Private Equity
The firm’s co-presidents, Sam Mencoff and Paul Finnegan, have reportedly taken the reins from fellow co-founder John Canning in a planned succession.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
The Carlyle Group has hired Ellen Gonda, formerly a financial communications director at PR firm Brunswick Group, to lead its public relations efforts in North and South America. It is part of a larger expansion that will double the size of Carlyle’s global communications department.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
The Blackstone Group has recently opened an office in Tokyo, headed by Alan Miyasaki, who has moved from New York to spearhead the group’s real estate investment activity.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
The New York firm has promoted David Cynn and Thierry Ho to managing directors and Michal Petrzela to vice president.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Dubai investment group Istithmar has opened an office in Shanghai; it is the firm’s first office outside of the United Arab Emirates.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Texas Teachers’ alternatives head Keith Garrison has resigned in order to fill the same role at the Texas Christian University endowment, following former Texas Teachers CIO James Hille.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Vikram Pandit, a fund of funds entrepreneur and former Morgan Stanley executive, will lead Citi’s newly combined alternative assets and investment banking units, making him a direct report to chairman Chuck Prince.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
The Blackstone Group has created a new role for Alan Muney, the former chief medical officer at Oxford Health Plans, to manage healthcare benefits across the firm’s 52 private equity portfolio companies.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
Texas Teachers’ alternatives head Keith Garrison has resigned in order to fill the same role at the Texas Christian University endowment, following former Texas Teachers CIO James Hille.
1 min read · 04 January 2013
Robert Wright, GE’s vice chairman and former head of NBC Universal, is the second titan of industry Thomas H. Lee has hired to advise his private equity firm.
2 min read · 04 January 2013
