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KKR appoints APAC growth equity lead

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 3 DEC 2021
... Creative Artists Agency and WebMD. He has also previously held roles with Warburg Pincus in New York, Cisco Systems in Silicon Valley and the US Federal Communications Commission in Washington DC.

CBA takes stake in AI firm

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 8 NOV 2021
Commonwealth Bank has taken a minority stake in a Silicon Valley-based artificial intelligence (AI) platform. H2O.ai operates a cloud-based machine learning platform, H2O AI Cloud, and employs some of the world's top data scientists. The partnership ...

JPMorgan Chase acquires financial planning platform

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 24 SEP 2021
... college more accessible and more affordable for students and their families. Investors in the platform include Silicon Valley Bank and the co-founder and chief executive of Apollo Global Management. "We look forward to joining the Chase family to further ...

Netwealth launches mobile app

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUL 2021
... provides our clients with an elegant, intuitive and professional experience, where the design combines the best of "Silicon Valley" to appeal to both younger clients or more sophisticated clients." Advisers can also download the app to access to all ...

Equity Trustees wins mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 27 APR 2021
... Opportunities PLC (HGO) will invest in growth-stage companies in technology, fintech and medtech with a focus on Silicon Valley and Israel. HGO recently listed on the Euronext Growth Paris. Equity Trustees will act as the AIFM for HGO, which is similar ...

Billionaires club rakes in cash amid COVID-19 crisis

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2020
... chief executive Eric Yuan (up US$2.6 billion), former Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer (up US$2.2 billion), Silicon Valley real estate mogul John Sobrato (up US$2.1 billion), Apollo Global Management co-founder Joshua Harris (up US$1.7 billion) ...

Former CBA exec takes over at Optus

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2019
... technology, commercial and management expertise from a career spanning financial services, management consulting and the Silicon Valley tech sector to Optus. She will build on the success of Optus that has flourished under Allen's dynamic leadership ...

California mandates gender board diversity

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2019
... California-headquartered constituents of the MSCI USA Investable Market Index recorded had all male boards. Thwing Eastman said Silicon Valley potentially has the biggest hurdle in meeting the 2019 deadline as nearly half of companies with all-male boards ...

WAM LIC appoints director

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAR 2018
... communications expert having worked at global firms such as GE and tech firm Juniper Networks, in Hong Kong, London and Silicon Valley. She joined GE in 2008, serving in several marketing, corporate affairs and communications roles prior to rising to ...

US firm hires QIC analyst in Australian expansion

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 30 NOV 2017
A Silicon Valley-based firm co-founded by a former QIC chief strategist has recruited a new head of quantitative modelling. David Priest joins Jacobi Strategies from QIC, where he was a quantitative strategist. Prior to that, he was a quantitative analyst ...