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Weekly People Roundup: 5 October 200505/10/2005. 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.
Pierre Chappaz, the founder of the shopping engine Kelkoo and former president of Yahoo! Europe, has joined Index Ventures as an entrepreneur-in-residence. In his new role, Chappaz will work closely with the partners of Index Ventures to identify investment opportunities in the online services space. Index Ventures investments include Skype, Betfair and MySQL.
Christina Pamberg has left fund of funds manager HarbourVest to join US buy-out giant Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. as head of investor relations and co-investments in Europe.
US private equity giant The Carlyle Group has appointed Andrew Burgess as managing director in the London office. He joins the European buy-out team, which manages the Carlyle Europe Partners I fund - fully invested, and the €1.8bn Carlyle Europe Partners II fund, closed in March 2005. Burgess, a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, joins Carlyle from Bridgepoint, where he was a director of the buy-out group based in London.
Triangle has appointed Soeren Schuster, who previously worked for Technologieholding and 3i. At Triangle Schuster will focus on software, micro- and nanosystems and semiconductor-related technologies. Triangle specialises in the development of high-tech companies with an emphasis on software and physical technologies growing out of German universities and being commercialised in the IT and medical device industries.
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