Musical Chairs in European Credit & Private Equity Q2 2019

EUROPEAN CREDIT MOVES Iva Horcicova has left ING where she was a VP in High Yield DCM. Her next role, we understand, is yet to be disclosed.

CREDIT: Bank of America Lynch has hired Astghik Khachatryan as a Director in Leveraged Finance, based in . Before joining Adekunle Ademakinwa has left Nomura, where he was Head Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Khachatryan was a Director in the of Credit Debt Syndicate – EMEA, to return to Financial Sponsors and Leveraged Finance team at where he will work for Frazer Ross. Ross was appointed as Head in Paris. of European Flow Syndicate at the bank, adding responsibility for the SSA syndicate business to his existing responsibilities for the Fady Lahame has joined Macquarie to lead its French Advsiory corporate, financials, emerging markets and EMTNs syndicate. and Capital Markets division. Most recently, Lahame worked at Messier Maris & Associés in Paris where he advised on M&A Fabien Antignac was re-hired by Credit Suisse as Head of EU transactions for large corporate clients. Prior to joining Messier in Capital Markets, based in Madrid. Antignac was latterly Head of IB 2015, Lahame spent 19 years at Credit Suisse. for France at Credit Suisse before joining French facility management firmAtalian – a client of the Swiss bank – in October 2018. Mark Lewellen has joined Deutsche Bank as Head of Corporate DCM. Previously, he was Co-Head of Global DCM & Risk Dominik Boskamp has joined Credit Agricole in Frankfurt as Solutions at . ED & Head of Corporate DCM for Germany & Austria. Prior to this, Boskamp was based in and worked as a Director in Pierre-Francois Martineau has left BNP , where he was a DCM coverage at Barclays, focusing on clients in the DACH and Director in High Yield Bond Origination in London. CEEMEA regions. Société Générale has made a number of promotions in its DCM ANZ Banking Group has hired Emma Broughton as Head of Loan team. Felix Orisini has been appointed Global Head of DCM, Syndications in and Katrina Santos Li as a Director in the based in Paris. Orisini was previously Global Head of SSA DCM same team. Previously, Broughton worked at Barclays where she Origination & Global Co-Head of Corporate DCM Origination was latterly Head of Private Loan Sales in London and Santos Li at the bank. Andrew Menzies has been appointed Global Head joined from RBS where she was a Director in Corporate Debt. of Corporate DCM Origination, based in London. Menzies was formerly Global Co-Head of Corporate DCM Origination together Eduardo Cabal has joined JP Morgan as an MD in Leveraged with Orsini. Olivier Vion has been appointed Global Head of SSA Finance. Cabal was previously an MD in ’s DCM Origination, based in Paris. Vion, who was previously Head Leveraged Finance team. of SSA Syndicate at the bank, will add the new responsibilities to his existing role. Barclays has hired Kabir Chhatwani as an MD in Financial Sponsor Coverage for the DACH region. Chhatwani joined from Morgan BNP Paribas has hired Konstantin Rotar as a Director in their Stanley where he was an ED in their Financial Sponsor Coverage team. Financial Sponsor Coverage team. Previously, Rotar was an ED in Financial Sponsor Coverage at Morgan Stanley. Anna D’Ercole is joining Santander in a DCM Origination role. She was previously an ED at Credit Agricole, focusing on FIG Following the departure of Amir Hoveyda, UBS has reorganised DCM Origination in the UK, Ireland and Australia. its Debt Capital Markets business, merging Leveraged Finance and DCM, with David Slade heading the combined group in EMEA. NatWest Markets has hired Kerr Finlayson as Head of Frequent Borrowers Group Syndicate. Finlayson previously worked in SSA Jeff Tannenbaum has been handed oversight of the EMEA Debt Syndicate at RBC Capital Markets. Leveraged Finance team at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, a role which he now holds alongside his previous responsibilities as Head of Investment Grade Capital Markets & Head of DCM for EMEA at the bank.

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LGIM Real Assets has made two senior hires into its growing Private Credit business. Sarah Aitken has joined as Infrastructure Asset Manager and Amie Stow has joined as Private Credit Product Specialist. Previously, Aitken was a Director in Portfolio Management, Infrastructure & Energy at , and Stow an Investment Director specialising in European Fixed Income & High Yield at Fidelity International.

Vikram Balan has joined Pimco as an SVP & Portfolio Manager in the Alternatives team. Prior to joining Pimco, Balan was a Director in Financing & Structuring at NatWest Markets.

Mike Binnington has left his position as VP in Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s London-based Leveraged Finance team and joined Penfund as a VP in Origination, based in Toronto.

Wynne Comer has left Bank of America Merrill Lynch, where she KKR has hired Akshat Khaitan as a Principal in their Capital was Global Head of CLO, and joined AGL Credit Management as Markets team. Prior to joining KKR, Khaitan was a VP in a COO. Deutsche Bank’s Leveraged Finance team.

Be Spoke Capital has hired Nilesh Desai as Head of Credit in Intermediate Capital Group (ICG) has hired Klaus Maurer as an London. Previously, Desai was an MD in Credit at Ares. MD in Subordinated Debt & Equity, based in Frankfurt. Maurer was previously a Partner at Silverfleet Capital, where he focused Antin Infrastructure Partners has hired Alex Flynn as a Director on the origination and execution of transactions for the firm’s pan in their Financing team. Flynn joined Antin from Rothschild’s European mid-market strategy. Debt Advisory and Restructuring team in London. Intermediate Capital Group (ICG) has hired Alan Ross as an CQS has appointed Mina Gerowin as an independent NED to MD in Special Situations. Ross joined ICG from Cerberus Capital, support the development of their business strategy. Most recently, where he worked as an SVP with a focus on sourcing and executing Gerowin was an NED for CNH Industrial and, previously, Head of credit, special situations and distressed debt opportunities for more European Credit at Paulson & Co. than a decade.

Bridgepoint has hired Ingrid Gius for a Portfolio role in their Antoine Maspétiol, Marie Bursaux and André Gonçalves left Credit team. Previously, Gius was a VP in the Asset Management Aviva Investors in Paris to launch a private debt fund focused on team at Fortress Investment Group. impact investment at Eiffel Investment Group. At Aviva, Maspétiol was Head of Private Corporate Debt, Bursaux led euro private debt Kames Capital has hired Thomas Hanson as Head of High Yield portfolios, and Gonçalves was a senior originator in the private Fixed Income (new role) & Co-Manager of a trio of funds following corporate debt team. the departure of High Yield Co-Manager Jack Holmes. Kames also hired Eleanor Price as a High Yield Analyst. Hanson and Price Fidelity International has hired Andrew McCaffery from will be based in Edinburgh. Hanson was previously a High Yield Aberdeen Standard Investments. He joins in the newly created Portfolio Manager at Janus Henderson and Price a High Yield position of Chief Investment Officer for alternative assets. Investment Manager at Baillie Gifford. Pemberton has hired Richard Meehan as a Director in their Direct Tresidor Investment Management has made a number of Partner Lending team. Previously, Meehan was a Director in the Middle level hires (predominantly these consist of former BlackRock Market Financial Sponsors team at HSBC. employees). Sebastian Kaufmann and Peter Jurik both joined directly from BlackRock. Kaufmann was a Director & Research Shantala Menon has joined Brookfield Asset Management as a VP Analyst in European Credit Strategies, whilst Peter Jurik was a in Infrastructure Debt. Previously, Menon was a VP in Leveraged VP in the High Yield Credit Research team. Leopold Bian has also Finance at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. joined as a Partner, he was briefly at SPX Capital as a Portfolio Manager in Global Equities and, prior to that, at BlackRock as a Shantini Nair has joined HSBC Global Asset Management as VP in Credit, Rates & Alternative Strategies. Niall Sheehan from Senior Product Specialist for Infrastructure Debt Investments. Brigade Capital Management has also joined the firm as Partner. Prior to this, Nair worked at Legal & General Investment Additionally, the firm also hired trader Nikhil Kohli from Oak Management where she focused on growth of the global private Hill Advisors and an Analyst, Fredrik Sundberg, from Houlihan credit platform and product establishment across its infrastructure Lokey’s Restructuring team. debt, real estate debt and corporate credit capabilities. Alessandro Nicolini has joined Partners Group as an SVP in their the European market. Both Ray and Morgan join from Goldman Capital Markets team. Prior to joining Partners Group, Nicolini Sachs, where Ray was Head of Restructuring and Morgan was was an ED in the Leveraged Finance team at Head of Liability Management in Europe. Lanier joined from PJT Partners where he was a Director in the Restructuring & Special Man GLG has expanded its Credit business with a number of hires. Situations team. Kaushik Rambhiya, Patrick Kenney and Santiago Pardo have all joined the London based Credit business as Portfolio Managers. Rodolphe Roch has joined Kepler Cheuvreux as an MD and Co- Previously, Rambhiya was Chair of the Investment Committee Head of Debt Advisory. Prior to joining Kepler Cheuvreux, Roch & Lead Portfolio Manager at Aventicum Capital Management, worked briefly at Stella EOC and, prior to that, at Ondra Partners Kenney was at Overland Advisors, based in Santa Monica, where where he was a Director in their Debt Advisory team. he focused on global distressed and non-US credit, and Pardo was in a credit investment coverage role at The Abraaj Group. CREDIT: OTHER

Hermes Investment Management has hired Kevin Roche as a Guillaume Jolivet has been appointed to MD (management Director for Private Debt & CLOs. Previously, Roche was a Director board) at Scope Ratings. Jolivet joined Scope in 2013 to create its in the Leveraged Finance team at Allied Irish Bank. Structured Finance business.

Tareck Safi has joined HIG Capital as an MD & Head of Real Estate Debt. Prior to joining HIG, Safi was Head of Commercial Real Estate Debt Investments at Pimco.

CIFC Asset Management has hired Rinse Terpstra as a Senior Analyst in Credit Research. Prior to joining CIFC, Terpstra was a Senior Investment Analyst at Chenavari Investment Managers, focusing on Leveraged Finance.

Andrew Tully has joined CVC Credit Partners as an MD in their Private Debt team. Previously, Tully was Head of Origination for Financial Sponsors at Santander UK.

Barry Whitman, Head of High Yield Credit for EMEA at Columbia Threadneedle Investments, has announced he will retire at the end of 2019. Whitman launched the firm’s European High Yield team more than 20 years ago.

Luca Marson has joined Clessidra as an Investment Director, based in Milan. Marson was previously an AD in the Debt Advisory and Restructuring team at Rothschild in Milan.

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Eric Lalo has leftLazard (Paris), where he was an MD and sovereign advisory expert advising European, African and Asian clients on debt restructurings and other mandates. It is reported he will decide on next steps after the summer.

Perella Weinberg Partners has hired Clinton Ray as a Partner, Guy Morgan as an MD, and Romain Lanier to join their London based Restructuring team as they look to extend their reach in EUROPEAN PRIVATE EQUITY MOVES previously worked at Morgan Stanley where he was an ED.

Inflexion has hired Sergio Ferrarini as an Investment Director PRIVATE EQUITY: INVESTMENT PROFESSIONALS focusing on technology, data and tech-enabled service businesses in Europe. He previously worked for Hg where he was a Principal. Richard Baker, former Whitbread Chairman and Alliance Boots Chief Executive, has teamed up with Andy Dawson, a former Alexander Friedrich has joined Ardian as an MD. Prior to this, he Partner at Advent International, to set up BD-Capital. They are worked in Partner roles with Quadriga Capital and Gilde Buy Out working alongside Nick Basing and David Johnston, a portfolio Partners where he was responsible for transformational LBO and Non-Exec and former CEO of Aimia respectively. Former Advent growth expansion transactions. International MD, Ron Sheldon, will also join the firm as a Senior Adviser, sitting on its investment advisory committee. Dominik Halstenberg joins Hudson Advisors as an MD. Halstenberg joins from Lion Capital where he was a Partner at has hired Tanya Barnes as an MD overseeing firm. Strategic Partners’ impact investing activities. Barnes was previously an MD in the Merchant Banking Division of Goldman Apax Partners has hired Eric Hamou to join their TMT team. Sachs. Hamou previously worked at DC Advisory where he was the Co- Head of France. Marc Benatar has joined Apax Partners as a Partner within the healthcare sector team. He previously worked in business Mads Hansen has joined Hg as a Partner where he focuses on development at General Electric, essentially in the GE healthcare software and technology investments from the firm’s large cap division. Saturn Fund. He previously worked for IRIS software Group as a Consultant and, prior to that, he worked at Montagu as a Director. Volpi Capital hires Erik Berggren as a Senior Associate. Before joining Volpi, he was an Associate at Arma Partners, providing Gareth Healy has joined Tenzing Private Equity in their M&A advisory services to technology companies. investment team. Prior to Tenzing, he was a Partner at Inflexion Private Equity with a particular focus on TMT and travel sectors. Caroline Pinton has joined Equistone as an Investment Manager in Paris. Pinton joins from Messier Maris & Associés where she Hg has hired Martin Le Huray as a Partner, where he will was an M&A Associate. be responsible for investing Hg’s £1.5bn Saturn fund. He was previously the Co-Head of European Private Equity at Omers. Equistone made two appointments in its Munich office. Julia Brunswicker will join the firm as an Investment Manager having Florian Korp has joined Liberta Partners as a Partner. Korp previously been part of the DACH team in Munich. Hubert van previously worked for Vitruvian Partners as an Investment Wolfswinkel joins as a Director from Montagu Private Equity Professional based in the firm’s Munich office. operating across Germany and the Netherlands. Nordic Capital has hired Rainer Lenhard as a Partner and Co- Edmund Buckley joins THI Investments as an MD. Prior to Head of DACH. Prior to this, Lenhard worked at Goldman Sachs this, Buckley worked as part of the investor group that acquired where he was an MD focusing on European healthcare companies. KME Mansfeld GmbH and Compact GTL, where he subsequently became CEO. Stirling Square Capital hires duo Amélie Mazurier and Adriaan Bloys van Treslong in their investment team. Mazurier was Thomas de Canniere has joined Searchlight as a Principal. Prior previously in JP Morgan’s arm, working on to joining Searchlight, De Canniere worked as a Senior Associate at M&A within the consumer and retail team. Van Treslong joins the Blackstone in London. firm from Hannam Investments.

Apax Partners has hired Aymeric de Cardes as a new Partner in the William McGlashan Jr has recently left TPG. He previously TMT development team to focus on investments in the small-cap founded TPG’s growth investment unit and led their impact segment. Prior to this, he was CEO of Arkena (a subsidiary of TDF). investment team.

Charterhouse has hired James Cocker as a Partner in its deal Neil Mcilroy joins PAI Partners as a Principal. Prior to this, making team. Cocker previously worked for Lion Capital where he McIlroy worked at H.I.G. Capital in his investment team. was a Partner and a member of the IC. Sandaire Private Equity has hired Michael Mowlem who joins the Equistone has appointed Will Copeland to its Birmingham firm as an MD. He was previously at LGV Capital where he was on investment team as an Investment Manager. He joins from the IC and, latterly, its Chief Executive. the Business Growth Fund where he was an Investor. Levine Leichtman Capital Partners (LLCP) has appointed James Davis has joined Astorg as a member of the investment team. Erik Nobel as an MD. Nobel will lead LLCP’s structured equity Prior to this, Davis was at ICG where he was an MD responsible for origination and investing efforts in the Nordic region. Prior to investments in the Nordic region and a member of the IC. joining LLCP, Nobel worked as an Investment Director at AP6.

Dirk Halboni joins Brookfield Asset Management as a VP. Halboni HIG Capital has appointed Markus Noe-Nordberg as an MD and Head of Mid-Market Private Equity in Europe. Prior to joining Apiary Capital has hired Dan Adler as a Partner and member of HIG Capital, he was a Partner and Founding Member of Pamplona the IC. Prior to this, Adler worked at Lyceum Capital where he was Capital. a Partner.

KKR has recruited Jérôme Nommé as their first Head of France. LDC has added two senior hires to its Manchester team, Dale Nommé previously worked at Sun Capital where he was an MD. Alderson and Aziz Ul-Haq. Alderson joins the team as a Director and makes the move from LDC in Yorkshire, where he held the TSG has appointed Beth Pickens as a Principal based in their position of Investment Director. Ul-Haq joins as a Director from new London office. Pickens was previously an MD and Head of Deloitte, where he was a Partner in the firm’s M&A Advisory team. European Consumer Banking at William Blair. LDC has also strengthened its London team with the appointment ICG appoints Jamie Rivers as an MD in the UK Equity and of two Investment Directors, Joseph Fison and Joe Tager. Fison Mezzanine team. Rivers joined ICG from BC Partners, where joins from Cumulus Asset Management, where he was a Partner he was originating and executing private equity investments, and a Director of Principal Investments. Tager previously led primarily in the UK. investment activity for the private office of Luke Johnson, where he worked on leisure sector transactions. Farview Equity Partners was recently founded by John Rosenberg, Guy Sochovskyis, Samantha McGonigle and Dipish Rai. LDC has hired Phil Hinson as Investment Director bolstering its Rosenberg is a Partner at the firm and previously was a General Midlands team. Hinson joins LDC from PKF Cooper Parry, where Partner at TCV. Sochovskyis is also a Partner at the firm and he was part of the team. was previously a VP at Vonage. McGonigle, is another Partner at Farview and was previously a Partner at Weil, Gotshal & Manges Johannes Bayer has joined Ambienta as a Principal based in where she was an M&A lawyer. Rai is a Principal at Farview and Düsseldorf. Prior to this, Johannes was an Investment Director was previously an Investment Professional at Providence. with the mid-market private equity firm Capiton.

Teleios Capital Partners has hired Max Steinebach as an Growth Capital Partners (GCP) has appointed Liam Bennett as Investment Professional. Previously, he worked at Charterhouse an Investment Executive. Bennett joins GCP from KPMG. Capital Partners. BGF have made a number of recent hires. Sophie Brand joins as Advent International has hired Bryan Taylor as a Managing an Investor from Deloitte’s Consumer & Retail M&A team. Grant Partner and Head of the Technology Investment team. Most Paul-Florence has been hired to lead the London Investment team. recently, he was Co-Head of TPG Capital’s Technology Group, Paul-Florence joins from Octopus Investments, where he was Head where he was instrumental in building the firm’s software of Intermediate Capital. Tom Horton joins from Lloyds Banking investment capabilities and jointly led a 20-person team. Group, where he held roles including Head of Midlands Business Services and Relationship Director for Lloyds’ Midlands Mid-Cap Olaf Tensen has joined Pamplona Capital Management in the team. Subi Inayat was hired as an Investor in the Birmingham newly created role of Country Partner for Benelux. Tensen was office. Previously Inayat was a part of KPMG’s Corporate Finance previously a Partner at AAC Capital, specialising in mid-market team. Simon Blackaby joins as an Investor in the quoted team buyouts in Benelux. and he was previously part of the EMEA Equity Capital Markets team at Jefferies. Spencer Woods was hired as an Investor in the LGT Group has announced that Sev Vettivetpillai, who joined the Manchester office and joins from Wheatsheaf Group where he held firm last year from Abraaj Group, is set to leave. the role of Senior Investment and Portfolio Manager.

PRIVATE EQUITY: UK SMALL-CAP Quadrille Capital has hired Edouard Brunet as a VP and & LOWER MID-CAP Alejandra Duran Gil as a Senior Associate. Brunet was previously an ED within the Investment Banking Division at Goldman Sachs Livingbridge has hired Samuel Adebiyi and Joseph McGee as and Gil worked in the M&A team at Messier Maris & Associés. Investment Managers. Adebiyi previously worked for PwC, where he was a Deals Manager and McGee worked at Strategy& (part of Idinvest Partners has appointed Bao Dinh as Investment PwC) as a Strategy Consultant. Director in the firm’s Venture Capital team. Prior to joining Idinvest Partners, Dinh was a Director for the region EMEA at a Director and Senior Associate, respectively. Yap joined from GIC, HotelTonight, a mobile app for last minute hotel bookings. and Jefferson previously worked at MVision.

Holland Capital has hired Margot Engels as a Partner to focus on PRIVATE EQUITY: FUNCTIONAL the healthcare sector. Engels previously worked at Opdidakt where she was an MD. Pantheon has opened a Dublin office and appointed five staff to run its Irish operations. Stephen Branagan has been appointed Metric Capital Partners has hired Lars Eriksson as an Investment CEO and Head of Ireland. Prior to this, Branagan worked at Director and tasked him with opening their Stockholm office. Prior Farmgas Community Partners. Maeve Kelly has joined from to joining Metric, Eriksson was a Partner and Head of European Cantor Fitzgerald as Head of Compliance. Laura Kilduff has Origination at the Riverside Company. moved from HSBC Ireland to become Operational Risk Manager and Chief Risk Officer, while Sinead McQuaid has joined from Kester Capital has hired Patricia Hamel as a COO and Peter Goldman Sachs as a Senior Fund Accountant. Naomi Daly will Ralph as a Principal. Hamel was previously at Livingbridge where chair Pantheon Ireland’s board. he was an Executive, and Ralph was an Investment Director at Spring Ventures. Invest Europe has appointed Thierry Baudon as its new Chair. Baudon recently left Mid Europa Partners which he Synova Capital has made three new hires: Sunil Jain, from founded in 1998. Sovereign Capital as an Investment Director; Mike Mullally as an Investment Manager from Alantra; and Emily Bullman as Partners Group has hired Gordon Brown, who will advise the an Investment Executive from the Financial Sponsors team at Swiss firm on impact investments. Brown was a former British HSBC. Prime Minister.

Charlie Johnstone co-founded Newlands Capital alongside Fiona Vijay Bharadia joins Intermediate Capital Group as its new McMahon, both of whom previously worked at ECI Partners. CFO and COO. He will leave his position as International CFO Johnstone was a Partner and the former Head of Deal Origination at Blackstone, where he is responsible for financial, tax and at ECI, and McMahon was an Investment Director. regulatory reporting across Europe and .

David Keenan joins Nimbus as an Investment Professional. General Atlantic has hired Loek van den Boog as a Special Keenan previously worked in PwC’s Corporate Finance division Advisor and Chairman of General Atlantic in the Netherlands. where he was a Director advising on mid-market private equity Van den Boog joined form Mendix and Myriad where he was transactions. Chairman.

Volpi Capital has hired Joerg Klasmeyer into their investment Activa Capital has appointed Alexandre Chollet as CFO. He will team. He joins from Investindustrial where he was a VP. be responsible for coordinating their cross-functional activities. Prior to joining Activa, he was a Director of Investor Relations at Abingworth has hired Bali Muralidhar as a Partner. Prior to Naxicap Partners. joining Abingworth, Muralidhar was a Senior Partner at MVM Partners. Northleaf Capital Partners has appointed Sophia Damianou as an MD of Business Development for EMEA. Prior to this, she was a Ricardo Sommer joins Silverfleet as a Principal, where he will Director of Marketing at CapeView Capital. be responsible for Silverfleet’s lower mid-market activities in the DACH region. Sommer joins from Quadriga Capital, where he was James Harper has joined Apposite as a Finance Manager. Prior to a Director with responsibility for buyout investments in the DACH joining Apposite, Harper was at Coller Capital where he was part region covering industrials and business services sectors. of the finance team.

Keensight Capital has appointed Stanislas de Tinguy as a Senior Gresham House has appointed Samee Khan as General Counsel. Director and Jan Kinsky as an Analyst. De Tinguy joins Keensight Khan joins Gresham House from the Abu Dhabi Investment Capital from BNP Paribas CIB where he was an MD and Co-Head Authority (ADIA), where he was responsible for establishing and of the TMT Investment Banking team for the Asia Pacific region. then leading the legal and compliance function within its private Prior to joining Keensight Capital, Kinsky worked as a Strategy equity department. Consultant at Roland Berger. Bart De Leeuw has joined Fortino Capital as CFO. De Leeuw YFM Equity Partners has appointed Helen Villers as an previously worked at Ackermans & van Haaren as an Investment Investment Manager. Prior to this, Villers worked at Grant Manager. Thornton UK as part of the London Lead Advisory Corporate Finance team. Khawar Mann has resigned as CEO of Abraaj’s healthcare fund, less than a week after TPG took over the firm’s management. Endless has hired James Warburton as an Associate Director in its Manchester team. He previously worked as an Assistant Director at Michael Moore has joined British Venture Capital Association Deloitte. as Director General. Previously, Moore was the former Liberal Democrat MP and Scottish Secretary. Stonehage Fleming has hired Meiping Yap and James Jefferson as The British Venture Capital Association has chosen Cheryl Previously, Robertson was at Invesco where she was responsible Potter as its new Chair. for managing relationships with investment and private and developing strategic partnerships. PRIVATE EQUITY: OPERATING PARTNERS & PORTFOLIO VALUE CREATION The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) has hired Greg Ruiz to be its new Managing Investment Director Bowmark Capital has hired Simon Adcock as a Partner and Head for private equity. He joined from Altamont Capital Partners, of Portfolio Management. Prior to joining, he was a Partner and where he served as a Principal. Regional Head of Corporate Advisory at Deloitte. Brian Saunders has joined Atlas Merchant Capital as an MD and Christophe Lavigne joins Keensight Capital as an Operating Head of UK and Europe. Prior to this, Saunders worked for Cerberus Partner. He previously was the Founder, Chairman and CEO of European Capital Advisors, where he was a Senior MD. LDR Medical. PRIVATE EQUITY: INVESTOR RELATIONS APG Asset Management has announced that its Global Head of Private Equity Iain Leigh will step down at the end of the year. Ambienta has hired Nevena Batchvarova in their IR team. Prior to Greg Jania and Ken Bloomberg will Co-Head the private equity joining Ambienta, Batchvarova was the Head of Fund of Funds and programme and become MDs. Co-Investment activities of Green Arrow Capital.

Align Capital Partners has hired David Perotti as an Operating HarbourVest has hired Vinay Mendiratta as an MD. Mendiratta Partner. Prior to joining Align, Perotti was CEO of eRecruit. previously worked as Head of Wealth Management Sales at Adams Street Partners. Katarina Staaf joins Six Swedish National Pension Fund (AP6) as an MD. Staaf previously worked as Portfolio Manager for unlisted Vincenzo Narciso departs from Carlyle Group where he was an investments within life sciences at Swedish insurance firm Skandia MD focused on investor relations and fundraising in Europe. Liv and as a customer and portfolio manager for banking group SEB.

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Adams Street Partnerships has appointed Mattias de Beau as a Partner in the firm’s primary investments team. Before joining Adams Street, he Co-Headed the EMEA investment activities covering primary, secondary and co-investment opportunities in London for StepStone Group.

Neuberger Berman has hired Joe McDonnell as Head of Portfolio Solutions. McDonnell joins from Morgan Stanley Investment Management where he was Head of Portfolio Solutions.

BNP Paribas Wealth Management has hired Richard Clarke- Jervoise as Global Head of Private Equity Investments. He previously worked at Stonehage Fleming heading up the Private Capital Investment team.

Dunas Capital has appointed Juan Díaz-Laviada to the IC. Díaz- Laviada previously worked at Advent International, where he was the President and Country Head for Spain, as well as a Global Partner.

Axon Partners has hired William Gilmore as a Partner and Head of Origination. Gilmore joins from Aberdeen Standard Investments. Wessex Partners is a specialist financial Eric Glass has left his position at the Arizona SRS pension fund, services executive search boutique. where he was the Head of Private Equity, to start a Real Estate investment firm. We strongly believe that executive search requires specialist consultants, not generalists. This is the Stephen Priestley has joined CDC Group as an MD and Head ethos on which we are based. of Funds and Capital Partnerships. Priestley previously worked at Bank where he was the Regional Head of 17 Hanover Square, London, W1S 1HU Global Banking for Africa, Middle East, and Pakistan. Tel: +44 (0)20 3943 2850

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