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• Another exec leaves Wilshire Private Markets 10 Mar 2010. Source: AltAssets. Wilshire Private Markets’ CIO Jeff Ennis has resigned, with the private equity fund of funds halting fundraising, a report by consultant Hymans Robertson has revealed.

• GMAC CFO heads to Providence Equity Partners 10 Mar 2010. Source: AltAssets. Providence Equity Partners, a global private equity firm specialising in media, entertainment and communications investments, has hired former GMAC executive vice president and CFO Robert Hull. He will join Providence as CFO, succeeding Raymond Mathieu, who will become a managing director focused on special projects.

• Advent International poaches Carlyle investor relations executive 09 Mar 2010. Source: AltAssets. Private equity firm Advent International has bolstered its ability to service investors with the hire of Robert Brown, a former managing director of Carlyle’s North American fundraising and investor relations.

• Carlyle ramps up debt business with new hire 09 Mar 2010. Source: AltAssets. Morgan Stanley’s former sales and trading chief, Mitch Petrick, will join private equity firm Carlyle to head its distressed debt and leveraged finance business in the US and Europe.

• KKR nabs Sen from Citi for India office 08 Mar 2010. Source: AltAssets. KKR has hired the former south Asia CFO of Citigroup, Abhijit Sen, making him responsible for two roles within the private equity firm’s Indian office.

• CalPERS appoints former Barclays exec as chief operating investment officer 08 Mar 2010. Source: AltAssets. The California Public employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) has appointed Janine Guillot as the pension fund’s chief operating investment officer.

• Warburg Pincus says goodbye to India head 05 Mar 2010. Source: AltAssets. Warburg Pincus, one of the biggest private equity houses in the businesses, is facing a transition as managing director Rajesh Khanna has handed in his notice to “pursue the formation of an independent investment business in India”.

• Fund administrator Augentius appoints managing director for Guernsey 03 Mar 2010. Source: AltAssets. Augentius Fund Administration, a provider of fund administration services to the private equity sector, has appointed Glyn Thomas as managing director of its Guernsey office.

• UK’s Foresight Group adds investment director 01 Mar 2010. Source: AltAssets. UK-based alternative asset manager Foresight Group has appointed Federico Giannandrea as investment director, where he will be responsible for originating, structuring and executing solar transactions.

• Alvarez & Marsal strengthens German restructuring and turnaround practice 26 Feb 2010. Source: AltAssets. Alvarez & Marsal, an independent professional services firm that is managing the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy, has augmented its team in Germany by appointing Paul Taaffe as a managing director to its restructuring and turnaround practice.

• France’s Activa Capital makes two new hires 24 Feb 2010. Source: AltAssets. French private equity firm Activa Capital has made two appointments as it gears up for deals in the mid-market, hiring Pierre Chabaud and Gautier Rousseau as investment executives.

• VC firm Environmental Technologies Fund partners up 22 Feb 2010. Source: AltAssets. Environmental Technologies Fund (ETF), a European venture capital firm investing in the cleantech and renewables sector, has appointed Robert Genieser as a partner in the firm’s London office.

• Schroder Private Equity Fund of Funds director resigns 22 Feb 2010. Source: AltAssets. The director of Schroder Private Equity Fund of Funds, Conor Killeen, has stepped down from his position at the listed investment company.

• New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg moves his fortune out of Quadrangle 22 Feb 2010. Source: AltAssets. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is to move his private fortune out of US private equity firm Quadrangle Group. He will transfer his billions into a new investment fund devoted exclusively to his money and that of his charity, the Bloomberg Family Foundation, with several Quadrangle employees migrating to manage the assets.

• CalPERS reinstates Feckner for sixth term 19 Feb 2010. Source: AltAssets. The California Public Employees’ Retirement System has unanimously reinstated Rob Feckner to a sixth term as president of the biggest pension fund in the US.

• Rockefeller venture firm Venrock welcomes former Washington official 16 Feb 2010. Source: AltAssets. Venrock, a firm established as the venture arm of the Rockefeller family, has hired former Washington official Bruce Pasternack as an operating partner. In his role, Pasternack will support companies in the firm’s energy portfolio and provide alignment with US governmental energy policy.

• Mid-market PE firm Stirling Square adds two executives 16 Feb 2010. Source: AltAssets. Pan-European mid-market private equity firm Stirling Square Capital Partners has augmented its team with the appointments of Gideon Glassman and Enrico Biale as executives.

• Tech VC Alberto Vilar sentenced to nine years for fraud 16 Feb 2010. Source: AltAssets. Amerindo co-founder Alberto Vilar has been handed a lengthy sentence for committing securities fraud, wire fraud and money laundering, according to reports. Ignoring pleas for a community service-only sentence, US district judge Richard Sullivan sentenced the 69-year-old philanthropist and technology investor to nine years in prison.

• Mid-market PE firm Silverfleet strengthens German team 12 Feb 2010. Source: AltAssets. European mid-market private equity investor Silverfleet Capital has strengthened its German team with the hire of a new investment executive, Falko Westphalen. The addition comes six months after the firm made the first deal from its latest, €665m fund, acquiring Kalle, a German artificial sausage casings manufacturer.

• Blackstone bolsters German team to take advantage of opportunities 10 Feb 2010. Source: AltAssets. Blackstone, the private equity industry’s biggest player, has brought Dr Axel Herberg into its European operations as a senior managing director to head its operations in Germany, Switzerland and Austria, as it sees opportunities in the region.

• General Atlantic appoints senior adviser for Europe 10 Feb 2010. Source: AltAssets. Growth equity firm General Atlantic has hired Mike McTighe, the chairman of Pace, Volex Group and WYG Group, as a special adviser. McTighe will provide strategic counsel to the firm and its portfolio companies, with a focus on Europe.

• Apollo’s Leon Black does not see mega-deals returning 10 Feb 2010. Source: AltAssets. Banks are becoming more relaxed about lending for buy-outs but mega-deals of the boom are unlikely to return, Reuters reports Apollo Management founder Leon Black as saying.

• Accel Partners India gains principal 09 Feb 2010. Source: AltAssets. Anand Daniel, previously of Boston-based venture capital firm Flybridge Capital Partners, has left the US to return to India. He is now with Accel Partners as a principal, according to reports.