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Weekly People Roundup: 31 August 200531/08/2005. 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.
Initium Venture Capital has appointed Dr Garrett Lindemann as venture analyst for life sciences. Dr Lindemann joins the firm as an independent consultant serving the biotech, pharmaceuticals and medical device sectors.
His recent assignments include serving multiple private and public companies in North America and Europe, where he led business planning, business development, product development and regulatory efforts. Prior to launching his consulting firm, Dr Lindemann was a senior scientist at Roche Diagnostics and vice president of research and development for a start-up pharmaceutical company.
Early stage venture capital fund BlueRun Ventures, formerly known as Nokia Venture Partners, has opened a new office in Shanghai, China, and appointed Andrew Chen as investment director for the office. Previously Chen was business director with Silicon Storage Technologies and a management consultant with McKinsey & Company in Shanghai.
He started his career as a circuit designer at Bell Labs Lucent Technologies in New Jersey, USA. BlueRun Ventures is a global venture capital fund focused on early stage companies in the IT, mobile, and consumer markets. BlueRun Ventures, headquartered in Menlo Park, California, has offices in Helsinki, Herzelia, London, New Delhi, Seoul, Shanghai, Tokyo and Washington, D.C.
The Houston Private Equity Association has named Dr Christopher W Kersey new president from 1 September 2005. Kersey, managing director of Cogene Ventures, succeeds Gaines Matthews, who recently formed Matthews Capital Management.
The HPEA provides a networking and educational forum for the venture capital and private equity community in the Greater Houston Area. Member firms manage risk equity capital for investment in venture capital, mezzanine, buy-outs and other private equity transactions. The 50 member firms collectively manage more than $15bn of assets.
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