Silverfleet adds executive

Silverfleet Capital, the London-based private equity firm formerly known as PPM Capital, has appointed Frédéric Chiche as an executive

Chiche joins the Paris office from Providence Equity Partners, where he was a senior associate in the US buyout house’s London team. Before Providence, he worked in M&A at Morgan Stanley and Rothschild & Cie, both in Paris

Silverfleet currently has just one French company in its portfolio, Histoire d’Or, a jewellery retailer it acquired in 2006. A previous French investee business, OREFI Participation, a European distributor of industrial parts, was sold to Investcorp in 2006.