Weekly People and Company News
- Matt Okolita has been named the new regional CEO Americas of IQ-EQ, a global fund administrator. Okolita previously held the role of Global Head of Outsourced Business Services. As part of the transition, Mark Fordyce will remain as non-executive chairman of IQ-EQ Americas.
- Ryan Croteau has been hired as managing director, consultant relations by global alternatives manager ICG. In his role, he will work as part of the wider marketing and client relations team. Croteau joins ICG from Sun Life Capital Management, where he served as head of consultant relations.
- Dustin Hollas and Alyssa Fox have been hired by lower-middle-market private equity firm Capstreet as principal, business development and senior vice president of marketing, operating executive group, respectively. Hollas joins from Clovis Point Capital. Fox was previously vice president of channel marketing at Alert Logic.
- Benjamin Young has been named CIO, managing director of Buckingham, a real estate development and investment company. Young will head the asset management and investment division. He was recently managing director at BlackRock and a senior member of the real assets group.
- Michael Clurman has been named managing director for FocusPoint Private Capital Group, an independent capital raising, and advisory firm focused on private capital markets. Prior to joining FocusPoint, Clurman was a managing director at Jefferies & Co.
- Jamie Claire Kiser has been hired as principal for Bernhard Capital Partners, a services and infrastructure-focused private equity management firm. Most recently, Kiser was at Zweig Group, where she served as managing principal and director of advisory services and led the M&A team.
- SER Capital Partners, a private investment firm focused on sustainability, has acquired all the issued and outstanding shares of Charah Solutions Inc., a provider of environmental services and byproduct recycling to the power generation industry, for $6 per share, from Bernhard Capital Partners.
- SpecterOps, a cybersecurity solutions provider, raised $15mn in a Series A venture funding round led by Decibel. This funding will accelerate the adoption of BloodHound Enterprise (BHE), the industry’s first platform for removing identity attack paths in Microsoft’s Active Directory and Azure.
- Blue Sage Capital, a private equity firm, has made an investment in NexGen Financial in partnership with Four Point Capital Advisors. NexGen offers capital services to debt settlement companies. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
- Odeko, which provides operations support to independent coffee shops, has raised a $53mn Series D led by B Capital and joined by Tiger Global, among others. The round brought the total to $177mn. The platform serves approximately 10,000 independent businesses across 16 major markets.
