S&P Capital IQ Power Moves

Simon Borrows is set to be named as chief executive of 3i Group.

Borrows, who joined as chief investment officer, will take over from Michael Queen.

Monroe Capital announced Ben Marzouk has joined the firm as managing director – New York region group head.

Prior to Monroe, Marzouk originated lower middle-market loan transactions at Praesidian Capital. -Business Wire

MCG Capital Corporation announced that Keith Kennedy, executive vice president and managing director, will assume the additional roles of chief financial officer and treasurer, effective as of May 15, 2012. He replaces Stephen J. Bacica.

Kennedy joined MCG in January 2012 and serves as a member of the company’s credit committee. From May 2011 to February 2012, he served as a healthcare advisor and executive-in-residence at Arlington Capital Partners. From October 2009 until he joined Arlington Capital, he pursued principal investing on his own behalf, on behalf of independent investors and exclusively on behalf of J.I. Kislak from March to September 2010. From October 2002 to September 2009, he worked at GE Capital across several functional areas and business segments, rising to the position of managing director. He also led GE Capital’s strategic investments group, a healthcare investment portfolio within its corporate finance group that he helped create to deal with the impact of the credit dislocation on the business unit’s portfolio. Prior to GE, he served in various tax, audit and transaction advisory roles in public accounting where he last served as a manager, transaction services, at Ernst & Young. -Business Wire; Seeking Alpha; Company Website

Southport Lane has appointed Michael Morrow as chief investment officer and president of Southport Lane Advisors.

Morrow will be responsible for developing and actively managing the asset allocation strategies for all of the company’s portfolio companies, as well as overseeing the company’s fixed-income group.

Morrow comes to the company from Intellectual Ventures, where he served as director of structured finance and CFO products, creating financial products around patents to enhance their utility as an asset class.

AssuredPartners has expanded its transaction team with the addition of Mike Kish as director of mergers & acquisitions.

In his new position, Kish will be responsible for assisting senior management to evaluate acquisition opportunities throughout the United States and to lead the acquisition process from valuation through due diligence, and on through completion.

Prior to joining the company, Kish served first as vice president at Marsh, Berry & Company. Most recently he served as an insurance consultant at Zito Insurance Agency of Rocky River, Ohio. -Business Wire

TSG Consumer Partners announced the promotion of Brian Krumrei to managing director and Jenny Baxter to principal.

Krumrei has been actively involved in many of TSG’s investments during the seven years he has been with the firm. He will continue originating and conducting due diligence on new investment opportunities, and working with partner companies on their business strategies.

Most recently, Krumrei has worked with TSG’s investments in Cytosport and Alterna, negotiated the acquisition of Sexy Hair and led TSG’s recent investment in Rebecca Minkoff, among others.

Baxter joined TSG five years ago and was actively involved with TSG’s investment in Smashbox Cosmetics and its successful sale to Estee Lauder. She will continue originating, structuring and diligencing new investment opportunities. She currently works with several of the firm’s partner companies, including Dogswell, e.l.f. cosmetics and TSG’s recent investment in Alexis Bittar. -Business Wire

North Bridge Venture Partners announced that Jonathan Heiliger has joined North Bridge as a general partner. He will be based in North Bridge’s Silicon Valley office.

In addition to working closely with the firm’s current portfolio, Heiliger will focus on identifying companies that are attempting to solve problems of significant scale and scope. His exceptional track record of building large-scale operations will be instrumental in helping the firm attract, identify and nurture investment opportunities that have the ambitious vision to attack large, disruptive business and technical problems. -Business Wire

Hercules Technology Growth Capital appointed Jessica Baron to permanently serve as the company’s chief financial officer, effective immediately.

Baron has served as the company’s vice president of finance and interim chief financial officer since June 2011. -Business Wire

PineBridge Investments announced the appointment of Talal Al Zain as chief executive officer of the firm’s Middle East and North Africa operations.

Al Zain will spearhead the further expansion of PineBridge’s MENA presence, which builds upon the firm’s existing private equity capabilities in Istanbul, Turkey and distribution office in Dubai, UAE. In addition to managing PineBridge’s regional operations, he will serve on PineBridge’s executive committee, and also be co-head of alternative investments, assuming joint management responsibility for the firm’s private equity, hedge fund and other alternative investment businesses globally with Hans Danielsson, PineBridge’s head of investments.

Al Zain was formerly CEO of Bahrain Mumtalakat Holding Company. -Business Wire

Darby Overseas Investments announced that it had added two new executives.

S. Scott Gregory was appointed managing director, responsible for seeking new or expanded commitments to Darby’s family of emerging markets private equity funds by communicating Darby’s investment philosophy, process and strategy to current and prospective institutional investors.

Gregory reports to David Mathewson, senior managing director, and is based in Franklin Templeton’s New York office.

Arkadiusz (Arek) Podziewski was appointed principal and head of Darby’s Warsaw office, responsible for origination and execution of mezzanine and minority equity investments, primarily in Poland but also in the Baltics and Ukraine. He will also focus on supporting and further developing Darby’s operations and funds in Central and Eastern Europe, which are managed by teams based in Bratislava, Budapest, Warsaw, and Istanbul.

Podziewski will report to Nicholas Kabcenell, managing director based in Budapest, and Robert Graffam, senior managing director based in Washington, DC. -Market Wire

Prudential Capital Group appointed Julia B. Buthman as managing director, to head its Dallas corporate finance office.

Buthman oversees a team responsible for originating, marketing and managing private placement and mezzanine investments in the company’s U.S. Southwestern territory, and also is responsible for managing an existing portfolio of senior debt, mezzanine debt and private equity investments.

Buthman previously served as senior vice president responsible for Chicago-based territories, including Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota. She joined Prudential in 2000. -ENP Newswire

Mark Collins will become a partner of Patron Capital.

Collins was formerly managing director of the solutions team in Lloyds Banking Group’s business support unit. He has also been senior managing director of GE Capital Real Estate and chief operating officer at Land Securities.

LeapFrog Investments announced two senior appointments as it expands its investment portfolio in Asia and Africa.

David Steel was named director of investments for East Asia. Steel was previously managing director of strategic planning for American International Group.

Niclas Thelander was appointed executive director of LeapFrog Labs, the group’s innovation and advisory services hub. Thelander was previously head of corporate strategy for Atradius.

Both Steel and Thelander bring to Leapfrog multi-country insurance M&A and performance improvement expertise. -Business Wire

MML Capital Partners has increased the size of its UK team with the addition of Richard Mayers as an investment director in the London team.

Prior to joining MML, Mayers was a director in the strategic business services team at National Australia Bank, having previously led a large number of UK mid-market private equity financed transactions as part of NAB’s leverage finance team, including Retail Decisions, Clarion Events, AKW Medicare and Healthcare at Home. Prior to this, he also gained experience at Goldman Sachs European leverage finance and at Ernst and Young, having qualified as a chartered accountant at Arthur Andersen in the global corporate finance division.

PineBridge Investments announced that it has appointed David T. Jiang as chief executive officer, effective March 1, 2012.

Jiang is a highly experienced investment management professional with an outstanding industry track record. He spent seven and a half years as CEO of the Asia-Pacific region for BNY Mellon Asset Management, during which time he oversaw the development of a suite of solutions tailored to specific client needs in Japan, Asia and Australia. -Asia Pulse

Green Courte Partners announced that Bill Glascott has joined the firm as managing director. He will be responsible for leading Green Courte’s manufactured housing community acquisition activities.

Glascott joins Green Courte after spending the past twelve years with Hometown America, which Green Courte Partners chairman Randy Rowe co-founded in 1997 while he was chairman of Transwestern Investment Company.

AssuredPartners announce that Dean Curtis has joined the company as chief financial officer.

Curtis is a seasoned business executive with 15 years of finance, strategy and operations management experience. Most recently, he served as chief accounting officer of MPS Group. -Business Wire

Augusta Columbia Capital Group announced that Jeff Clarke has joined the firm as a managing partner in its San Francisco office.

Over the past 25 years, Clarke has served in senior leadership positions at a wide variety of global technology companies, including Travelport, CA, Hewlett-Packard and Compaq. He served as president and chief executive officer of Travelport from 2006 until 2011.