Private Equity
Damien Steel has been promoted to the role of managing director of OMERS Ventures, the venture capital investment arm of the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (OMERS). Steel, who has been with OMERS Ventures since its inception in 2011, previously served as a director. He currently serves on the board of directors of portfolio companies Fusebill, Klipfolio and Leadsift. Between 2007 and 2011, Steel was a vice president at Edgestone Capital Partners.
2 min read · 22 July 2015
San Francisco-based online education marketplace Udemy has appointed Robert Wong as vice president of product and Grégory Boutté as vice president of content. Previously, Wong worked at Sidecar where he served as vice president of product while Boutté most recently worked as vice president of eBay Motors & Electronics for eBay North America. Udemy's backers include Stripes Group, Norwest Venture Partners, Insight Venture Partners, Lightbank, MHS Capital and Learn Capital.
3 min read · 22 July 2015
Pritzker Group Venture Capital has named Rishi Shah as a senior advisor. Shah is the founder and CEO of ContextMedia. He is also the co-founder of Jumpstart Ventures.
3 min read · 22 July 2015
Damien Steel was named a Managing Director at OMERS Ventures. Steel has been on the OMERS Ventures team since its inception in 2011, previously serving as Director.
2 min read · 22 July 2015
General Catalyst has promoted Niko Bonatsos from principal to venture partner. On his bio page, Bonatsos said he has been involved with such portfolio companies as Chatous/Kiwi, ClassDojo, FlightCar, Livongo Health, Listia, PumpUp, Pushbullet, RealtyShares and Snapchat.
1 min read · 21 July 2015
Courion Corp. said Wednesday that it named David Earhart its CEO and a member of the board of directors. Earhart previously was SVP of Worldwide Field Operations for Damballa. K1 Investment Management invested in Courion in April.
3 min read · 16 July 2015
ABS Capital Partners said Thursday that Michael Avon has joined as a Venture Partner. Avon was previously CFO and Executive Vice President of Millennial Media.
3 min read · 16 July 2015
Jay Kidd has joined Wing Venture Capital as a partner of market acceleration. Previously, Kidd worked at NetApp and Brocade.
2 min read · 14 July 2015
Quantifind said Wednesday that it hired David Karnstedt as CEO. Karnstedt succeeds co-founder Ari Tuchman as CEO, who will assume the position of President. Most recently, Karnstedt led Adobe’s global digital marketing efforts across search, display, video and data management platforms.
3 min read · 08 July 2015
Intel Capital President Arvind Sodhani will retire in January, ending a 34-year career with parent company Intel, including 10 years at the chipmaker’s venture investing arm, Intel said Thursday.
2 min read · 02 July 2015
