Private Equity Pros to Watch: 10 PE Investors Reshaping the Business — Mergers & Acquisitions

From attempting to recast the public image of private equity to trying to forge a new investment firm, 10 individuals profiled in the June issue of Mergers & Acquisitions are making their marks on middle-market investing, Tamika Cody, Mary Kathleen Flynn and Danielle Fugazy report.  From the intro:

To highlight a few: Pam Hendrickson, chief operating officer of the Riverside Co. and a director of the global Association for Corporate Growth, has been spreading the word on Capitol Hill, and across the country, that private capital matters to the growth of the U.S. economy.

 

Andrew Sheiner, a managing director of Onex, is about to start his own firm. Molly Ashby, the founder of Solera Capital, led one of the most successful PE-backed initial public offerings of the year when organic packaged-food maker Annie’s went public. Andrew Rice is continuing efforts to invest in China on behalf of the Jordan Co., and Hadley Mullin has been leading TSG Consumer Partners into new sectors.

Private Equity Pros Are Mixing Things Up and Building New Combinations