Private Equity
Boston-based Nanigans Inc, a provider of advertising automation software for in-house marketers, has appointed Jim Payne to its board of directors. Currently, Payne is entrepreneur-in-residence at Accel Partners.
2 min read · 16 December 2015
Menlo Park, California-based data intelligence solutions provider ClearStory Data has named Micheline Casey to its advisory board. Casey is the former chief data officer for the Federal Reserve. ClearStory Data is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, DAG Ventures, Google Ventures, Khosla Ventures and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.
4 min read · 16 December 2015
Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), part of the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management, has given its first annual Capital Award to Haig Farris, a Canadian venture capital pioneer. CDL's award recognizes an individual or organization that has had an impact on Canada's competitiveness through the application of capital to the areas of science, technology, and commerce. Farris was the award's debut recipient in part because of his role in co-founding Ventures West Management, one of the domestic industry's most influential and longest-lived venture firms. Farris has since led Fractal Capital Corp, a Canadian angel and seed investment firm.
4 min read · 14 December 2015
California-based crowdfunding site GoFundMe has hired Dan Pfeiffer as vice president of communications and policy. Pfeiffer is the former senior advisor and White House communications director for President Obama. GoFundMe is backed by Accel Partners, Greylock Partners, Technology Crossover Ventures, Iconiq Capital, Stripes Group and Meritech Capital.
3 min read · 11 December 2015
Chicago-based mobile platform Belly has named Eric Lefkofsky to its board of directors. Lefkofsky is the co-founder and chairman of Groupon. Belly is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Silicon Valley Bank, Lightbank, New Enterprise Associates, DAG Ventures, Cisco and 7-Ventures LLC.
2 min read · 11 December 2015
UserZoom said Tuesday that Deborah Eudaley has joined as CFO while Andrew Jensen was named Vice President of Product Management and Kuldeep Kelkar joined as Vice President of Professional Services. San Jose, California-based UserZoom provides a research & testing SaaS platform. In October, UserZoom raised $34 million in a round led by TC Growth Partners.
3 min read · 09 December 2015
Canadian energy and power investor EnerTech Capital has named Étienne Veilleux to the firm's advisory board. Veilleux is founder, president and CEO of Distech Controls Inc, a Brossard, Québec-based provider of building automation and energy management solutions. The company, formerly a portfolio investment of Calgary-based EnerTech, was acquired in September by Acuity Brands Inc for $318 million. In May, PE Hub Canada interviewed Veilleux and EnerTech Managing Director Wally Hunter about the deal and the post-acquisition Distech.
3 min read · 08 December 2015
General Atlantic has promoted Jörn Nikolay to managing director and Roni Elchahal, Andrew Ferrer, and Rajat Sood to principal. The promotions become effective January 1, 2016.
4 min read · 08 December 2015
Sturgeon Ventures has hired Tanya Hailes as a compliance and risk analyst for its risk and monitoring team. Previously, Hailes worked at Railpen where she served as a compliance analyst.
2 min read · 08 December 2015
EnerTech Capital has promoted Dean Sciorillo to the position of managing director. Calgary-based EnerTech, an investor in energy and power industries, also announced that Sciorillo will become a full general partner upon the closing of its new fund, EnerTech Capital Partners V. Sciorillo joined the firm in 2004 as an analyst and became a director last year. He previously worked for 15 years at Exelon Corp. Throughout the past year, EnerTech has been an active deal-maker, leading financings of Blue Pillar Inc and Terralux Inc, and exiting Distech Controls Inc.
3 min read · 07 December 2015
