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Weekly People Roundup: 28 September 200528/09/2005. 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.
HgCapital has promoted Alex Shivananda to managing director Benelux; Ben Hewetson, Robin Lincoln, Richard Mathews and Jill Ridley-Smith to directors and Steven Batchelor to associate director. Shivananda joined the firm in 2001. Prior to HgCapital he was the executive director of PaperExchange. Hewetson is head of the leisure team and has been with HgCapital since 1999. He previously worked for Bankers Trust in leveraged finance. Lincoln joined HgCapital in 2001 from ISIS Private Equity. Mathews joined in 1998, having worked for five years as a strategy consultant with Braxton Associates. Ridley-Smith joined in 2000. She previously worked at SmithKline Beecham. Batchelor joined the client services and fund raising team in 2003, following three years with Morgan Stanley.
US firm Praesidian Capital Investors, a provider of mezzanine capital to middle-market companies, has appointed Christopher T Daniel as managing director to head the firm's office in Los Angeles, California. Daniel most recently invested on behalf of a high-net-worth family office. Prior to this he served as a partner at Windjammer Capital, helping to manage over $700m of mezzanine and equity investments. Daniel has also held positions in the leveraged finance group of Citicorp Securities and the real estate consulting practice of Ernst & Young - Kenneth Leventhal & Company. Praesidian closed its debut fund on $156m in February this year.
3i has strengthened its infrastructure team in London with the appointments of Neil King and Dougie Sutherland as partners, Alistair Ray as director and Angela Roshier as associate. The team now comprises seven professionals. King previously worked at Innisfree, an independent PFI investment fund, and at WestLB, where he ran the London infrastructure team. Sutherland has worked for both the public and private sectors before joining 3i. He was at Lend Lease, where he led their PFI hospitals and schools business. He also worked for Amey Ventures and HM Treasury. Ray has spent eight years transacting equity investments in infrastructure with the British Linen Bank, Edison Capital and Noble Fund Managers. Roshier joins 3i from Actis, where she has spent six years investing in infrastructure assets involving the port, airport, power, rail and cement sectors.
Canada's Venture Capital & Private Equity Association has appointed Rick Nathan, managing director of Goodmans Venture Group, as president of the Association. Nathan succeeds Ventures West Management's Dr Robin Louis, who will assume the role of chairman. At Goodmans Venture Group Nathan provides legal counsel and strategic business advice to entrepreneurs and emerging growth companies and to investors in the Canadian market. Nathan has played an active role in the Canadian venture capital industry, including as a member of the Executive Committee and Board of Directors of the CVCA since 1999. He is also a director of the Centre for Innovation Law and Policy at the University of Toronto, a member of the Canadian e-Business Opportunities Roundtable and a member of the Canadian Bar Association.
UK mid-market private equity firm ISIS Equity Partners has appointed Matt Caffrey to its New Investments team in Birmingham. Caffrey joins from the leveraged finance business of NM Rothschild & Sons, where he spent three years arranging debt packages for corporate and private equity-backed transactions. Prior to joining Rothschild, Caffrey was at Andersen. ISIS focuses on the business and financial services, consumer markets, healthcare and education, media, and IT sectors. The firm - with offices in London, Birmingham and Manchester - has funds under management of over £500m.
ISIS has also appointed Henrietta (Het) Marsh to lead its AIM investing on behalf of the Baronsmead VCTs. Marsh gained UK small cap investment and private equity experience during 14 years at 3i. ISIS applies its expertise across both private and AIM-quoted companies, deploying private equity disciplines where possible in subscribing to AIM-traded companies, the firm said in a statement.
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