Private Equity
<p><span class="NORMAL"><em><span lang="EN-CA"></span></em></span></p> <p><em><span class="NORMAL"><span class="NORMAL"><em><span lang="EN-CA">The Canadian institutional investor is understood to be close to making a couple of significant investments.</span></em> </span> </span></em></p> <em></em><p> </p> <p><br /></p>
2 min read · 05 October 2015
Kewill, a portfolio company of Francisco Partners, has named Doug Braun as CEO and Jim Hoefflin as president and COO. Braun is succeeding Bob Farrell. Kewill is a provider of supply chain execution software.
3 min read · 05 October 2015
NEOgás named R. Paul Grady as its new CEO effective Oct. 1. Grady retired earlier this year from AmeriGas where he was COO. NEOgás, of Rio de Janeiro, provides natural gas logistics services to energy consumers without access to a natural gas pipeline. NEOgás is a portfolio company of the Global Environment Fund.
3 min read · 04 October 2015
Tucson, Arizona-based Providence Service Corp, a provider of multiple health care and social services, has appointed David Shackelton as its new chief financial officer. Shackelton, who has been the company's interim CFO since this past August, is succeeding James M. Lindstrom in this role. Prior to joining Providence Shackelton worked at Mill Road Capital and Blackstone.
2 min read · 02 October 2015
Dow Schofield Watts has named Jeff Gardner as a director in its transaction services team. Prior to joining DSW, Gardner worked at Morrisons Plc as a strategy consultant. He was also part of PwC's transaction services team for seven years.
3 min read · 01 October 2015
Conner Industries Inc. said Wednesday that named Mike Hans as President of its lumber division. Most recently, Hans was President of Birmingham International Forest Products. Conner is a portfolio company of The Argentum Group.
3 min read · 01 October 2015
E-commerce company eBay has added Paul Pressler to its board of directors. Pressler is a partner at Clayton, Dubilier & Rice LLC.
2 min read · 30 September 2015
Canaan Partners has hired Nina Kjellson as a general partner. Previously, Kjellson worked at InterWest Partners where she also served as a general partner.
4 min read · 30 September 2015
Jeff Edwards, a former private equity executive at the Teacher Retirement System of Texas, left the pension system in July and joined NovaQuest Capital Management, according to two people with knowledge of the move
2 min read · 30 September 2015
Martin Schady, a partner at Canadian mining private equity firm Magris Resources, has been appointed to the board of directors of First Quantum Minerals Ltd (TSX: FM). Schady has spent the past 25 years working at a number of metals and mining companies, including Barrick Gold Corp. Earlier this year, Magris led the US$500 million acquisition of Iamgold Corp's Niobec niobium mine north of Québec City.
2 min read · 29 September 2015
