Private Equity
Pascal Villiger, one of the senior private equity portfolio managers at the $145 billion California State Teachers' Retirement System, has decided to move back to the private sector, joining Medley Partners, the investment group that manages the personal wealth of James Simons, the former math professor and reclusive multi-billionaire founder of Renaissance Technologies, the hedge fund firm.
1 min read · 08 March 2012
After a four-month search, the $83 billion State of Wisconsin Investment Board named Michael Williamson as its new executive director, Buyouts magazine reported today.
2 min read · 22 February 2012
Encore Consumer Capital, a private equity shop that focuses on small consumer product companies, had an interim $100 million close on its second fund, Encore Consumer Capital II LP, according to a source with knowledge of the firm’s plans. The San Francisco-based firm, which oversees $175 million in committed capital, was founded in 2005 by Scott Sellers and Robert Brown, who came from Swander Pace Capital, another consumer products private equity firm, and Gary Smith, who founded Encore Associates, an affiliated firm that offers strategic advice to the consumer products industry. Encore Consumer Capital primarily invests in...
2 min read · 05 January 2012
The exodus continues on MassPRIM’s private equity team. Less than two months after the departure of Wayne Smith, Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Management’s private equity chief, the pension’s second-most-senior private equity manager, Senior Investment Officer Michael Langdon, also said that he was planning to leave. Langdon’s last day at MassPRIM is set for be Oct. 14, when he will join London-based Hermes Global Private Equity and help establish the firm’s Boston office. Hermes manages $7 billion in private assets, including $1 billion in the U.S. A spokeswoman for the $41 billion pension, Alethea Harney, said the timing of the two departures was an “unfortunate coincidence” and that the two departures “were not related in any way.”
2 min read · 21 September 2011
Jason Thomas is joining The Carlyle Group in the next few weeks after nearly three years at the Private Equity Growth Capital Council, most recently as vice president of research, peHUB has learned. Thomas is slated to become director of research at Carlyle, where he will be the first to hold that position, according to spokesperson Christopher W. Ullman. He will report to David M. Marchick, who is managing director and global head of external affairs, a group that handles communications and government relations for the firm. Ullman said he couldn't elaborate on what Thomas's role will be at the PE investment giant.
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