Private Equity
Darren Wong has joined fund-of-funds manager Adveq as a managing director in its Beijing office. He previously oversaw venture capital and Asia investing for HRJ Capital.
2 min read · 06 March 2009
Alastair Dorward has joined Physic Ventures as an executive-in-residence. He is the founding CEO of Method Inc. and, before that, ofCovent Garden.
1 min read · 04 March 2009
Nick Sturiale and Jeb Miller have joined JAFCO Ventures as general partners. They previously were with Carlyle Growth Capital, which closed its Silicon Valley office late last year. In other JAFCO Ventures news, general partner Aaron Cheatam has left. No word yet on his future plans.
5 min read · 04 March 2009
Geoff Entress has joined Voyager Capital as a venture partner, with a focus on Internet and digital media opportunities in the Pacific Northwest.He was previously a venture partner with Madrona Venture Group.
3 min read · 04 March 2009
Back in October, we reported that Pierre Lamond was leaving Sequoia. What we didn't realize was that the 78-year-old wasn't about to retire, as we'd guessed, but was being wooed by Vinod Khosla, whose firm he is joining to make clean tech investments. WSJ has the scoop that after 27 years at Sequoia Capital, the legendary semiconductor investor will begin his new job in April. Lamond told the paper that the investments that Khosla Ventures has been making, largely in cleantech companies, “fits with the type of companies I want to build," adding that he hasn’t been an active day-to-day investor at Sequoia for the past 18 months and had “decided to phase out of Sequoia about a year ago.”
1 min read · 04 March 2009
3 min read · 03 March 2009
Les Lyall has joined Toronto-based Kirchner Private Capital Group as a managing partner of the firm’s fund management subsidiary. He most recently was chief operating officer of GrowthWorks Capital.
3 min read · 02 March 2009
Matt Horton has been named CEO of Propel Fuels, owner and operator of a network of biofuel dispensing locations. Horton is a principal with Propel investor @Ventures, and will continue on in that role.
3 min read · 26 February 2009
Michael Lytton has left Oxford Bioscience Partners, where he had been a general partner since 2001. He will become executive vice president of business and corporate development with Biogen Idec (Nasdaq: BIIB). All of his Oxford-related board seats have been reassigned.
2 min read · 26 February 2009
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been named a venture partner with VantagePoint Venture Partners, where he will focus on the cleantech sector. He has been a member of the firm’s cleantech advisory council since 2007, and will take board seats with two VantagePoint portfolio companies: Premium Power, a maker of energy storage solutions, and Ostara Nutrient Recovery Technologies, a wastewater remediation company.
2 min read · 26 February 2009
