Legalist, a litigation finance firm, has named Sean Liu as chief financial officer. Liu is the former investment director at SoftBank's Vision Fund.
San Francisco and Berlin-based e.ventures has named Patrick Reilly as global chief financial officer. Previously, Reilly was CFO at TCV.
Bynder said Oct. 17 that Bert van der Zwan has joined the company as CEO. He succeeds current CEO and founder Chris Hall, who will join the Bynder Supervisory Board as of Nov. 1. Van der Zwan, a software veteran, is currently CEO of Onguard. Bynder is backed by Insight Venture Partners.
Sverica Capital Management said Oct. 17 that Ryan Harstad and Gregg Osenkowski were promoted to partner effective immediately.
KKR said Oct. 16 that it named new leadership for its private equity businesses. Pete Stavros and Nate Taylor were promoted to co-lead the private equity business in America, while Mattia Caprioli and Philipp Freise will co-lead the private equity business in Europe. In Asia-Pacific, Hiro Hirano and Ashish Shastry will co-lead that business.
The Riverside Company has created a flavor and specialty ingredient industry advisory board. The board will focus on middle-market flavor and ingredient companies in the global food and beverage supply chain.
New York City-based Togetherwork, a provider of group management software and payments, has named Neal Keltz and Ken McDonald as general managers of business units and Chester Ritchie as senior vice president of payments. Togetherwork was backed by GI Partners.
Contentful, an enterprise headless CMS provider, has expanded its senior management team with three new hires. Joining the company are Saood Shah as vice president of customer success; Kevin Zellmer as vice president of partnerships; and Benjamin Keyser as vice president of product. Contentful's backers include Sapphire Ventures.
In one of their more comical endeavors, Kramer and Newman of Seinfeld fame decide one day to reverse the peepholes on their apartment doors, allowing anyone who so chooses to have a clear look inside. Kramer boldly proclaims, “If somebody wants to help themselves to an eyeful, we say ‘enjoy the show!’” If only it […]
Elsewhere Partners has named Josh Stephens as chief technology officer. Stephens has been an adviser to the growth-stage venture firm since 2015.