Private Equity
Christopher Esqueda has joined Institutional Venture Partners as controller. He previously was controller at PS’Soft, a provider of asset management service management and software license compliance solutions.
2 min read · 29 October 2008
Pomona Capital has made three senior hires: Jordan Robinson as a managing director focused on product development, marketing and distribution. He previously was a VP of global private equity with AIG Investments. Gregory Walters as a principal focused on the secondary market. He previously was a managing director with VCFA Group. Haijoung Kim joined as a VP on the firm’s Asian fund-of-funds, and previously was senior investment manager in Samsung Life’s alternative investments division.
2 min read · 29 October 2008
Victor Westerlind has joined RockPort Capital Partners as a general partner in the firm’s Menlo Park office. He previously was a partner with InterWest Partners. RockPort is a Boston-based cleantech venture capital firm.
2 min read · 29 October 2008
1 min read · 27 October 2008
Richard Yanowitch has joined Emergence Capital Partners as a venture partner. He previously was a venture partner with Accel Partners. As founder and chairman of The Entrepreneurs Group, Yanowitch serves as an independent director of the boards of Yume, Mig 33, Lithium and Raptr.Technologies.
3 min read · 23 October 2008
Omidyar Network has made several new hires: Mark Halprin as a partner, after serving as VP of global safety and trust for eBay; Sal Giambanco as a partner in charge of human capital, after previously serving as VP of HR for PayPal and eBay; Stephen King as an investment director, after serving as a director with the BBC World Service Trust; Chris Bishko as an investment director, after spending 16 years as an I-banker with J.P. Morgan Chase; Sophie Bromberg as an investment director, after having been a senior director of global safety and trust for eBay; and Stacy Donohue as an investment director, after spending nine years in various roles with HP.
5 min read · 22 October 2008
Rob Solomon has joined Technology Crossover Ventures as a venture partner, with a focus on the Internet sector. He is the former CEO of comparative travel search engine SideStep.
2 min read · 22 October 2008
Sohil Chand has joined the Mumbai office of Norwest Venture Partners as a managing director. He previously was an executive director in Goldman Sachs' Asian Special Situations Group.
4 min read · 22 October 2008
Highland Capital Partners has promoted Dr. Bijan Salehizadeh has to general partner. He had joined the firm’s Menlo Park office in 2004 as a senior associate, and focuses on early-stage medical device and biotech opportunities. Highland also has added vascular biologist Dr. Elazer Edelman as a senior advisor.
4 min read · 21 October 2008
Can you name the twenty-something celeb whose entourage recently rented out space in San Francisco, in order to begin exploring early-stage investments in digital media startups? And no, Ashton Kutcher is not still in his 20s. Hint: This person has guest-hosted SNL, and done it hilariously.
1 min read · 20 October 2008
