Private Equity
Cormac Whelan has joined Mercator Solutions as CEO. Whelan is currently the Chairman of Boxever. Mercator is a portfolio company of Warburg Pincus.
3 min read · 03 February 2016
D.A. Davidson & Co has appointed Jeff Cleveland as managing director for it consumer and retail sector. Cleveland was a founding member of Harris Williams & Co.’s Minneapolis office.
2 min read · 02 February 2016
Chubb has unveiled a new private equity practice to provide specialized insurance solutions to U.S. and Canadian private equity firms and their portfolio companies. Chubb said the practice will bring greater underwriting expertise and product capabilities to a broad range of companies. Seth Gillston, formerly an executive vice president at ACE Risk Management, will lead the practice. Last month, ACE Ltd completed its acquisition of Chubb Corp. Chubb has its Canadian headquarters in Toronto.
4 min read · 02 February 2016
Online shoppers' review platform Trustpilot has named Hanno Damm as chief financial officer. Previously, Damm worked at Bankrate where he served as a senior vice president. His work background also includes various roles at Apax Partners.
3 min read · 02 February 2016
2 min read · 02 February 2016
This week's jobs include a partner at Black Dragon Capital and a principal investment officer at Connecticut Retirement Plan & Trust Funds. Also up for grabs is a private equity attorney spot at D.E. Shaw and an associate spot at Constitution Capital Partners.
3 min read · 01 February 2016
Antares Capital appointed Melina Higgins as independent board chairman. Higgins spent nearly 20 years with Goldman Sachs before retiring in 2010 as partner and managing director of the firm. Mark Furlong and Diane Nordin were also elected to the Antares Midco Inc board of directors. Furlong most recently served as president and CEO of BMO Harris Bank N.A., and Nordin is a retired partner of Wellington Management Company.
3 min read · 01 February 2016
The head of General Electric in France, Clara Gaymard, is leaving the U.S. conglomerate after its takeover of the energy business of French group Alstom, Reuters News reported.
1 min read · 01 February 2016
Houghton International Inc said Monday that Kevin Smith was named Senior VP, Houghton International and president, Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) and Global Automotive and Aerospace, effective February 1. Before joining Houghton, Smith was chief executive officer, EMEA for Arysta Lifescience. CORRECTION: Houghton is a portfolio company of AEA Investors. owned by the Hinduja Group. Correction: A prior version of this story said that AEA Investors owned Houghton. AEA sold Houghton in 2012 to the Hinduja Group.
2 min read · 01 February 2016
Signal Hill LLC has promoted David J. Dolan III and Matthew J. Fiore to managing directors. Also, the M&A advisor has named Michael J. Kremen and Nigel B. Tse as directors while Nishant Malhotra and Arun Thathachari have been promoted to director and vice president, respectively. The promotions became effective January 1.
3 min read · 29 January 2016
