Uses proprietary software to select prospects Works with potential partners on projects before investing Each PeakSpan partner works on 3 B2B software themes Matt Melymuka co-founded PeakSpan Capital in 2015 with Phil Dur and Brian Mulvey. The firm, focused on growth investments in B2B software, in January closed its sophomore fund on $265 million, exceeding the […]
This week's jobs include a principal at Park Hill, a vice president at Partners Group and associates at Great Point and Trive Capital.
PRIVATE EQUITY FIRMS Carlyle Group promoted 60 professionals, including five to partner, 22 to managing director and 33 to principal and director. The new partners are Rich Dunne, AlpInvest, New York, Norma Kuntz, fund management, Washington, Matthew Savino, global capital markets, New York, Sarah Schwarzschild, metropolitan real estate, New York, and Ling Yang, Asia buyout, Shanghai. […]
Steinbugl joined Johns Hopkins in 2006 Will focus on various asset classes at PSU with concentration on natural resources and real estate Johns Hopkins endowment was selling PE portfolio in ’18 Jim Steinbugl, an investment officer who worked on private equity and other asset classes at Johns Hopkins’s endowment, joined Penn State University’s endowment on Jan. 14. […]
This week’s jobs include a managing director at Cambridge Associates and associates at Macquarie and CIM Group.
Left Texas Teachers’ at year-end Focus on middle market, larger opportunities Texas Teachers’ plans to fill the vacancy Brad Thawley, a longtime PE-investment officer with Teacher Retirement System of Texas, joined UTIMCO on the private-markets team at the start of the year, according to sources. Thawley left Texas Teachers’ around year-end as a senior investment […]
This week’s jobs include a vice president at Morgan Stanley and associates at Wind Point and Baird.
PRIVATE EQUITY FIRMS Principle Capital, the Shanghai private equity firm, named Raymond Lau a vice president. Lau is former managing director of Lau Equity, a family investment office. Tailwater Capital, the Dallas energy-focused private equity firm, promoted Joel Fry to partner; Scott Peters to vice president/E&P portfolio manager, and Clark Hudnall and Tanner Newton to senior associate. ICV Partners promoted John Wallace to managing director and named Everett Hill […]
GP-led secondaries create more orderly liquidity options for investors Kerr expects GP-led transactions to grow to 25-30 pct of the market in the coming year Total secondary market transactions expected to near $70 bln for 2018 Tom Kerr is head of secondaries at Hamilton Lane. He spoke with Buyouts about the mainstreaming of GP-led transactions and […]
This week’s jobs include associates at BRS, Gatewood and Liberty Mutual.