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The following Big Move! items appeared in the August 1, 2025 edition of Private Equity Career News:
Tom Hussey opens a London office for growth equity firm Brighton Park Capital, which has its headquarters in Greenwich, Connecticut along with offices located in New York City and San Francisco. Hussey, who most recently spent 12 years working on technology deals at growth equity firm General Atlantic, is charged with leading and expanding the European team.
After leading a handful of early-stage venture deals in the Midwest, the partners of 11-year-old WISC Partners have turned their attention to backing later-stage tech-enabled services companies.
The partners have also set their sights on raising $50 million for a second fund, and on eventually turning the firm over to a new generation of executives still largely to be hired.
The following Big Move! items appeared in the July 25, 2025 free edition of Private Equity Career news:
Mascha Canio is named managing investment director for the private debt portfolio of California Pubic Employees' Retirement System. Canio spent the previous nine years as head of credit and insurance-linked investments at Dutch pension fund manager PGGM.
AustralianSuper has hired emerging-manager-specialist Eneasz Kadziela, the former deputy CIO of the New York City Retirement Systems.
The appointment is part of the A$365 billion ($240 billion) fund’s effort to rapidly grow its New York City-based private markets team, which has added several senior professionals over the past year.
Harrison Davis has left as partner at New York City-based buyout firm TZP Group to join mid-cap firm H.I.G Capital as a managing director for its Miami office. The move is one of several recent departures from prominent PE firms or investors.
Two former executives at Brighton Park Capital and BV Investment Partners have, respectively, launched their own PE firms this year with the goal of taking small software and technology companies to the next level.
Jeff Machlin, who left growth equity shop Brighton Park Capital in January, started Greenwich, Connecticut-based Wingman Growth Partners the following month and recently began raising money for a debut fund, a regulatory filing shows. Machlin leads a team of about seven, including Partner Eric Anderson, who previously served as a vice president at software investor Vista Equity Partners.
The following Big Move! items appeared in the July 18 free edition of Private Equity Career News:
Wladimir Ortega joins the Boston office of fund administrator VISTRA as an enterprise account manager, according to his Linkedin profile. Ortega, who earlier in his career served as senior investment officer-private markets at the Office of the New York City Comptroller, most recently served as senior sales executive at SS&C Technologies.
Payrolls at nine publicly traded private equity firms grew by 7 percent last year and the early part of 2025. That marked a slightly lower rate than in 2023 and a far slower rate than in 2022, according to recent analysis by Private Equity Career News.
The introduction of new investment strategies may be behind some of that hiring, according to Charles Wilson, senior vice president of investment management for Selby Jennings.
A former partner of Brightstar Capital Partners has teamed up with a family office executive and long-time friend to launch a services and industrials-focused buyout shop. The pair have designs to launch a debut fund and to build a firm centered on trust, alignment of interest, and value creation.
The State of Wisconsin Investment Board has begun looking for a portfolio manager to work on a collection of venture capital investments.
In opening its search SWIB joins a number of pension funds, including two of the country's largest, hunting for PE talent. California Public Employees' Retirement System has opened a search for a level I investment officer to work on both PE fund commitments and co-investments; California State Teachers' Retirement System has opened a search for an associate portfolio manager of direct PE investments.