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Clearlake Capital Announces New Senior Hires, With a Focus on Bolstering O.P.S. Team

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SANTA MONICA, Calif., Sept. 3, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. (“Clearlake” or the “Firm”), an investment firm founded in 2006 operating integrated businesses across private equity, credit and other related strategies, today announced several senior-level additions to the Clearlake team that particularly bolster the Firm’s O.P.S.® group focused on operations, people and strategy.

“Having the right team in place is critical to driving the Firm’s continued growth and global operational reach, and Clearlake is proud to welcome a group of accomplished senior executives while also promoting our talent from within,” said José E. Feliciano, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Clearlake. “As today’s acquisition of MV Credit illustrates, Clearlake is focused on broadening our global capabilities to better serve our investors, and we will continue to add the best talent and resources as we expand.”

“We’re proud of the multifaceted team we’ve built, who possess the expertise needed to develop and deploy flexible and creative investment solutions, while managing risk, in today’s dynamic market,” said Behdad Eghbali, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Clearlake. “We welcome our new team members and congratulate our long-tenured senior executives on their well-deserved promotions.”

The recent senior level O.P.S.® new additions include:

Dave Beeston as Managing Director, O.P.S.® Previously Mr. Beeston was at Fenway Sports Group (FSG) where he served as Co-Head of Fenway Sports Management (FSM), EVP, Chief Strategy Officer of the Boston Red Sox, and Alternate Governor of the Pittsburgh Penguins. While at FSG, Mr. Beeston was responsible for day-to-day oversight of the Pittsburgh Penguins and Fenway Sports Management as well as its overall strategic growth and M&A activities. Prior to that, he was an Associate at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP. Mr. Beeston graduated with a B.A. in Philosophy and received a LL.B./J.D. from the University of Western Ontario.

Karina Sobieski as Managing Director, O.P.S.®, Human Capital. Previously Ms. Sobieski was Co-Head of the Portfolio Human Capital practice at Advent International, where she was responsible for talent initiatives across the firm’s portfolio. She previously served as a Partner in the Human Capital Practice at SoftBank Group, as well as a Partner in Human Resources at Andreessen Horowitz.

Madison Steinberg as Vice President, O.P.S.®, Tax. Previously Ms. Steinberg was a M&A Tax Manager at Ernest & Young (EY), supporting private equity and corporate clients with tax due diligence, structuring and modeling.

David Neiman as O.P.S.® Data Scientist Manager. He previously was a Data Scientist at EasyPay Finance.

Rishika Chandrupatla as O.P.S.® Procurement Analyst. She previously was part of the technology team at Kaiser Permanente.

Cassandra Keys as O.P.S.® ESG Analyst.  Ms. Keys was previously the Social Science Technical Lead at the non-profit organization Westwood Greenway Inc.

Clearlake also recently welcomed new additions to the Firm outside of O.P.S.® including:

Naveen Shahani as Principal on the investment team. Mr. Shahani was previously a Principal at Apollo Global Management.

John Curran as Managing Director, Investor Relations, based in New York. Prior to joining Clearlake, Mr. Curran was a Partner at LibreMax Capital.

Mohamed El Fassi as Vice President, Investor Relations. Mr. El Fassi is joining Clearlake from Goldman Sachs’ Alternative Capital Markets Group.

Chris Cooper as Managing Director, Corporate Shared Services, Finance & Operations. Mr. Cooper was previously Chief Financial Officer at Softbank Group International and Sequoia Capital.

David Jacobs as Managing Director, Accounting, Finance & Operations. Mr. Jacobs was most recently Head of Finance and Senior Vice President at Vista Equity Partners. and previously was a Principal at KKR Credit.

Senior Level Promotions

In addition to adding new roles and outside talent, Clearlake continues to promote from within. Its recent senior executive promotions include:

Sean Courtney to Principal. Mr. Courtney joined Clearlake in 2015 and supports several of the firm’s software & technology and consumer platforms. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of several Clearlake portfolio companies, including BakeMark, Confluence, Perforce, symplr, Victory Live and Vive Collective.

Dilshat Erkin to Principal. Mr. Erkin joined Clearlake in 2014 and supports several of the firm’s industrial, software & technology, and consumer platforms. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of several Clearlake portfolio companies, including Concert Golf, EagleView, Hoonigan, Intertape Polymer Group, IXS, MRP Solutions, Pretium, and RSA.

Ben Kruger to Principal. Mr. Kruger joined Clearlake in 2016 and supports several of the firm’s industrial, software & technology, and consumer platforms. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of several Clearlake portfolio companies, including BBB Industries, Constant Contact, Crash Champions, Newfold Digital, PrimeSource and TEAM Technologies.

Kelvin Chang to Principal, Investor Relations. Mr. Chang joined Clearlake in 2022 based in Singapore, and is responsible for raising capital in the Asia-Pacific region. Since joining Clearlake, he has expanded Clearlake’s investor base in the Asia-Pacific region and has supported capital raises for the Firm’s Clearlake Capital Partners strategy.

Marcelia Freeman to Principal, Investor Relations. Ms. Freeman joined Clearlake in in 2020 and is responsible for raising capital for the firm’s various investment vehicles. Since joining Clearlake, she has supported capital raises for the Firm’s Clearlake Capital Partners, Clearlake Opportunities Partners, and structured credit and related strategies.

John Cannon to Managing Director, Portfolio General Counsel & O.P.S.® and Chief Compliance Officer. Mr. Cannon joined Clearlake in 2019 and is responsible for the Firm’s global compliance program and O.P.S.® risk mitigation and value enhancement initiatives across the portfolio.

About Clearlake Capital

Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. is an investment firm founded in 2006 operating integrated businesses across private equity, credit and other related strategies. With a sector-focused approach, the firm seeks to partner with experienced management teams by providing patient, long-term capital to dynamic businesses that can benefit from Clearlake’s operational improvement approach, O.P.S.® The firm’s core target sectors are industrials, technology and consumer. Clearlake currently has over $85 billion of assets under management and its senior investment principals have led or co-led over 400 investments. The firm is headquartered in Santa Monica, CA with affiliates in Dallas, TX, London, UK, Dublin, Ireland Singapore and Abu Dhabi, UAE. More information is available at www.clearlake.com.

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Jennifer Hurson
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jhurson@lambert.com

 

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In Turfan, Xinjiang, China’s first commercially operated microgrid has generated nearly 100 million kWh of electricity

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TURFAN, China, Nov. 15, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — On November 13, the Turfan New Energy City Microgrid Demonstration Project, China’s first commercially operated microgrid demonstration project, generated nearly 100 million kWh of electricity, equivalent to saving 29,000 tons of standard coal and reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 77,600 tons.

A microgrid refers to a small-scale power generation and distribution system organized by distributed power sources, power loads, distribution facilities, monitoring and protection devices, etc., which can realize flexible control and autonomous management. Since the end of 2013, the project had been the largest and most comprehensive solar energy utilization and building integration project in China up to that time, with 8.7 MW of photovoltaic power installed on the roofs of 223 residential buildings, generating an annual power capacity of about 10 million kWh.

To promote the physical operation of the project, the State Grid Turfan Power Supply Company invested more than 2 million yuan to cooperate in the construction of microgrid infrastructure, fully supporting the online operation of surplus new energy power generation, promoting the comprehensive utilization of renewable resources in urban buildings, and helping Turfan build a high-quality development demonstration area and a green and low-carbon pilot area.

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Innovations in Guiyang: Adhering to New Industrialization and Promoting High-End, Intelligent and Green Manufacturing

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GUIYANG, China, Nov. 15, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — A report by Huanqiu.com

The wave of new industrialization in Guiyang is driving the transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing industry in ways like never before. Guiyang is always strategically oriented toward “industrial structure optimization with a focus on industries”, and has made all efforts to develop “four major industrial bases”, highlighting its industrial economy as the “primary driving force” behind development. Especially relying on its policy edge in renewable energy, Guiyang has rapidly emerged as a national new-energy power battery and materials research, development and production center, injecting strong momentum into the city’s economy.

In October 2023, the CATL (Guizhou) New Energy Power and Energy Storage Battery Production Base, located in Gui’an New Area, Guizhou Province, was put into production. The first phase of the base boasts cutting-edge design standards, characterized by “lighthouse + zero carbon factory”. The high-standard facility employs advanced, high-speed, highly automated, and flexible production lines. It is designed to have an annual production capacity of 30 GWh. After the base achieves the designed production capacity, its annual output value is expected to reach 15 billion yuan. According to statistics, the base realized an industrial output value of 618 million yuan in the first half of 2024, and the year’s industrial output value is expected at about 2 billion yuan.

The Chery (Guizhou) industrial base has also yielded unusually brilliant results in the field of new energy vehicles (NEVs), where Chery Automobile’s self-developed “CHEVOO” new-generation light truck KL71 project is undergoing four-pillar car road tests. The advanced pressing, welding, painting and assembly lines, as well as the R&D lab and the all-electric truck production line, together constitute this “digital intelligent” NEV factory. Moreover, the Chery (Guizhou) industrial base has built, extended and strengthened its vehicle manufacturing industry chain so as to master key parts supply chains and reduce development costs.

The Gui’an FinDreams battery project, as an important move of BYD in Guiyang, is also showing its strength in power batteries for NEVs. FinDreams Battery Co., Ltd. at Longshan Industrial Park in Gui’an New Area has four automatic production lines that are operating at high speeds in the workshop, which produce “blade batteries” which are well-known both in and out of the industry. According to reports, 300 battery packs and 40,000 cells can be produced per day.

Guiyang’s “four bases” – a new energy vehicles and battery materials production base, a resource deep-processing base, a computing power assurance base, and an industrial backup base, contribute greatly to the development of NEV and battery materials industry, electronic information manufacturing industry, and advanced equipment manufacturing industry, etc. Data show that in the first three quarters, the added value of Guiyang’s industrial enterprises above designated size grew by 11%, and the contribution of industrial economy to economic growth reached 39.4%.

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Premialab appointed by Lombard Odier Investment Managers to scale Quantitative Investment Strategies

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Premialab’s technology chosen to enhance QIS scaling, operational efficiency, and risk management.

PARIS, Nov. 15, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Lombard Odier Investment Managers (LOIM), the institutional asset management business of the Lombard Odier Group, has integrated Premialab‘s industry-leading technology to support the management of their soon-to-be-launched DOM Global Macro strategy. This partnership underscores LOIM’s commitment to onboard innovative strategies in an evolving market landscape.

“Our decision to partner with Premialab is driven by their comprehensive risk management and regulatory compliance expertise,” said Didier Anthamatten, Portfolio Manager at LOIM. “With a strong track record in alternative investments, LOIM remains focused on delivering innovative investment solutions and high-quality returns for our clients. Premialab’s advanced data capabilities are essential in helping us maintain our rigorous standards and provide robust, risk-adjusted performance. Additionally, their platform perfectly matches the DOM Global Macro strategy’s needs, enhancing our risk monitoring capabilities and streamlining portfolio management.”

The DOM Global Macro strategy expects to leverage Premialab’s unique dataset. The full lookthrough across all DOM’s proprietary systematic strategies allows granular risk decomposition and scenario-based analysis at the entire portfolio level. This should help monitoring exposures’ attractiveness, from both time-series and cross-sectional perspectives, and optimizing asset allocation.

Neil Richards, Head of EMEA Business Development at Premialab, said the collaboration with LOIM is a significant addition to Premialab’s growing business in Switzerland and within the wider European markets.

“Institutions such as LOIM, which oversees a substantial portfolio across various asset classes, need continuous monitoring and adjustment to keep their investments on track,” he explained. “Premialab provides the tools for benchmarking and stress testing their systematic investments, ensuring that LOIM’s mandates are effectively managed in terms of cost, risk, and value.”

Premialab CEO Adrien Géliot highlighted that the QIS sector is experiencing rapid growth, driven by institutional investors seeking liquid, transparent, and cost-efficient investment strategies. “Premialab sits at the centre of the QIS landscape, uniquely positioned to aggregate and make sense of the vast and growing universe of data,” he stated. “We are thrilled to be partnering with LOIM to deliver our unique data and risk monitoring capabilities to one of the top global investment firms.”

Premialab’s multi-asset, multi-region platform handles 10 million data points daily. It analyzes over 5,000 investible systematic strategies, with client assets under management totalling approximately USD $20 trillion. Combining the Premialab platform with Premialab Pure Factors®, it provides comprehensive cross-asset quantitative strategy selection and thorough due diligence on strategies available worldwide. Additionally, the platform enhances risk management and reporting capabilities, including expedited and detailed regulatory reporting.

With its unique combination of systematic strategies and discretionary trading, the DOM Global Macro strategy clearly benefits from Premialab’s state-of-the art data analysis capabilities and computational efficiency. The Portfolio and Risk Managers can thus use a shared dataset for risk analysis and performance decomposition, enhancing the portfolio’s robustness and operational efficiency.

About Premialab
Premialab is the leading independent platform that collaborates with leading investment banks and institutional investors globally, providing data, analytics, and risk solutions for systematic, factor, and multi-asset strategies. With offices in London, Paris, New York, Hong Kong, Dubai and Sydney, the company has forged strong partnerships with the top 18 investment banks, asset managers, pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and insurance companies globally.

About Lombard Odier Investment Managers (LOIM)
Lombard Odier Investment Managers (LOIM) is the institutional asset management business of the Lombard Odier Group, wholly owned and funded by its partners since its establishment in 1796.

We provide a range of investment solutions to a diverse group of long-term oriented clients. Our heritage, and our combination of the best of conservatism and innovation, keeps us well positioned to create lasting value for our clients. Our investment capabilities span fixed income, convertible bonds, equities, multi-asset, and alternatives. Sustainability is central to our investment philosophy; we believe it is the founding principle of long-term economic and investment outcomes and will drive returns over the long term.

With over 200 investment professionals, we are a global business with a network of 13 offices across Europe, Asia and North America and have assets under management of CHF 64 billion (as at 31 September 2024).

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