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Weekly People Roundup: 14 September 200514/09/2005. 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.
The Aurora Funds has promoted Jan Bouten to the role of senior associate. Bouten will continue to support existing portfolio companies and to identify new IT investment opportunities. He joined The Aurora Funds in 2003 as part of the investment team focusing on IT. The Aurora Funds provides capital and strategic help to entrepreneurs with early stage life sciences and IT companies in the South-Eastern and mid-Atlantic United States. The firm has more than $200m of total capital under management and is currently investing out of its fifth fund.
UK venture capital firm Quester has appointed Dr Penny Attridge as director of intellectual property. She will work closely with the Sulis and Lachesis University Challenge Funds and will focus on generating commercial value from the universities' IP. Dr Attridge joins Quester from BTG, where she identified and acquired early stage inventions from academia and SMEs in the UK which were then developed and commercialised. Quester has approximately £250m under management. It has teams specialising in two areas - information and communication technologies, and healthcare and life sciences. Quester manages venture capital funds on behalf of international institutional investors and funds from academic institutions including Oxford, Bath, Bristol and Southampton Universities and a consortium of universities in the East Midlands. It also has three listed venture capital trusts.
The Latin American Venture Capital Association's board of directors has elected David E Thomas, managing director of Intel Capital Latin America, as the Association's new chairman. He succeeds Richard Frank, CEO of Darby Overseas Investments. The mission of the LAVCA is to promote the growth of the venture capital and private equity industry in Latin America and the Caribbean through research, education, networking, best practices and the advocacy of sound public policy. LAVCA is a not-for-profit trade association serving a core membership of venture capital and private equity fund managers active in the region.
European venture capital firm Amadeus Capital Partners has appointed Alastair Breward as chief operating officer. Alastair will assume responsibility for finance, human resources, information technology and information services. Breward began his career working in IT with Arthur Andersen's consulting division before joining specialist technology company Talman Pty in Sydney, Australia. He took a diploma in law at Sydney University and returned to the UK in 1992 to work for Bird & Bird, a specialist IT and IP law firm. He then gained three years' commercial experience as general counsel for Virtuality Group before joining Taylor Wessing, where he became a partner in 2002, advising mainly venture capital funds and fast-growing technology companies on both sides of the Atlantic. Amadeus invests venture capital in new technologies from offices in London and Cambridge, UK.
Northern European buy-out firm EQT Partners has appointed Petri Myllyneva as partner and head of the firm's Helsinki office. The current head of the Finnish operation has held the position since inception in 1998 and will continue as senior partner. Myllyneva has worked at Roschier Holmberg Attorneys for the past two years, heading their Turku Office. Prior to that he worked at Perkin Elmer Life Sciences as senior vice president, acquisitions and integration. Before that Myllyneva spent six years in various management positions at Wallac Oy (now Perkin Elmer Finland). EQT focuses on mid-sized companies in Northern Europe. EQT has offices in Copenhagen, Frankfurt, Helsinki, Munich and Stockholm, all with local management teams.
AXA Private Equity has appointed Werner Quillmann as managing director, direct funds. He has been employed to strengthen AXA Private Equity's German LBO Team, based in Frankfurt office. Quillmann is founder and former managing partner of Bad Homburg-based Equita Management, the German private equity business of the Harald Quandt Group. Prior to that he was managing director at Berlin-based BB Kapitalbeteiligungsgesellschaft; a member of the management board at Frankfurt-based Deutsche Beteiligungsgesellschaft; and vice president of the Berliner Handels- und Frankfurter Bank's direct investments department. AXA Private Equity, a subsidiary of AXA Investment Managers, currently has €7bn under management. Its offices are located in Paris, Frankfurt, London, New York and Singapore.
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