Private Equity
As New Yorkers get ready to head to the polls for their state’s primary elections, we ask who you would vote for – and provide a recap of the candidates’ positions on one campaign trail talking point: carried interest taxation.
3 min read · 15 April 2016
(Reuters) Andrew Caspersen, an ex-partner at a unit of investment bank PJT Partners Inc accused of orchestrating a $95 million scheme to defraud investors, will likely soon reach a deal with federal prosecutors to resolve the case, his lawyer said.
2 min read · 15 April 2016
Chris Ragazzo has joined Stanwich Advisors as a Managing Director while Jacob Laub has joined as a VP. Ragazzo was previously a Partner at Abbott Capital. Laub was a VP at Atlantic-Pacific Capital.
2 min read · 14 April 2016
Nylon Media, which is backed by Diversis Capital LLC and investor Marc Luzzato, has named Jamie Elden its president and chief revenue officer (CRO). Elden was previously CRO and head of entertainment at Federated Media, a subsidiary of Media General Company.
5 min read · 14 April 2016
The new head of private markets at Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP Investments) is off to a running start after being quietly hired by the system last fall. Guthrie Stewart, named PSP’s senior vice president and global head of private investments in September, was the pension fund’s point man on January’s proposed buy of AIG Advisor Group, a New York-based broker-dealer network. Stewart will likely focus on finding more such deals as PSP seeks to scale investment volumes to match up with its fast-growing asset base.
3 min read · 14 April 2016
Aleph Venture Capital hired Aaron Rosenson as a partner, the first outside the founding team. Rosenson joined from Insight Venture Partners, where he was an associate.
3 min read · 13 April 2016
Silversmith Capital Partners said April 11 that Mike Lester, Bill Ready and Ashok Subramanian have been named Senior Advisers. Lester is currently CEO and Founder of LifeStance Health while Ready is the SVP, Global Head Product & Engineering at PayPal. Subramanian is the co-founder and CEO of Liazon.
3 min read · 13 April 2016
Contractor Management Services, a portfolio company of Riverside Partners, has named Drake Pruitt as its Chief Executive Officer. Pruitt has been running the company as Executive Chairman.
3 min read · 13 April 2016
Signal Hill said April 11 that Dan Graves has joined its New York office as a Managing director. He joins Signal Hill's Sponsor Coverage group and will draw on his relationships in media. Previously, Graves founded Spinnaker Capital Advisors.
2 min read · 12 April 2016
3 min read · 12 April 2016
