PRIVATE EQUITY FIRMS Abraaj Group: Kito de Boer joined as a managing partner. In 2014, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry appointed de Boer head of mission of the Office of the Quartet in Jerusalem. Prior to this diplomatic posting, de Boer worked at McKinsey & Co. Angel Island Capital named Dev Gopalan CEO. Previously, he was head of U.S. private credit at KKR. AIC […]
There is momentum in Washington to lighten the regulatory burden on private equity. That was the sentiment expressed by speakers at the Association for Corporate Growth’s 2017 Middle Market Public Policy Forum in late September. And while that momentum may be building, it doesn’t mean the industry is likely to see any wholesale rollback of […]
Thuet moves into vice chairman role Costello joined from Morgan Stanley Calo named head of international secondary advisory Larry Thuet, head of Park Hill Group’s secondary advisory team, has moved into the role of vice chairman of secondary advisory, focusing primarily on clients and origination, according to an internal Park Hill Group memo seen by […]
According to this year’s Holt-MM&K-Buyouts Insider Compensation Report, the average person takes about a decade to climb the ladder from an MBA degree (or the equivalent in experience) to partner. The report surveyed more than 100 firms.
Raj Vora joins from CORE Industrial Partners Pjeter Dushku joined from Ridgewood Private Equity Metric Point working with Bernhard on fundraising Metric Point Capital, the placement firm formed by three Atlantic-Pacific Capital executives, hired Raj Vora and Pjeter Dushku as it builds out its team. Vora will join Metric Point’s Chicago office in October as […]
Women make up 17.9 pct of PE and 20.5 pct of VC Women are 9 pct of PE senior level execs and 11 pct of VC senior execs In PE, 27 pct of senior level women are in IR/marketing, 22 pct in finance/accounting Women make up less than one-tenth of senior executives in private equity and most […]
You are based in Boca Raton, Florida, which got hit hard by Hurricane Irma. How did you and the rest of the firm’s personnel make it out of the storm? I think we were very lucky. We didn’t sustain much damage. … Most of our team came away unscathed. I think most of the interruption […]
What is DSC Quantitative? Jeff: The idea, really simply and at its core, is to provide a more efficient way to access the return streams of private equity and venture capital. Art: Two of the products we’ve developed and launched in conjunction with Thomson Reuters are an investable private equity index and an investable venture […]
Argues for critical importance of benchmarking to operations team Favors public market equivalent technique, specifically Direct Alpha method PME benchmarking now part of Backstop’s portfolio management platform The title of a recent white paper by Ben Crawford throws down a gauntlet to GPs and LPs: “Every Institutional Operations Team Needs to Be Better at Benchmarking […]
Glaser led sponsor finance team, left firm this year Clients, responsibilities picked up by other team members Post-KKR plans unclear The chief operating officer of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts’s capital markets team, Peter Glaser, left the firm earlier this year, according to his LinkedIn. He is no longer listed on the firm’s website. Glaser was a […]