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The following select “Big Move” items appeared in the August 25 edition of Private Equity Career News. To get all of our Big Move! items make sure to become a member.
Big Move! Ben Samild is tapped to serve as chief investment officer of Future Fund, a Melbourne, Australia-based sovereign wealth fund, according to his Linkedin profile. Samild joined the organization in 2013 after serving as head of investment strategy at LUCRF Super.
With a dual goal of growing health care companies and helping patients, Dr. Joshua Z. Warren has founded Chicago-based Apex Growth Capital.
The former vice president of Thomas H. Lee Partners leads one of several private equity shops newly on our radar this summer. They include Ames, Iowa-based Ames Capital Partners, founded by two ex-executives of San Francisco-based Golden Gate Capital, and Saothair Capital Partners,a Radnor, Pennsylvania-based firm whose managing partner served earlier as a vice president at turnaround firm KPS Capital Partners.
Public School and Education Employee Retirement Systems of Missouri are expected to add one or two more members to the alternative investment staff at their recently opened St. Louis office.
The Police & Firemen’s Retirement System of New Jersey this month launched a search for a chief investment officer to take the reins of a pension fund that also has openings for heads of private equity, private credit, real estate and infrastructure.
The following “Big Move” items appeared in the August 18 free edition of Private Equity Career News. To get all of our Big Move! items make sure to become a member.
Big Move! Catherine Anne Prideaux returns to Dallas-based food and consumer-focused buyout firm Kainos Capital as a vice president, according to her Linkedin profile. Prideaux earlier worked as a senior associate at the firm before leaving to study at The Wharton School.
After nearly 15 years working at Madison Dearborn Partners, David Pequet has joined buyout firm Platinum Equity to serve as managing director of investor relations. Both firms are prolific fund-raisers.
Avante Capital Partners, a Los Angeles-based private credit and structured equity shop known for its support of women and minorities, both as employees and as owners of portfolio companies, has opened a search for its first head of investor relations. The search comes as the firm prepares to launch its first non-SBIC fund, marketed as the "Amplify" fund.
Former BlackRock Managing Director Deirdre O’Connor has joined Cerberus Capital Management as chief financial officer, a hiring that boosts the number of women in senior leadership at the firm and follows a string of recent hires.
The following “Big Move” items appeared in the August 11 free edition of Private Equity Career News. To get all of our Big Move! items make sure to become a member.
Big Move! Scott Blanchette joins New York City-based buyout firm Arsenal Capital Partners as director of technology. According to his Linkedin profile, Blanchette recently served as chairman and CEO of Greenbrier Group.
Leadership spots have recently opened at several public pensions and a sovereign wealth fund, including four located in the diversity and emerging manager-friendly states of Connecticut and Illinois.
The openings include the following: