Private Equity
SV Life Sciences has hired Dr. Joshua Resnick as a partner. Resnick will be based in the venture firm's Boston office. Previously, Resnick was president and managing partner at MRL Ventures Fund.
3 min read · 11 January 2016
Charleston, South Carolina-based PeopleMatter, a workforce management platform, has hired George Mackie as CEO. Previously, Mackie was a a venture partner at Noro-Moseley Partners.
3 min read · 11 January 2016
Industry Ventures has named Amir Malayery as vice president. Previously, Malayery founded Dapper Shopping Inc. Also, the venture firm has promoted Ira Simkhovitch to vice president on its secondary team and Brian Langner to associate on its partnership holdings team.
2 min read · 11 January 2016
Third Rock Ventures LLC has named Michael W. Bonney as a partner. Previously, Bonney worked at Cubis Pharmaceuticals Inc where he served as CEO.
3 min read · 08 January 2016
London-based Balderton Capital announced it has promoted Rob Moffat and James Wise each to partner. Moffat and Wise have been members of Balderton’s investment team for a combined total of 11 years, The firm has now announced five new partners since October 2013.
3 min read · 07 January 2016
Frazier Healthcare Partners said Thursday that Bob Baltera, Howard Dittrich, M.D., and Brian Farmer have joined the Life Sciences team as Entrepreneurs-in-Residence. The group has formed Hawkeye Therapeutics, of San Diego, to license and develop high-quality assets from pharmaceutical companies.
3 min read · 07 January 2016
Tango said Wednesday that Eric Setton, the company’s co-founder, was named CEO. Sutton, who had been Chief Technology officer, succeeds Tango co-founder Uri Raz, who becomes executive chairman. Mountain View, California-based Tango is a mobile messaging service that has raised $367 million in venture capital financing.
2 min read · 07 January 2016
Ivenix Inc said Wednesday that it named Stuart Randle its CEO. Most recently, Randle served as president and chief executive officer of GI Dynamics Inc. Ivenix, a medical technology company, closed on $42 million in financing last year.
4 min read · 06 January 2016
Eric Aguiar, MD, has joined Aisling Capital as a Partner. Dr. Aguiar was previously a Partner at Thomas, McNerney & Partners and before that he was a Managing Director of HealthCare Ventures.
3 min read · 06 January 2016
Canadian growth equity firm XPND Capital has hired Eric Albert as its vice-president, investments, effective immediately. Albert, a business executive and investor, most recently worked as executive vice president at Stingray Digital Group Inc, a Canadian multi-platform music service provider that went public last June. In his new role at XPND, Albert will participate in all aspects of investment activity and help support companies entering the portfolio. Montréal-based XPND is currently marketing its second fund, XPNDCroissance Fund, which has so far raised $52 million of its $70 million target.
3 min read · 05 January 2016
