Private Equity
Newly created worldwide funds trade body ICI Global has hired Giles Swan from the UK’s Financial Services Authority to be its director of global funds policy.
1 min read · 06 January 2013
The Virginia-based fund of funds has hired Gordon Hargraves from New York-based Rho Fund Investors, where he spent 12 years focusing on venture capital and smaller buyout funds.
2 min read · 06 January 2013
Following a speech last month in which he attacked private equity firms as being 'asset-strippers', UK Labour Party leader Ed Miliband has further criticised their 'predatory behaviour'.
2 min read · 06 January 2013
Babson Capital Management has bolstered its mezzanine and private equity group by hiring Vik Thadani, who will help to boost its coverage of the Asia-Pacific region.
1 min read · 06 January 2013
OMERS Ventures, which launched in October, has hired Howard Gwin to help target early stage and growth investments in the North American media, technology and telecom companies.
2 min read · 06 January 2013
Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s former senior vice president, COO and CFO of global private equity will now oversee PwC’s services to private equity portfolio companies at a time of market uncertainty.
1 min read · 06 January 2013
Cesar Baez, who launched Centinela in 2006, has left the firm. Baez once ran Hicks Muse Tate & Furst’s Latin America fund that had exposure to Argentina prior to the country’s default.
3 min read · 06 January 2013
French buyout firm PAI Partners has appointed Charles Bouaziz (pictured), former chief executive of drinks group PepsiCo, as a partner in its consumer group.
1 min read · 06 January 2013
Sun European Partners has bolstered its London-based team, seven months after senior managing director Michael Kalb moved to the UK capital to oversee the European operation.
1 min read · 06 January 2013
The firm has added a former McKinsey & Company associate principal to its resources group, which oversees operational improvements to the firm’s portfolio companies.
1 min read · 06 January 2013
