Saints hires former tech advisor

Saints Capital has hired Justin Stebbins, a former director at Go4Venture, Secondaries Investor has learned.

Stebbins joined Saints in February as a senior associate, according to his LinkedIn profile.  He previously spent five years at London-based technology advisory firm Go4Venture and has worked as a senior investment associate at venture capital firm Four Rivers Group.

Saints did not return a request for comment by press time.

According to the firm’s website, Stebbins’ appointment brings the total number of investment professionals to six, including co-founders Ken Sawyer and David Quinlivan. Saints is also led by chief financial officer Bob Keppler, managing director Ghia Griarte and director Niko von Huetz.

The firm recently lost analyst Toan Pham, who joined Carmel Partners earlier this month and another investment professional Priya Saiprasad, who joined mobile payment company Square last September, according to their LinkedIn profiles.

Saints is a San Francisco-based direct secondaries firm. It launched its most recent secondaries fund – Saints Capital VII – in 2011 with a $300 million target, according to PEI’s Research and Analytics division.