The Carlyle Group has named Managing Director Brian Bernasek as Head of the Global Industrial and Transportation team, and Managing Director Stephen Wise as Co-Head of the Global Healthcare team, with immediate effect.
Mergence Investment Managers has appointed Kasief Isaacs as portfolio manager responsible for infrastructure equity investments, in a move set to significantly boost the house’s existing specialization in infrastructure and impact investing.
Global Environment Fund (GEF) has appointed Koome Imathiu as Managing Director of its Africa investment team.
Emerging Capital Partners has appointed Oluwaseyi Owodunni as Managing Director of its Nigeria office, based in Lagos.
Emerging Capital Partners has appointed its Director, Nana Afoah Appiah-Korang to the board of directors for the Ghana Infrastructure Investment Fund (GIIF).
Standard Chartered has appointed William Thomas Winters to the Board as Group Chief Executive.
Christiane Laibach has assumed office as member of the Management Board of DEG - Deutsche Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH, with effect from February 15, 2015.
CDC, the UK’s development finance institution, has appointed Imoni Akpofure as a Regional Director for Africa based in Lagos, Nigeria.
The founder of the South African financial services firm Cadiz Group, Frank Cadiz, has resigned as head of the firm’s asset management unit.
The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) has hired Paul Mouchakkaa as CalPERS' Senior Investment Officer (SIO) for real assets.
Aventicum Capital Management has appointed Habib Oueijan as the Head of Aventicum MENA & Frontier Markets based in Doha and operating under Aventicum Capital Management (Qatar).
EMPEA has elected Robert Petty, Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Clearwater Capital Partners, as the next Chairman of the association.
Scipion Capital, an international commodity trade finance investment manager, has announced the appointment of a new high level Advisory Council.
Old Mutual has announced that Vassi Naidoo will join its Board as a non-executive director with effect from 1 May 2015.
