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The following Big Move items appeared in the January 16 edition of Private Equity Career News:
Big Move! UK-based Zeynep Tumer Bayazid joins buyout firm AEA Investors as head of EMEA on the investor relations and fundraising team, according to her Linkedin profile. Bayazid most recently served as partner and head of business development at AlbaCore Capital Group.
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It was another year of rapid change in the PE hiring market, as the percent of female hiring dropped, on-cycle recruiting fell out of fashion, and firms brought aboard experts in artificial intelligence. Below we take a closer look at seven of the biggest hiring trends spreading across the market.
General Atlantic’s head of global talent acquisition, Kristen DiStasio, has left the New York City-based growth equity firm, whose headcount has nearly doubled to 588 over the last half dozen years.
The trend may have started with giants like Apollo Global Management and Blackstone Group, but now the hiring of ESG professionals is heading downmarket.
Firms that have hired professionals with experience in managing environmental, social and governance programs in recent months include General Atlantic, Blue Owl Capital, MiddleGround Capital, and NGP Energy Capital.
At the same time, the large shops continue to add ESG talent: