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Centerfield Capital seeks junior, mid-level investment pros

Lower-middle-market shop Centerfield Capital Partners has launched a search for two investment team members, one analyst or associate and one senior associate or vice president.

The Indianapolis-based firm, which is investing from its $400 million fifth fund, is staffing up in anticipation of raising a sixth fund, according to a recent LinkedIn post about the jobs.

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Big Moves: Hamilton Lane, Alpine Investors, 424 Capital

The following Big Move! items appeared in the June 27 free edition of Private Equity Career News:

Tara Blackburn moves from managing director into a senior business advisor role at Conshohocken, Pennsylvania-based money manager Hamilton Lane, according to her Linkedin profile. Blackburn joined the firm in 2007 after working for 13 years at money manager Pacific Corporate Group.

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Emerging manager-focused New Catalyst seeks junior investor, controller

Emerging manager backer New Catalyst Strategic Partners is adding a junior investment professional to its team, along with a controller to serve as a finance lead.

It’s an opportunity to join a roughly eight-person firm, not including operating partners, that launched early last year in partnership with New York City-based alternatives investment giant Apollo Global Management.

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Former Onex executive launches industrials-focused PE firm

Matthew Ross, who worked at Toronto-based Onex for 17 years, most recently as managing director in its private equity division, has started a firm to back industrial businesses.

Ross serves as chief executive officer at Ascend Industries, which invests in the “industrial value chain and specifically in complex or technical products and services,” according to the company website. Ascend Industries plans to pursue relatively few opportunities. It will take its time in building businesses and make long-term decisions “without the constraints of traditional private equity timelines.”

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Start-up software firms with ties to OpenView, Vista Equity hunt deals

Two new private equity firms are out seeking deals, one targeting early-stage software companies, the other late-stage, and both having their sights set on raising debut funds.

Boston-based early-stage venture firm Tremont was co-founded last year by General Partners Chris Gaertner and Tom Holahan along with Operating Partner Kyle Poyar. The trio held similar positions at Boston-based OpenView Capital, an expansion-stage venture firm that raised a seventh flagship fund of $570 million in 2023. A Forbes article later that year noted OpenView Capital suspended new investments after the departures of two partners, Mackey Craven and Ricky Pelletier.

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Big Moves: Lexington Partners, William Blaire, Sole Source Capital

The following Big Move! items ran in the June 20 free edition of Private Equity Career News:

Douglas Bourne joins the United Arab Emirate office of secondary buyer Lexington Partners as managing director of Middle East investor relations, according to his Linkedin profile. Bourne most recently served as country head of Schroders Middle East.

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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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