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Sloan Foundation builds up private equity brain trust

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has opened up a search for an investment director to help manage its $2.1 billion endowment. The role involves evaluating opportunities in private equity and private credit.

The ongoing search follows the hiring earlier this year of Sean Olesen as managing director of investments on a seven-person investment team. Olesen spent the previous six years working for the endowment of Cornell University, most recently as head of private equity.

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Ex-president of Skillz teams with family office exec to raise debut fund

Jason Roswig, until last year president and CFO at mobile games platform Skillz Inc. and before that managing director at Blackstone Group, has teamed up with Richard Jones, previously partner and rainmaker at family office Jones Boys Ventures, to acquire and invest in lower-middle-market companies.

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Apogem raises $120 million for real assets pool; seeks to hire three: Corrected

Emerging-manager-friendly Apogem Capital has raised some $119.8 million for its fourth multi-strategy real assets pool earmarked largely for co-investments but also for secondaries and primary funds.

The latest fundraising effort comes as the firm seeks to fill three new positions across its Chicago and New York City offices.

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Three senior executives step down from Cerberus

Three senior executives have left New York City-based alternative investment firm Cerberus Capital Management in recent weeks, including two that worked for its technology consulting arm.

No longer at the firm are Pavan Arora, previously chief technology officer and managing director for Cerberus Technology Solutions and Scott C. Johnson, previously managing director of business development for the same subsidiary. Meantime, Pankil Doshi has stepped down as managing director on the real estate private credit team at Cerberus Capital Management. Private Equity Career News confirmed the departures either from bounce-back emails or Linkedin profile updates.

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Black female alum of GenNx360 launches Awani Capital: Updated

Daphne Dufresne, whose PE career spans 25 years and includes a role as managing partner at industrial and business services investor GenNx360 Capital Partners, has started Awani Capital Management to buy and build mid-sized business services companies.

Dufresne becomes one of just a handful of Black women to found buyout firms. In another recent example, Ursula Burns, the former chairman and CEO of Xerox Corporation, in 2021 co-founded New York City-based Integrum, which invests in insurance services, financial services and other business services.

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Big Moves: Centerbridge, Hellman & Friedman, Berkshire Partners

The following Big Move! items appeared in the May 23, 2025 free edition of Private Equity Career News:

Peter Andjelkovich late last year joined the Chicago office of buyout firm Centerbridge Partners as managing director of investor relations and investment consultant coverage, according to his Linkedin profile. Andjelkovich previously served as managing director of consultant relations at Neuberger Berman.

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