Ex-OMERS, Charlesbank execs team to launch PE firm

George Barsness, a dealmaker who recently served as a managing director for OMERS Private Equity, has teamed up with John Keeney, a fundraiser who recently served as a managing director of investor relations at buyout shop Charlesbank Capital Partners, to form a new investment firm.

Based in New York City and San Francisco, Grandview plans to cut equity checks of $50 million to $200 million to acquire companies in business services and technology. Barsness and Keeney began serving as partners at the firm this fall, according to their LinkedIn profiles.

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Internship programs pay dividends for Charlesbank, Stone Point

One day PE recruiters may start giving presentations in maternity wards.

Maybe not. But the trend to get in front of promising candidates earlier and earlier shows no sign of easing, as college internship programs at PE firms Charlesbank Capital Partners, Nautic Partners and Stone Point Capital and funds-of-funds manager Twin Bridge Capital Partners become a fruitful pipeline for filling their junior analyst ranks.

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Big Moves: World Bank Pension, Charlesbank, Stone-Goff

The following Big Move! items appeared in the July 5 edition of Private Equity Career News:

Alona Ponomareva, manager of the European PE portfolio of the World Bank Pension, spearheaded the launch of a Paris chapter for the Private Equity Women Investor Network, or PEWIN. "The inaugural event sponsored by Tiana Rambatomanga at Willkie Farr was a fantastic opportunity for senior women to come together and create a powerful network for sharing ideas, exploring opportunities to work together and increasing the profile of female leaders in our industry," Ponomareva wrote in a Linkedin post.

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Charlesbank, Beach Point hire senior talent execs

Buyout firm Charlesbank Capital Partners and credit shopBeach Point Capital  Management have hired new senior talent executives, the latest moves by PE firms to strengthen their talent leadership ranks. Both firms employ teams of more than 160 people.

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Sageview finds success hiring analysts right out of college

Deal sponsors compete so hard to hire junior professionals that they woo them almost from the moment they start their two-year investment banking programs in a process called "on-cycle recruiting." Now Sageview Capital and other big firms are in some cases sidestepping the frenzy by hiring and training analysts directly out of college.

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