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Weekly People Roundup: 24 August 200524/08/2005. Source: AltAssets. 
 All the week's most important people stories from across the globe. Essential reading for those who need to keep up-to-date with the private equity industry's key staff moves.
US buy-out giant The Blackstone Group has appointed Javed Khan as deputy managing director of the firm's recently established India office in Mumbai. Previously Khan was a director with DLJ Merchant Banking. Blackstone has offices in New York, Atlanta, Boston, Los Angeles, London, Hamburg, Mumbai and Paris.
US private equity firm TA Associates has appointed Harry D Taylor and Nigel M Howard as vice presidents. They will be based in the firm's Boston office. Taylor will specialise in investments in technology-based growth companies, while Howard will focus on investments in the financial services, business services and consumer sectors. Taylor joins TA after four years at MMC Capital as a senior associate, where he focused on investments in the financial services and technology sectors. Howard previously worked as an analyst in the mergers and acquisitions division at Salomon Smith Barney and in associate positions with private equity firms. TA manages $6bn in capital and has offices in Boston, Menlo Park and London. The firm provides capital for buy-outs and leveraged recapitalisations and growth equity capital for technology, financial services, business services, consumer and healthcare businesses.
UK mid-market private equity specialist Graphite Capital has recruited David Williams as a partner and Mike Innes as an investment director. Williams joins Graphite from Sand Aire Private Equity, the firm that he set up in 1997. He began his career with 3i, where he led larger management buy-outs and buy-ins including Prontaprint. Innes joins the firm from the Bank of Scotland, where he led investments in a range of sectors including business services and leisure. He began his career as a solicitor with Clifford Chance and subsequently founded an internet-based legal recruitment consultancy before joining Bank of Scotland. Graphite is a specialist provider of private equity finance to UK mid-market companies. Typically the firm invests between £10-50m of equity in transactions valued at up to £125m. Graphite focuses on management buy-outs and buy-ins, expansion capital, replacement capital and turnaround opportunities.
Cipio Partners, an international private equity investment firm focused on the acquisition and management of direct investment portfolios in the secondary market, has appointed Maximilian Schroeck as managing partner to head up the firm's newly opened office in San Jose. Schroeck joins Cipio Partners from Agilent Technologies. Prior to joining Agilent, he was with management consulting firm A.T. Kearney. Cipio Partners, founded in 2003, now has 11 professionals.
Munich-based venture capital firm Wellington Partners has appointed Dr Melvin K Spigelman as a new venture partner to strengthen its life science team prior to fundraising. In his new role Dr Spigelman will advise Wellington Partners' portfolio companies, help select new investments and take board seats. His particular focus will be on supporting portfolio companies with respect to clinical development and approval in the US, and on forging partnerships with US companies. Dr Spigelman and Wellington Partners have worked together on selected projects since 2003. As a director of the Global Alliance for TB Drug Development, a non-profit New York organisation, Dr Spigelman is responsible for research and development in the battle against tuberculosis. He had previously held executive positions at BASF Pharma USA. Wellington Partners invests in start-ups throughout Europe in the information and communication technology, and life science sectors. The firm manages a total fund volume of €400m.
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