PE People Moves: January 2019
The following appointments have all taken place during the last few months, covering the full breadth of the wider Private Equity marketplace. If you would like to discuss the PE marketplace or how Norman Broadbent can help your business, please contact: Kristian Lee at kristian.lee@normanbroadbentinterim.com or on +44 (0) 20 7484 0119
- LDC has invested in British Waterways Marinas Limited(BWML), the operator of inland marinas in the UK, backing the existing management team. As part of the transaction, Gary Fletcher will join the board of the business as Non-Executive Chairman.
- London, 21 January 2019 – Equistone Partners Europe(“Equistone”), one of Europe’s leading mid-market private equity investors, today announces the promotion of Andi Tomkinson to the position of Partner in its Manchester office, the appointment of Philipp Gauß as Associate in Munich, and six further promotions across its offices in France, Germany, Switzerland and the UK. These developments will bolster Equistone’s investment team and serve to reflect the firm’s strong performance and commitment to supporting the internal progression of its team.
- Fund placement agent and secondary transactions advisor AXON Partners has appointed William Gilmore as a partner in the firm’s UK office.
- Palatine Private Equity has made promotions across its UK business following one of the firm’s most successful and active years.
- Andy Strickland, who is based in the London office, has been promoted to Senior Investment Director.
- In the firm’s Manchester office, Charlotte Ashton has been promoted to Senior Business Development Director, whilst Tom Wildig will take the role of Investment Director.
- Houlihan Lokey has named Christian Keller and Ann Sharkey to its European financial sponsors group.
- Knowledge industry focused private equity firm Leeds Equity Partners, LLC has announced it has promoted Eric Geveda and Christopher Mairs to Managing Director and Kevin Malone and David Neverson to Principal, the company said.
- PANTHEON Pantheon, the private equity investor, has announced the promotion to partner of two Pantheon investment team principals: Imogen Richards, global head of investment structuring and strategy, London, and Kevin Dunwoodie, secondaries investment team, San Francisco. The firm has also named Pantheon partner Robin Bailey, pictured, as chief operating officer.
- 3i announces the hire of Simon Andersen as Digital Director, as well as five further hires across its Private Equity business in Europe and North America.
- Simon Andersen will be based in London, where his role will be to drive digital strategies in 3i’s portfolio companies across Europe and the US as well as in the evaluation of new investments. He joins 3i from Marks and Spencer, where he was Head of Digital International since 2014. Prior to this, Simon was Head of Online Innovation at Woolworths (Australia) for two years, and he co-founded a data start-up (Userneeds) in 2008. He began his career at the Boston Consulting Group in 2002.
- Zack Shaftal has joined as a Senior Associate based in New York. Previously, Zack worked as an Associate at Madison Dearborn Partners where he focused primarily on investments in the industrial, consumer and business services sectors.
- Jake Behrman has also joined our New York office, as an Associate. Jake was previously at Metalmark Capital from 2016 to 2018, prior to which he was at Morgan Stanley in the Global Healthcare Investment Banking Group.
- Flore Van Schaik has joined as an Associate in Amsterdam. Flore was previously an Investment Banking Analyst at JP Morgan in London, where she focused on M&A; transactions in the Benelux region and on the TMT sector.
- Inka Berglar has joined as an Associate in Frankfurt. Inka was previously an Investment Banking Associate at Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt and London, where her focus was on M&A; and ECM transactions across sectors.
- Jacques-Henry Grislain has joined as an Associate in Paris. Previously, Jacques-Henry co-founded Cambridge Crops, a biotechnology company based in Boston, US, after graduating from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 2011 to 2015 he worked at Astorg, where he focused on the Healthcare sector.
- Kasperi Putkonen (ex-Goldman Sachs) and Rachel Matharu (Acanthus Advisers) have both joined AnaCap as directors, collectively bringing with them more than a decade of experience in the financial services sector.
- Living Bridge announces the appointment of Tommaso Crackett as investment director in the UK mid-market team.
- Mike Smith, an expert in financial services and private equity, has joined Bain & Companyas a partner in the firm’s Private Equity practice in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). He is based in Bain & Company’s London office.
- DEBENHAMS’ managing director Ross Clemmow has quit to join private equity house Bridgepoint.
- UK-based private equity firm Permira has appointed Ignacio Faus as Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the company. Ignacio Faus will become Permira’s COO, a position that did not exist in the company until now, on January 1, 2019
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