To pastures new: Asia PE people moves
A selection of the transfers, promotions, arrivals and departures in Asia's private equity community in 2012
LIMITED PARTNERS
Abu Dhabi Investment Authority:ColmLanigan joins as head of principal investments in its private equities department; Axa PE COO Christophe Florin also joins as head of emerging markets private equity.
AlpInvest Partners: Neal Costello relocates to Hong Kong from New York to lead secondary activities in Asia.
Asia Alternatives: Moogwi Kim and Alexa Zhang leave for academia and investment consultancy Wilshire Private Markets, respectively.
BlackRock: Joseph Pacini is hired from J.P. Morgan to be the head of the alternative investors strategy group, Asia Pacific ex-Japan; Philip Hildebrand joins as vice chairman for Asia Pacific and EMA; Andrew Landman becomes head of alternatives for Australia.
Canada Pension Plan Investment Board: Former Goldman Sachs executive Mark Machin becomes Asia president.
CDC: AnubhaShrivastava quits as managing director for Asia; SrinivasanNagarajan is hired from Actis as India-based regional director.
China Investment Corp: James Ieong, Daniel Hu and European PE head Collin Lau leave the group.
Future Fund: David Gonski leaves his role as chairman of the Australian Stock Exchange to become CEO.
Greenpark Capital: Daniel Green is promoted to CIO; Chin ChinTeoh becomes managing director of the firm's Hong Kong office.
HarbourVest Partners: Sally Shen is appointed head of mainland China operations in the newly-opened Beijing office; Tim Flower is promoted to to principal, while Kelvin Yap and Maggie Chan become vice presidents.
Korea Investment Corp: Don Lee Dong-ik, former head of investments at PE firm STIC Investments, becomes CIO.
Overseas Private Investment Corporation: Jay Koh resigns as head of investment funds and chief investment strategist to join Siguler Guff.
Pantheon: Hong Kong-based Brian Lim is promoted to partner.
Partners Group: Cyrus Driver joins as managing director with a focus on direct investment in India; Kelvin Chan steps down as managing director; Kelvin Yu is hired from Sequoia Capital.
Squadron Capital: Boris Bong and AnandPrasana leave for J.P. Morgan's private equity group and Morgan Creek's Shanghai office, respectively.
StepStone: Mu-shin Kim and Andy Tsai join as managing directors in Beijing.
Temasek Holdings: Lee ThengKiat is appointed general counsel and co-president; PromeetGhosh becomes managing director in India.
GENERAL PARTNERS
Actis Capital: Danny Koh and Max Lin are hired as directors, based in Singapore and Beijing, respectively; Gary Addison resigns as head of the Singapore office.
Aureos Capital: Tom Speechley, a senior partner at Abraaj Capital, is named CEO.
Baring Private Equity Partners India: AmitChander and KeshavMisra are promoted to partner.
The Blackstone Group: Yi Luo is hired from The Carlyle Group as a senior managing director in Shanghai; Ed Huang joins from Morgan Stanley Private Equity Asia as a managing director in Hong Kong; James Carnegie, who previously worked at Archer Capital, joins as a senior advisor based in Sydney.
The Carlyle Group: Kazuhiro Yamada becomes co-head of Japan, replacing Masao Hirano who is leaving the firm; AnandBalasubrahmanyan resigns as head of Southeast Asia and joins CIMB Group; NeerajBharadwaj is hired from Accel Partners as a managing director in Mumbai; Asia-based Hiroyuki Otsuka, Matthew Hunter and Wayne Bannon are promoted to managing director.
China Merchants Capital: Tianwei Zhang, a former J.P. Morgan executive, is appointed COO of the newly created alternatives division of China Merchants Group.
CITIC Capital: Robert Lie joins from Redevco Asia as managing director in the real estate division.
CITIC Private Equity: Lefei Liu resigns as chairman, although he remains CEO.
CLSA Capital Partners: Gary Ng is promoted to managing director, overseeing India and Southeast Asia for ARIA Investment Partners.
CVC Capital Partners: Adrian MacKenzie, managing partner responsible for investments in Australia, resigns.
D.E. Shaw: Anil Chawla resigns as India managing director but remains in a consultancy role.
Everstone Capital: PrateekDhawan is hired from Accel Partners.
General Atlantic: Nick Nash, who co-launched the firm's Singapore office, is promoted to principal.
Goldman Sachs: Stephanie Hui is named head of merchant banking for Asia ex-Japan.
Global Environment Fund: Luis Miranda, founder of IDFC's PE business, joins as senior advisor; Sridhar Narayan becomes principal.
Harvest Capital Partners: RongRen resigns as CEO after seven years at the company.
Headland Capital Partners: George Raffini and Marcus Thompson become chairman and CEO, respectively. They were previously joint managing partners.
IL&FS: ArunKorati joins from Axis Private Equity, where he was managing director and CEO.
India Value Fund Advisors: HareshChawla, ex-CEO of Network18, becomes partner.
Intel Capital: SudheerKuppam, Asia Pacific managing director, assumes responsibility for investment activity in Taiwan and Korea, adding to his existing coverage of India, Japan and Southeast Asia.
Iris Capital: Francis Perrin and Hiroshi Nishikawa are appointed heads of the Tokyo office; Nicolas du Cray takes on the same role in Beijing.
KKR: Eight members of the Southeast Asia team, led by Hong Kong-based Ming Lu, relocate to newly-opened Singapore office; AkhilPuri joins from TPG Capital as a Capstone director; Tashwinder Singh, formerly of Citigroup, becomes a director based in Mumbai.
L Capital Asia: UdayMehra, a former Asia-Pacific operations executive for Tommy Hilfiger, becomes managing director.
Leopard Capital: Richard Intrator becomes Cambodia managing partner and CIO.
Mandarin Capital Partners: Yani Kong becomes vice president in the Beijing office.
Mekong Capital: Veronica John, founder of Serasi Capital, joins as a senior advisor.
Olympus Capital Asia: Gary Stead, co-founder of Shearwater Capital Group, becomes Australia country head.
Saban Capital: SumeetJaisinghani relocates from Los Angeles to Hong Kong to set up the Asia operation.
TPG Capital: Francis Woo, previously of Credit Suisse, joins as principal in the Southeast Asia team.
Unitas Capital: Sir Kevin Smith, former CEO of GKN, becomes a partner.
Warburg Pincus: ZhimingYue and Joe Gagnon in Hong Kong and NitinNayar in Mumbai are promoted to managing director
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