American Fine Wine Division of Southern Wine & Spirits.
3 min read · 26 April 2016
BlackArch Partners, the Charlotte, North Carolina, middle-market investment bank, tapped Grant Hamilton as managing director and head of the firm’s building-products industry practice. For more than a decade, he’s been advising on middle-market M&A, emphasizing the building-products and diversified-industrials sectors, BlackArch said in a statement. Hamilton and a number of BlackArch senior bankers worked previously at Edgeview Partners, which Piper Jaffray acquired in 2013.
2 min read · 26 April 2016
Council Capital, the Nashville healthcare-focused private equity firm, named Grant Jackson managing partner. Jackson had joined the firm in 2008 as a general partner and had effectively assumed the MP’s role in October 2014. He led the closing of the firm’s third private equity fund, which closed two weeks ago on more than $150 million. Jackson has 15 years of experience in healthcare PE at all levels, including company directorships and deal sourcing through to exits. Council Capital, currently managing about $300 million, makes control and minority investments in healthcare companies, targeting those with enterprise values of $10 million to $50 million.
3 min read · 26 April 2016
RealtyShares, the San Francisco online marketplace for real estate investing, named Arash Sotoodehnia chief credit officer, responsible for managing the firm’s risk analytic framework, policies and guidelines. Sotoodehnia was previously Citi Mortgage’s head of risk policy and controls; his resume also includes tenures with Ally Financial and Fannie Mae.
3 min read · 25 April 2016
The Gores Group promoted Robbie Reynders from vice president to managing director, operations. Reynders joined Gores as a VP in 2009 from Dubai Capital Group and focuses on portfolio company oversight and operational due diligence for Gores' investments in Europe.
2 min read · 25 April 2016
Transpay, the New York cross-border payments platform, named Mike Carlo global head of travel payments. Carlo had been head of travel solutions at Wex Inc and global market leader for travel at GlobalCollect/Ingenico. At Transpay he’ll oversee expansion of the company’s travel-industry solutions. Transpay is backed by GCP Capital Partners, the $1.8 billion New York private equity fund led by top investors in the payments industry.
2 min read · 25 April 2016
David Crane has joined Pegasus Capital Advisors as a Senior Operating Executive. Crane previously served as President and CEO of NRG Energy from 2003 until 2015.
3 min read · 24 April 2016
