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Fund finance professionals David Wilson and Emad Shahin follow Thomas Doyle, who joined the preferred specialist as a partner in September.

Janice Ince will source, evaluate and execute real assets primary and secondaries deals from the firm's San Francisco office.

The Toronto-headquartered firm, which last year raised $1.3bn for secondaries, has appointed Sophia Damianou as MD of EMEA business development.

Ruulke Bagijn, the new head of the firm’s AlpInvest and Metropolitan units, says co-investment and secondaries funds will remain part of the core of the business.

Pfäffikon-based Martha Heitmann and Hong Kong-based Brooke Zhou were promoted in May, a spokeswoman confirmed.

The firm has hired a Goldman Sachs Asset Management investment professional as it bulks up its secondaries team.

In part 2 of sister title Private Equity International's secondaries roundtable, participants discuss fundless sponsor restructurings, single asset deals and how to find the upside of a market downturn.

The appointment is the firm's second this year and brings its total staff to seven.

The new platform will sit within the firm's secondaries unit, Strategic Partners, and work with existing impact managers across all asset classes.

CPPIB, ICG and Kirkland & Ellis are among the firm's represented on PEI's list of the 40 future leaders of private equity.