Iris Dorbian
In Second Opinion, Sprint will reportedly slash 2,500 jobs in a $2.5 billion restructuring, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg returns to work after a two-month paternity leave and Bernie Sanders gets his own ice cream flavor courtesy of Ben & Jerry's.
Harbert Management Corp has promoted Sonja Keeton to executive vice president and chief financial officer; Travis Pritchett to vice president and senior managing director of global real estate strategies; Jerry Phillips to vice president and director of taxation; and Raymond Harbert Jr. to vice president of finance and administration. All of these promotions became effective January 1.
This week's jobs include a director of restructuring at Duff & Phelps. Also up for grabs are associate positions at Fremont Private Holdings and Antares Capital.
Proterra Investment Partners, a natural resources-focused investment advisor and private equity fund manager, has spun off from Cargill subsidiary Black River Asset Management. Proterra will now operate as a standalone company managing more than $2.1 billion assets.
AOL has agreed to buy AlephD, a programmatic platform focused on publisher analytics and price floor optimization, the former announced in a blog post on its site. No financial terms were disclosed. According to Crunchbase, AlephD's investors include A Plus Finance and Partech Ventures.
Blackford Capital has made an undisclosed investment in Quality Aluminum Products. Based in Hastings, Michigan, Quality is a maker of of residential exterior aluminum products.
Seattle-based PushSpring, a provider of mobile app audience data and analytics, has hired Brad Dobbs as director of publisher and platform partnerships. Previously, Dobbs worked at Amazon where he served as manager of mobile games user acquisition. PushSpring's backers include Trilogy Equity Partners.
Bain Capital plans a stock market listing for French furniture and interior decoration company Maisons du Monde, newsletter La Lettre de l'Expansion reported on Monday
JMI Equity had made an undisclosed investment in CoreHR, an Ireland-based provider of human capital management and payroll software. PwC's London-based tech corporate finance team served as financial advisor to CoreHR.
Actis has sold Guatemala-based electricity network Energuate to IC Power. The price of the transaction was $265 million.