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PRINT THIS PAGE Weekly People Roundup: 5 December 200705/12/2007. 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. GE Commercial Finance has appointed managing director Thomas Regan as group head of sponsor coverage for its media, communications and entertainment business. Regan's role will be to develop relationships amongst large-cap sponsors and private equity firms with interests in the media, communications and entertainment industries.
Frank Douglas has joined the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation as a senior fellow in entrepreneurship. His primary responsibilities will be to explore partnerships with the research community, entrepreneurially-minded philanthropies in the life-sciences area and finding additional sources of capital. Douglas will also maintain his current posts as a partner of PureTech Ventures and as chief scientific advisor of Bayer Healthcare. The Kansas City-based foundation was founded in the late 1960s and is a private, non-partisan foundation that works with partners to advance entrepreneurship in America.
Mid-market investment bank Piper Jaffray Private Capital has expanded its fund of funds team to include Mike Pohlen, who will join the firm's Minneapolis office. Pohlen will evaluate and monitor venture capital, LBOs and direct investment opportunities. Previously, he served as vice president, investment banking with Piper Jaffray. He has also held positions with TerraVest Income Fund and Deephaven Capital Management.
Candover Investments has appointed Lord Jay of Ewelme as a non-executive director, as of 1 January 2008. Lord Jay is a former Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office and head of the Diplomatic Service, having previously served as British ambassador to France. He was also Tony Blair's personal representative to the G8 Summits in 2005 and 2006. He is a non-executive director of Associated British Foods in the UK and Crédit Agricole and Valeo in France.
Northern Trust, the multi-asset-class investment management business of Northern Trust Corporation, has appointed Raj N Vora to its private equity team. Vora will work in the firm's multi-manager division, Northern Trust Global Advisors, focusing on portfolio management, sourcing and due diligence of new investments and investor relations for the fund of funds group. Prior to Northern Trust, Vora was an associate at Chicago-based LBO firm Wind Point Partners. He also served as the head of corporate development for a Wind Point portfolio company. Before joining Wind Point, he worked in the investment banking division at Goldman Sachs in New York.
US leveraged mid-market buy-out firm High Road Capital Partners has added William B R Hobbs as a partner. Hobbs will primarily work with High Road's portfolio companies. High Road seeks to acquire companies with revenues of $10-100m and EBITDA of $2-10m. The firm has approximately $100m of committed capital under management.
CVC Capital Partners has appointed Stephen Vineburg as chief executive of the firm's newly established infrastructure investment business. CVC will launch a new $2bn fund early in 2008, which will seek to make investments primarily in infrastructure assets in Europe and also Asia and the US, according to a statement. Vineburg previously was global head of infrastructure investment at Colonial First State Global Asset Management, the investment management arm of Commonwealth Bank of Australia. CVC is currently investing from CVC Fund IV, CVC Asia II and CVC Tandem Fund, with an aggregate of $15bn in equity capital.
Pomona Capital has hired Seth Katz as director, fund of funds. Katz will be responsible for leading Pomona's $2.1bn fund of funds operations. He will be based in New York. Katz spent several years at The Rockefeller University, where he managed the endowment's private assets portfolio which included investments in venture capital, LBOs, real estate and energy. Prior to Rockefeller, Katz worked at von Braun & Schreiber Private Equity Partners in Munich, making primary and secondary private equity investments in Europe and the US. Pomona manages approximately $4.5bn in commitments across a series of secondaries funds, primary funds of funds and co-investment funds. The firm owns partnership interests in over 400 private equity funds.
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