Private Equity
Christopher Stone, a former senior executive with Novell, has joined Salt Lake City-based Epic Ventures as a managing director.In other Epic news, 16-year firm vet Todd Stevens will transition from a managing director to a venture partner role.
3 min read · 15 October 2009
Intersouth Partners has promoted Katrin Burt and Jimmy Rosen to partner. Burt joined Intersouth as an associate in 2007, and has worked with IT portfolio companies like HexaTech, siXis, Bright Hub and Ziptronix. Rosen also joined in 2007, and has worked with life sciences portfolio companies like ABT Molecular Imaging, Applied Genetic Technologies Corp., Cempra Pharmaceuticals and Viamet Pharmaceuticals.
3 min read · 08 October 2009
1 min read · 08 October 2009
George Mackie has joined VC firm Noro-Moseley Partners as a venture partner. He is the former president and CEO of Insource Contract Services, which was sold to Colville Capital last year.
2 min read · 08 October 2009
Tom Bradley has joined London-based VC firm DN Capital as a principal, with a focus on software and igital media opportunities. He previously was a founding partner with DFJ Espirit. www.dncapital.com
1 min read · 08 October 2009
William Rulon-Miller has joined Cross Atlantic Capital Partners as a partner and managing director. He previously was co-head of investment banking at Janney Montgomery Scott in Philadelphia.
3 min read · 01 October 2009
1 min read · 01 October 2009
Gordie Nye has been named CEO of Zeltiq Aesthetics, a Pleasanton, Calif.-based developer of non-invasive procedures for the reduction of unwanted fat tissue. He had been a general partner with Prism Venture Partners for the past six years, and will remain a director with some of its portfolio companies. peHUB reported last month that Prism had shut down the Southern California office which Nye ran.
3 min read · 01 October 2009
Fresh off of last month's announcement that he has launched a Chinese IT incubator called Innovation Works, Kai-Fu Lee has been named chairman of WI Harper Group's advisory board. Kai-Fu will advise the firm on trends, strategy and innovative investment opportunities in China, according to a prepared release that went out early Thursday morning. WI Harper Chairman Peter Liu noted in the release that Kai-Fu has a keen sense of what the future holds in China. I haven't had the chance yet to speak with Kai-Fu, but it's safe to say that his appointment shows that WI Harper wants to do all it can to
1 min read · 01 October 2009
Daniel Chinn, a partner with Israel Seed Partners, has been named CEO of Seambiotic, a Tel Aviv, Israel-based developer of marine microalgae for the nutraceuticals and biofuel. He will continue to serve as a partner with ISP, which is managing out a fund raised in 2000.
2 min read · 30 September 2009
