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Weekly People Roundup: 21 May 200821/05/2008. 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.
Private investment firm Windjammer Capital Investors has hired Omar Simmons as a director. The firm has also promoted Matthew Anderson and Caleb Clark to vice president. Simmons joined Windjammer in March 2008 from Reliant Equity Investors. Prior to Reliant, he was a senior associate at McCown De Leeuw & Co. He also has experience at Summit Partners as an associate and at Littlejohn & Co. as a summer associate. Simmons also worked at Marakon Associates, Physicians Quality Care, and Lotus Development. Matt Anderson joined Windjammer in October, 2005 out of General Electric's Corporate Finance Group. Caleb Clark joined Windjammer in June, 2006. WCI manages institutional funds totaling over $1.2bn of capital and is currently investing its latest fund, which closed in 2006 on $575m.
European mezzanine investor Indigo Capital has promoted Martin Hook to partner, having joined the firm in 1995. He will continue to focus on the firm's investment activities in both the UK and the Nordic region. The firm has also hired Burkhard Wangenheim to join Indigo Capital's London-based team from M-Cap in Germany. Guillaume Claire has also joined Indigo Capital from JP Morgan's London office. The firm's current fund, Indigo Capital V, closed in 2007 on €550m.
European private equity firm PAI partners has appointed Lionel Zinsou as a member of the executive committee. He joins from Rothschild & Cie where he has been a general partner since 1997 and was head of the consumer products group, head of Middle East and Africa and a member of the global investment bank committee. During his time at Rothschild & Cie, Lionel advised PAI on numerous transactions, including Panzani, Amora Maille, William Saurin, Lustucru, United Biscuits, Yoplait and Vivarte. PAI has offices in Paris, London, Madrid, Milan, Munich and Luxembourg. The firm manages and advises buy-out funds totalling over €11bn.
Alfa Capital Partners has hired Alexander Bezougly, Vadim Pavlus and Pavel Alimov to the investment team of the Alfa Private Equity Fund. Bezougly joins as managing director alongside Vladislav Mamoulkine and John Quinn. Pavlus joins as vice president and Alimov joins as investment manager. Prior to Alfa, Bezugly worked as head of private equity at RIT Capital Partners. Pavlus joins from Citigroup in London where he worked in the financial entrepreneurs group. Alimov joins from the investment banking division of Goldman Sachs in London and Moscow advising Russian. ACP advises funds that invest in companies and real estate in Russia, Ukraine and in the Commonwealth of Independent States.
Musculoskeletal sector-focused private equity firm HealthpointCapital has appointed Dr Hansen A Yuan to its scientific advisory board. Dr Yuan currently serves as professor emeritus, Department of Orthopaedic and Neurological Surgery at the SUNY Health Science Center. He is also a charter member and current president of the Spine Arthroplasty Society and is a member of numerous professional societies including the North American Spine Society and the Orthopaedic Research Society. HealthpointCapital has $650m of capital under management.
Lower mid-market private equity firm Huron Capital Partners has hired Gretchen Perkins as vice president, business development. Perkins will be responsible for driving the firm's efforts to originate investment opportunities as an equity sponsor for MBOs and recapitalisations for new platform investments and also add-on acquisitions for existing market strategies. Prior to Huron, Perkins was vice president, business development for Long Point Capital. She has also held senior business development positions at consulting and market research firm IRN, Fleet Capital Corporation and GE Capital Corporation. Huron Capital targets investments of between $10m and $50m in MBOs, growth initiatives, recapitalisations and corporate spin-offs
Independent investment management firm Drum Capital Management, has appointed Amber Tencic as director of finance. She joins from investment management firm Pequot Capital Management, where she was senior vice president. Prior to Pequot, she worked as a senior accountant at Goldstein, Golub, Kessler & Co., where she provided tax and audit services for a hedge fund client base. Drum Capital focuses on creating and actively managing sector-focused fund of funds in distressed debt, turnaround, and workout opportunities.
Macquarie Funds Management has appointed Kurt Faulhaber as vice president, Macquarie Funds Management (USA). In his new role, Faulhaber will assist in the management of Macquarie's cleantech private equity portfolios. Faulhaber joins Macquarie from Austin Clean Energy Incubator, which was established by the US Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory. There he focused on identifying cleantech ventures and assisting companies with their strategy, launch and growth. Prior to the CEI, he worked in the semiconductor industry with Teradyne. Other new members to join the Funds Management Group include US-based analyst Andrew Schmitz, Australian-based senior analyst Jenny Weinstock, and Australian-based analyst Daniel Levan.
Permira has appointed former CEO of Telecom Italia Riccardo Ruggiero as a senior adviser. In his new role Ruggiero will support Permira in identifying investment opportunities across a number of sectors with a specific focus on the technology, media and telecommunications industry (TMT). He will also advise the firm on its existing portfolio companies in that sector. Most recently, Ruggiero was CEO of Telecom Italia, where he was responsible for managing the expansion of the company's fixed and mobile networks and also developing its broadband and digital media offering worldwide. Last month, the firm agreed to sell German mobile service provider debitel in a deal valued at €1.63bn.
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