The Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan has appointed Neil Petroff to succeed Bob Bertram as its chief investment officer and executive vice-president of investments.

Two members of the senior team at Hotbed have announced their departures from the business.

Swedish early-stage venture firm Creandum has promoted Fredrik Cassel to partner.

Kohlberg Kravis Roberts has appointed Ludo Bammens as director of European corporate affairs and brought in Sanjay Nayar to run its operations in India.

CVC Capital Partners has appointed Charles-Henri Filippi as a senior adviser in France.

Foresight Group has opened an Italian office to dedicate resources to its new European solar fund.

RJD Partners has appointed turnaround specialist Paul Woodley as a consultant.

LDC has appointed Martin Rowland as an investment director.

The Carlyle Group has hired Christopher Dodds as a senior adviser to its global financial services group.

Duke Street has hired Miles Cresswell-Turner as a partner specialising in financial services.

Andrea Davi has been appointed as a partner at UK-based cleantech investor Amplio Partners.

Accountancy and advisory firm PKF has appointed Andrew Lock as a director.

Advent International has appointed Paolo Cantarella as an operating partner with a focus on investment opportunities in the industrial sector.

Braveheart has appointed Richard Nunneley as a director of marketing, a position the firm has created to help fulfil its growth strategy outside Scotland.

Foresight Group has appointed Sonia Powar as an investment director in its management buyout team.

Close Brothers has appointed Luke MacKenzie as a director in its European restructuring and debt advisory group.

The two Leeds-based staff leaving Octopus Private Equity have been revealed.

Nova Capital Management has appointed David Carman to its board.

Baird has appointed Steve Holt as a director.

Privately owned Dutch bank Rabobank has appointed Ronil Sujan as managing director and head of mergers & acquisitions and corporate advisory for the Asia Pacific region, with immediate effect.

CMS Derks Star Busmann has hired Bauke Falkena and Eduard Scheenstra.

Kohlberg Kravis Roberts has appointed Jesús Olmos Clavijo as a managing director and head of infrastructure in Europe.

Gamma Capital Partners has appointed clean technology expert and entrepreneur Jürgen Wahl as a venture partner.

EVCA has appointed Fabio Brunelli as the new chairman of its tax and legal committee.

Octopus Investments has closed its satellite office in Leeds, resulting in the loss of four staff.

Truffle Capital has appointed Gwen Chapman as chief financial officer.

Permira has appointed James Fraser as head of financial services.

Close Brothers has opened a new office in Zurich, Switzerland, and appointed former BNP Paribas banker Jürg Glesti as managing director of the operation.

UK development finance institution CDC Group, a state-owned emerging markets fund of funds business, has appointed Richard Gillingwater as its chairman.

Deloitte has appointed Tim Armstrong, formerly of Morgan Stanley, as a director, and Floris Hovingh, previously of HBOS, as an associate director.

Pomona Capital has appointed three senior professionals to its global team.

HgCapital has promoted Justin von Simson to partner in its Munich office.

TowerBrook Capital Partners has appointed automotive sector experts Gerd Siekmann and Olivier Roux as advisers to the firm.

LDC has appointed Daniel Sasaki as a director in its London office

Thomas Kunder has been appointed as chief financial officer of listed private equity company Heliad.

Cognetas has appointed David Pusinelli as a senior adviser focusing on financial services, based in London.

Avida Group, the German mid-market private equity firm, has been forced to rebrand as a result of trademark issues.

Clydesdale Bank has expanded its corporate and structured finance team in London with the appointment of Andy Oates as a director.

Bear Stearns Merchant Banking, the private equity arm of the collapsed investment bank, is set to spin out at the start of November.

Zurich-based private equity firm Zurmont Madison Management has appointed Daniel Anliker as an investment director.

Kirkland & Ellis has expanded its European restructuring group with three appointments.

Apax Partners is to open an office in Shanghai later this year and a second office in Beijing in 2009.

EQT has opened an office in Poland, its first in Central and Eastern Europe, and hired local telecoms veteran Piotr Czapski to lead the team.

European Capital has seen the departure of two senior staff, with Julian Masters and Johannes Huttunen leaving the firm.

Pinsent Masons has appointed Gregg Davison, a senior partner in Hammonds’ corporate finance and strategy department, to its private equity team.

Matthew Layton is to become global head of Clifford Chance’s corporate practice from November 2008.

EVCA’s venture capital platform chairman Patrick Sheehan has been appointed by the association to head up a team of prominent venture capitalists formed to investigate and
improve the reporting of European VC houses’ performance.

CAM Private Equity has bolstered its sales team with the addition of Andrés Ebhardt as a partner.

Braveheart Investment Group has appointed Colin Grant as chief financial officer

Impax Group, a specialist environmental investment company, has appointed Charlie Ridge as chief operating officer.

Matteo Carlotti, head of Italian operations at Argos Soditic, is to leave the firm following strategic disagreements relating to the scope of the firm’s future operations in the Italian private equity market.

Permira has appointed former international vice chairman of KPMG Hiroaki Yoshihara as a senior adviser.

Barclays Private Equity has appointed Steven Whitehead as an investment manager in its Manchester team.

Following the recent appointment of associate director Mark Tooth, Baker Tilly has appointed Adam Fraser-Harris as a director in its southern region corporate finance team.

Andrew Hartley has stepped down from his role as managing director of August Equity after 13 years with the firm.

Dubai International Capital has made two senior hires to its private equity team. Eric Kump joins as managing director from Merrill Lynch Global Private Equity, while Marc Hollander joins as finance director from Investor AB. Both will report to Sylvain Denis.

Endless has appointed Lucia Villamor as an investment executive in its Leeds office.

Roger Kelly, formerly a research adviser to the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee, has joined the BVCA as chief economist.

Apax Partners has appointed Bernard Bourigeaud as a senior adviser in France.

Foresight has made two further appointments to its environmental team, bringing on board Mike Rand as investment director and Tom Thorp as investment manager.

Arcapita has hired John O’Donoghue as a director in its London office.

Claret Capital has recruited Dermot Hanley and Yuki Narula to its new private equity funds team.

Inflexion Private Equity has hired LDC’s Richard Swann as an investment director.

Phoenix Equity Partners has appointed Clarissa Beresford as an investment manager.

Sovereign Capital has appointed Jon Edington as assistant director to its portfolio development team.

Life Sciences Partners has appointed Geraldine O’Keeffe as a senior investment manager.

Alpha Associates, the Zurich-based private equity fund of funds manager has appointed Kurt Geiger as a special adviser and chairman of its advisory board

Investcorp has appointed James Tanner as its head of placement and relationship management, and as a member of its management committee, based in Bahrain.

Lyceum Capital has appointed Simon Hitchcock, a director of rival firm Sovereign Capital, as a partner. He will join Lyceum in March 2009 at the end of his notice period.

Edward Liddy, a partner at Clayton Dubilier & Rice, has been hired by the US government to run troubled insurance company American International Group.

Vision Capital has strengthened its investment team with the appointments of Lorenzo Russo as partner and Daryl Cohen as associate.

Electra Partners has appointed Monique Dumas as investor relations and corporate communications partner

Dow Schofield Watts has established a corporate debt advisory business, which will be led by new partners Joanne Dodd and Paula Jones.

Veronis Suhler Stevenson has made two new additions to its European investment team.

Providence Equity Partners has appointed Sean Tong as managing director in the firm’s Hong Kong office.

Palamon Capital Partners has appointed Peter Currie to its board of advisers.

Directorbank, the UK executive search agency, has ramped up its global growth plans with the appointment of Daniela Romano as international account director.

Key Capital Partners has increased its national footprint, launching an office in Birmingham.

HarbourVest has promoted Brett Gordon, Alex Rogers and John Toomey to managing directors.

Investment firm WP Carey has appointed Tom Quigley as managing director of its London subsidiary.

Kohlberg Kravis Roberts has appointed Makram Azar as managing director and head of the Middle East and North Africa.

Close Brothers has made two appointments to its recently established Manchester office.

Liam Camburn has joined Deloitte’s private equity transaction services team as a director.

Serge Raicher has taken over as chairman of the European Venture Philanthropy Association.

Turnaround specialist Thesan Capital has appointed four new executives.

Indigo Capital has appointed Monique Deloire as partner.

CapMan has promoted Jan Mattlin to partner and Sebastian Schauman to investment manager within the firm’s buyout team.

The California Public Employees’ Retirement System has appointed Randall Mullan as senior portfolio manager for infrastructure investments and promoted Dan Bienvenue to Senior Portfolio Manager, Global Equity.

Permira has appointed David Williams as a senior adviser.

Ross Butler has joined EVCA as head of communications. 

Private equity consultant PCG Asset Management has appointed Jean-Noel Odier
as managing director.

Quadrangle Group has opened an office in Hong Kong, to be headed by Edward Sippel.

Greenpark Capital has appointed Robert Savage as an investment director based in London.

American Capital has opened an office in Hong Kong – its first in Asia.

Graham Dewhirst has been appointed chairman of Spirit Capital Partners, a spin-out from Aberdeen Asset Management.

Charles Allen, former chief executive of ITV, has been appointed as a senior adviser to the private equity arm of Goldman Sachs.

Summit Partners has appointed four vice-presidents to its offices in London and Boston.

DFJ Esprit has appointed William Reeve as a venture partner.

Darwin Private Equity has expanded its investment team with the appointment of Katie Beck

David Wardrop and Tristan Craddock have joined Rutland Partners as investment manager and investment executive respectively.

Jefferies International has appointed 25 ex-Bear Stearns staff to its global equities business.

LDC has added to its team in Scotland, recruiting Steven Gray. Gray will be based in Aberdeen.

3i’s deputy finance director Julia Wilson has been appointed to the board of the firm and made finance director designate.

Stephen Campe has been appointed as president of Investor Growth Capital, the wholly-owned venture capital arm of Investor AB, following the retirement of current president Henry Gooss.

Alvarez & Marsal has bolstered its team in Europe, the Middle East and India with new appointments.

HSBC has hired Basil Sakellis as an investment manager. He joins from European Capital, where he worked in the UK buyout team.

Clearwater Corporate Finance has appointed financier Graham Hallworth, a former partner in private equity firm Alchemy, as its non-executive chairman.

Ivan Brockman has joined the Blackstone Group as a senior managing director in the firm’s corporate advisory business.

Cinven has hired Joseph Wan as a partner and Richard Cheung as a principal in its Hong Kong office.

Dunedin has appointed Simon Rowan as an analyst.

Pantheon has made three appointments to its investment team in Hong Kong.

Burdale Financial has appointed a new management committee.

Tom Quigley has been appointed managing director of WP Carey & Co, the UK arm of the investment firm.

Alliance Trust Equity Partners, the private equity arm of Alliance Trust, has appointed Layla Fear as investment manager.

TVM Capital has promoted Steffen Schuster to general partner.

Ambient Sound Investments has hired Margus Uudam, the former CEO of the electricity distribution arm of Estonia’s energy utility, to head its private equity investments.

Heiner Braun, a private equity and M&A specialist and partner in the corporate practice of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, is to relocate from Frankfurt to the firm’s Shanghai office

Bear Stearns Private Equity, the London-listed buyout arm of the US investment bank, is to be renamed JPMorgan Private Equity (JPEL).

BDO Stoy Hayward has appointed Neil McDaid as a debt advisory director in its corporate finance team.

CVC Capital Partners has established a global financial institutions sector team, seeking to take advantage of volatility and depressed valuations in the financial services industry.

Bridgepoint has appointed Charles Barter, former head of private equity at UK law firm Travers Smith, as its general counsel.

HSBC Private Equity has appointed two new members to its investment team, bringing in Grant O’Neill as an investment manager and Helen Posner as an associate.

Richard Munton, a co-founder of Cinven, has retired after nearly 30 years with the firm but will continue to be listed as a partner working a few days a month.

Hans-Georg Köglmayr, managing director and founder of Leonardo Venture Capital, has resigned from his post for health reasons.

EVCA has appointed eleven members to its board of directors, replacing current members who have either reached the end of their tenure or are stepping down.

Louis Gerstner, chairman of the Carlyle Group, has announced his decision to retire from the firm.

Close Brothers has appointed Dan Sheahan as a director in its Manchester office.

Sovereign Capital has appointed Sarah Pratt as a researcher, bringing its investment team to 20.

Petteri Änkilä, chief executive of Finnish private equity firm Amanda Capital, is to step down from his role. Chief financial officer Petter Hoffström will serve as acting chief executive.

Finance Wales has appointed Ian Johnson, the former chief executive of Biotrace International, as chairman.

Aurora Russia has appointed Dan Collinson Koch as a non-executive director.

David Inman is to replace Mauro Biagioni as financial controller at NVM Private Equity

GIMV has appointed Hansjörg Sage as a partner.

The Blackstone Group has created a practice for investments in the clean technology sector.

LDC has promoted Jon Andrew to its board as chief operating officer following the appointment of previous incumbent Candida Morley as chief portfolio officer.

Kohlberg Kravis Roberts has hired William Sonneborn to develop its asset management business.

Investec has appointed Gareth Taylor as a director in its corporate finance division and Matthew Wesley as an associate director in debt advisory.

Inflexion Private Equity has appointed two new members to its investment team.

DLJ Merchant Banking Partners, Credit Suisse’s private equity arm, has appointed Nicole Arnaboldi as chairman following the retirement of Steven Rattner.

BDO Stoy Hayward has expanded its corporate finance team with the appointment of four partners: Jamie Austin, Christopher Clark, Sam Surrey and Jason Whitworth.

Manchester-based private equity firm Infinity has opened a London office.

Ernst & Young has appointed Jason Talbot to its Manchester-based mergers and acquisitions team.

The Blackstone Group has opened a new office in Beijing, to be headed by Shan Fu.

Andrew Wall and Peter Barrand have joined HMT Corporate Finance’s Thames Valley team as partner and director respectively.

Haarmann has hired Michael Graf as partner in the firm’s Frankfurt-based tax practice, bringing the team up to seven members.

Jean Lemierre is to join the BNP Paribas Group as senior adviser to the chairman.

Initiative & Finance Gestion has promoted Jean-Michel Laveu and Arnaud Mendelsohn to associate directors.

Nova Capital Management has promoted Kathryn Jones and john llewellyn to associate partners.

Private Equity Partners has opened an office in Mumbai to support the development of portfolio companies in Asia.

Kate Goodall – Capital Dynamics’ vice-president and founder of the Private Equity Investor Relations Association – has left the firm to join SVG Capital’s investor relations
team.

The Royal Bank of Scotland has promoted Jochen Koenig to head of sponsor leveraged finance in Europe.

Julian Tunnicliffe has joined mid-market investment bank Lincoln International as a managing director specialising in industrials M&A.

Michael Klein, one of Citigroup’s most senior executives, has become the latest high-profile investment bank departure.

Jonathan Heathcote has joined Palamon Capital Partners as a partner in the firm’s London office.

JC Flowers has appointed David Morgan as an operating partner and chairman of the firm’s Australian operations.

SL Capital Partners, the private equity arm of Standard Life Investments, has hired Jamie Ebersole as a senior investment director for North America.

Ratos executive vice-president Thomas Mossberg is to retire from the firm. Mossberg, who has held the position since 1988, will remain with the firm as a senior adviser on a part-time basis.

CVC Capital Partners has established an office in Beijing, to be headed by Zhu Wei, who
has joined the firm as a managing director.

Noble Group has opened a US subsidiary, Noble Corporate Advisory, in Houston, Texas.

Investment bank Moelis & Co has hired veteran private equity executive Greg Share to expand its buyouts practice.

Russell Read, chief investment officer at the California Public Employees’ Retirement System, has quit the pension fund after less than two years in the job.

Former BVCA chief executive Peter Linthwaite has joined CT Investment Partners as managing partner.

LGV Capital chief executive Adrian Johnson is to leave the firm.

Kenneth Mehlman has been appointed managing director and head of global affairs at Kohlberg Kravis Roberts.

Robin Henshall is to head European Islamic Investment Bank’s new private equity and corporate advisory team in London.

Veteran investment banker David Verey has left the Blackstone Group, which he joined in 2003 as a senior adviser in Europe.

The Blackstone Group has appointed Kemal Kaya as a senior adviser in the firm’s Turkey office.

Octopus Ventures has appointed Alliott Cole as an investment manager.

Partners Group has opened an office in Luxembourg to be headed by Jerry Ludig.

BNP Paribas Private Equity has appointed Daphné Dussauge as head of corporate development.

Butler Capital Partners has appointed two new directors to its team.

TowerBrook Capital Partners has recruited John Sinik as a managing director in London.

Lovells’ Italian head of private equity is poised to leave the firm to join Simmons & Simmons in Milan.

Randy Parker has been appointed as a principal at HarbourVest Partners.

Private Advisors has appointed three managing directors to its London office.

Glitnir Total Capital has expanded its London team with the appointments of Paul Brown and Emily Bushby as investment managers.

Lorne Somerville has joined CVC Capital Partners’ London office as head of the firm’s TMT investment activities.

Tony Horspool has joined Weil Gotshal & Manges as a partner in the global restructuring group.

Kevin Dunn has been appointed as 3i’s general counsel and company secretary, following Tony Brierley’s retirement.

Wanching Ang, chief executive of Allianz Private Equity Partners, has resigned from
her position at the firm

HIG Capital has made two turnaround appointments to its recently formed European team.

Vestar Capital Partners has expanded its presence in Europe, opening an office in Germany.

Gresham Private Equity has appointed James Slipper as a partner in its investment team.

DLA Piper’s joint head of private equity is leaving the firm to head Hill Dickinson’s Manchester corporate practice.

Morgan Stanley has recruited Michael Hehn and Eric Fry as managing directors of Morgan Stanley Private Equity,

Sara Halbard, senior fund manager at Intermediate Capital Group’s fund management subsidiary ICML, is to retire from the firm in June 2008.

Foresight Group has appointed Russell Healey and James Livingston as portfolio managers.

Purvi Sapre has joined Octopus Investments’ private equity team as an investment manager.

Baird Capital Partners Europe has promoted Andrew Ferguson to managing director, Dennis Hall to director and Simon Coote to manager.

SVG Advisers has appointed two directors to its London team.

Panu Routila is to succeed Jan Inborr as president and chief executive of Ahlström Capital.

New Venture Partners has recruited David Tennenhouse to head its new Silicon Valley
office.

Pantheon has recruited Dennis McCrary as a partner in its global investment team.

Tim Bunting (pictured), a former vice-chairman of Goldman Sachs, has joined Balderton Capital as a partner.

The BVCA has appointed Simon Walker as its new chief executive with effect from the beginning of November.

SVG Advisors has recruited three new members to its private equity fund selection team.

Duke Street Capital has appointed Thierry Paternot as operating partner in its Paris office.

Sovereign Capital has recruited Tim Whittard from Gresham

HgCapital has made two appointments and two promotions to its renewable energy team.

Livingstone Partners has promoted Alex Sheffield, Richard Fetterman and Phillip McCreanor to partners.

Gerrit Zalm, former deputy prime minister and minister of finance in the Netherlands, is joining Permira as an adviser.

After 15 years as head of investor relations at ECI, Janet Brooks has left the firm to join placement agent Monument Group’s London office

AIG Capital Partners has appointed Serkan Elden as managing director in charge of the firm’s activities in Turkey and the surrounding areas.

Norwegian energy investor HitecVision has recruited Atle Eide as a partner based in its Stavanger office.

Simon Palley has resigned from BC Partners and will leave the firm at the end of September.

Riverstone Holdings has appointed BP veteran Ralph Alexander as a managing director at the firm’s New York office.

David Marchick will join The Carlyle Group as a managing director and global head of regulatory affairs based in the Washington DC office.

Lord Browne, the former chief executive of BP, has taken up a permanent role at specialist US energy investor Riverstone Holdings.

3i’s co-head of Asia, Jamie Paton, has resigned after 20 years at the firm.

3i has also strengthened its healthcare team with the appointment of Peter Chambré as industrialist in residence.

Maurice Moses has joined AlixPartners from Alvarez & Marsal.

BerchWood Partners has recruited Robert Moreland as director

Stephen Aulsebrook is to become the new chief executive at Close Brothers Corporate Finance

The Blackstone Group has hired Goldman Sachs media relations veteran Peter Rose

The Carlyle Group has launched a team in Central and Eastern Europe

Conor Venture Partners has recruited Jari Mieskonen.

Lars Eriksson has joined Riverside and will be based in Stockholm.

Helmut Schühsler (pictured), managing partner of TVM Capital, has been elected as chairman of EVCA.

NBGI Private Equity has recruited former Octopus Asset Managers director Joseph Bergin as a director.

E-Synergy has recruited Sam Richardson as an investment director.

Peter Linthwaite has resigned as chief executive of the BVCA with immediate effect.

Activa Capital has recruited Julien Di Marco as an investment analyst.