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West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – Gabrielle Guttman launched connext consulting inc. after leaving Southridge LLC, where she served as the vice president of business development and marketing of the firm and its hedge funds.
She left the company to pursue the business venture and to launch her own customer base. According to Guttman, who is president of the firm, the new firm will employ an integrated and customized approach to successfully elevate their clients’ businesses to the next level through strategic introductions, business development, marketing and public/ investor relations. Their target market will include financial institutions, professional services firms, minority-owned businesses and not-for-profit organizations.
At Southridge, Gabrielle was responsible for hedge fund marketing, public/investor relations and marketing financial products to global public companies. She previously held Business Development and Marketing roles at Kroll Inc. and Grey Group Inc. Gabrielle’s financial career began at Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc. as a Corporate Finance Analyst where she helped execute equity, debt and M&A transactions across a wide range of industries.
Gabrielle graduated Magna Cum Laude from Barnard College, Columbia University. Since 2003 she has held Board and Advisory positions with Barnard Business and Professional Women, a not-for-profit alumnae organization. Throughout her career, Gabrielle has been an active volunteer and currently holds leadership positions with notable not-for-profit and philanthropic organizations focused on the financial services industry, women’s initiatives and children’s development.
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HedgeCo.net (West Palm Beach) – Hedge fund founder J. Winder Hughes, III, has joined wastewater treatment and power generation technology company, ThermoEnergy Corporation, on the Company’s Board of Directors.
Hughes is the Managing Director of the private equity firm of Hughes Capital Investors, LLC. In 2000, Hughes formed the Focus Fund, LP, a Florida-based, highly concentrated equity partnership that focuses on publicly-traded emerging growth companies. Over the past two years, the Focus Fund has become one of the largest investors in ThermoEnergy Corporation.
"We are extremely pleased that Mr. Hughes accepted our invitation to join the board of ThermoEnergy Corporation," said Dennis C. Cossey, ThermoEnergy’s Chairman and CEO. "With his extensive background in corporate finance and investment banking, Mr. Hughes represents a tremendous resource on which the ThermoEnergy management team can rely on."
"Given that the Company is on the cusp of commercial prosperity with its wastewater treatment business and at the forefront of achieving value-creating milestones with its Babcock-Thermo Carbon Capture joint venture," said Mr. Hughes, "I look forward to working with the management team to strengthen the company’s financial stability and improve business performance for the benefit of all its stakeholders."
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Reuters – The following corporate finance-related stories were reported by media on Friday:
* Fortress Investment Group, among the largest private equity and hedge fund firms, is looking to go on an acquisition drive, the Financial Times said, citing a memo passed to Fortress staff. [ID:nBNG147186]
* Spain’s Cosmen family and private equity group CVC have made a joint takeover approach for British bus and rail group National Express Group Plc, the Financial Times reported on Friday, citing people close to the situation. [ID:nLN409582]
