People

The California-based firm has expanded its investment and business development capacities as Fund III, which closed in December, prepares to deploy capital this spring.

The New York-based firm has promoted four principals to partner, following an operating team expansion throughout 2016.

The firm’s new location will be led by a managing director who has been with the firm since it opened its doors 17 years ago.

Summit Partners has hired David Schiller to lead its institutional relationship management efforts.

TA Associates, ECI Partners, Primary Capital and Foresight have started the year by promoting staff across the globe.

The Florida-based firm, which launched in April, brought Chris Paldino of HIG Capital to join founding managing partner John Caple and founding partner David Block.

F Ross Johnson was chief executive officer of RJR Nabisco in the 1980s, when the firm was the subject of a vicious private equity bidding war chronicled in the book Barbarians at the Gate.

The private fund management firm made its chief financial officer a partner in its 2016 year-end promotions round.

Secondaries firms dominated PEI’s most-read people move stories for the year.

After 10 years at Washington University of St. Louis, Kimberly Walker is leaving the $7.7bn endowment, which has $1.4bn in private equity.