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Weekly People Roundup: 9 April 200809/04/2008. 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.
CMEA Ventures has promoted James Kim to senior partner in its energy and materials practices. Kim joined the firm in 2007 and has led investments in several energy companies, including A123 Systems. Previously, Kim worked for GE Commercial Finance where he led technology venture investments in the cleantech and advanced materials sectors. He has also served as an analyst with GCI Partners, an early stage IT venture capital consulting firm. CMEA focuses on investments in the energy and materials, high technology and life sciences sectors.
Venture capital firm New Enterprise Associates has appointed Jerry Rao and Amit Sharma as venture advisors to its newly expanded India-based subsidiary, NEA India. Prior to NEA, Rao was founder, chairman and CEO of MphasiS. He also worked with Citigroup as the country/regional manager in India, the Middle East, Eastern Europe and the UK. Previously, he headed Citibank's global technology development and global electronic cards divisions. Sharma currently serves as executive vice president and president, Asia, for American Tower Corporation. Previously, he served as country president, India and head of strategy, Asia-Pacific for Motorola. Prior to Motorola, he served as vice president of strategy and business development at GE Capital and worked at McKinsey.
San Francisco-based investment firm Bacchus Capital Management has appointed Mike Jaeger as president and COO. In his new role, Jaeger will be responsible for sourcing and evaluating potential transactions, overseeing the performance of Bacchus portfolio wineries and managing the research, investment and marketing teams. Most recently, he was the president and COO of Partida Tequila. Previously, he was president of the US wine business of Vincor International and group president of Constellation Brands. Bacchus specialises in mezzanine and private equity wine industry investments.
US private equity firm Pegasus Capital Advisors has appointed Steven G Marton as an operating advisor to the firm. Marton was most recently group president of office products at Newell Rubbermaid. Prior to that, he was president and COO of Hill's Pet Nutrition, and before that, he held leadership positions in Colgate-Palmolive's oral care business. Pegasus Capital provides capital solutions to mid-market companies across a number of industries. The firm manages $1.8bn from their offices in Connecticut and New York.
UK mid-market buy-out and fund of funds manager, Graphite Capital has appointed Dana Haimoff as partner. She previously held senior positions in private equity in New York and London, with Merrill Lynch and Prudential Securities, before becoming managing director of fund of funds for JPMorgan. Graphite Capital primarily invests in direct buy-out funds and third-party funds. All investments are made through their publicly quoted fund, Graphite Enterprise Trust.
Private equity investment firm Sun Capital Partners has appointed Michael J Satzberg as managing director of its Sun Capital Securities Fund. Satzberg will be responsible for the continued development and management of the distressed debt and loan portfolio SCSF. Previously, Satzberg served as senior vice president of Jeffries & Company, Los Angeles. Prior to Jeffries, he serves as a portfolio manager with 1838 Investment Advisors and as a manager with Coppers & Lybrand. Sun Capital specialises in LBOs and investments in market-leading companies.
Nordic venture capital investor Sunstone Capital has hired Pekka Vartiainen as a venture partner in the firm. Previously,Vartiainen served as a partner and chairman of Iqua, and before that was head of Nokia Mobile Phones America. He began his career with Nokia Cellular Systems. Based in Copenhagen, Sunstone Capital focuses on developing and expanding early stage life sciences and technology companies. The firm recently led a Series B funding of semiconductor company IPtronics.
Tennenbaum Capital Partners has hired Marvin Barth as chief investment strategist. Barth was previously chief economist for international affairs at the US Department of Treasury. Prior to that, he served as Citigroup's global currency economist and had numerous positions on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. California-based Tennenbaum Capital Partners investment strategy currently manages approximately $7bn in assets.
WL Ross & Co, a subsidiary of Invesco, has appointed Harvey L Tepner to principal. Tepner started his Wall Street career at Rothschild and subsequently served as an officer in the corporate finance department of Dillon Read and Loeb Partners. He was most recently a partner at Compass Advisers. Atlanta-based Invesco recently announced the closing of the $4bn WL Ross Recovery Fund IV.
Private equity firm Actis has appointed Chris Coles as senior consultant. In his new role, he will look to enhance the firm's existing risk management capabilities, assist with larger deal sourcing and debt financing and provide ongoing portfolio management support. Coles joins Actis from Barclays Capital where he was the head of European leveraged finance. Prior to Barclays, he worked for SG Warbug and was group treasurer of WPP Group. He started his career in US commercial banking. Actis recently sold their stake in The Palms Mall, a shopping centre development in Nigeria.
The European Investment Fund has appointed Richard Pelly as CEO and Jean-Marie Magnette as deputy chief executive. Pelly succeeds Francis Carpenter, whose term of office ended in February. Pelly was most recently managing director at Pall Mall Capital. Previously, he was managing director of structured asset finance at Lloyds TSB Bank. Magnette began his career as chargé d'affaires at the Banque Générale du Luxembourg. He has worked at the European Commission since 1982. He was appointed alternate director in 2006, representing the European Commission on the EIF board of directors. EIF is a fund of funds investing in venture, notably in early stage high tech funds that support SMEs and small/mid-caps companies. EIF also provides guarantees to banks and guarantee schemes for SMEs.
The Brazilian venture capital and private equity association ABVCAP has appointed Luiz Eugenio Figueiredo as its chairman for the 2008-2010 period. He has succeeded Marcus Regueira of FIR Capital. Patrice Etlin and Sidney Chameh, from Advent and DGF, respectively, were appointed as vice chairmen. Figueiredo has been a partner and investment management director of Rio Bravo since the company's founding in 2000. Previously, he served as an officer in Banco Pactual's corporate finance group where he specialised in financial institutions. Prior to Banco Pactual, he worked as a sell side investment analyst at Unibanco and at Price Waterhouse. ABVCAP focuses on encouraging long-term investments in the Brazilian economy.
John Coyle, formerly global head of JP Morgan Securities' Financial Sponsor Group, has joined Permira as a partner and co-head of the New York office. Coyle will be responsible for running the office together with Tom Lister, the co-managing partner of Permira and co-head of the New York office. Coyle joined JPMorgan in 1988 and held various investment banking positions during his tenure. In 1998, he moved to London to found JPMorgan's sponsor coverage effort and ultimately build the pre-eminent sponsor franchise in Europe.
Zug, Switzerland-headquartered alternative asset manager Partners Group has opened an office in Sydney. Former Zurich Financial Services head of investment sales Martin Scott has been appointed to the new office. Scott will be joined by Mike Siebert, who has been based in Partners Group's Singapore office since 2004. Partners Group also has offices in San Francisco, New York, London, Guernsey, Singapore and Tokyo. The firm manages private equity, private debt, private real estate, listed alternative investment, hedge fund and alternative beta strategies programmes.
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