Inflexion ring the changes

Inflexion Private Equity, the UK mid market private equity firm, has appointed two new members to its investment team and made three internal promotions.

Andrew Leek has been appointed as assistant director, and joins from Alchemy Partners and SAATCHiNVEST, a private equity vehicle for Maurice Saatchi and the partners of M&C Saatchi. Clara Chen, formerly at Marakon Strategy Consultants, has taken up a role as investment executive. These appointments follow on from three others over the last six months of Nicola Boyd, Malcolm Coffin and Gareth Healy, which take the number of its investment team to 14 based both in London and Manchester.

On the promotion side, Christian Hamilton and Catherine Richards have been promoted from assistant director to investment director and Tim Smallbone has been promoted to partner.