Lyceum Capital, the growth investor, is delighted to announce six new hires to support its future expansion.

Luke Kingston joins Lyceum’s deal origination and research team as a Director. Luke has enjoyed an extensive career in private equity, most recently as Director of Financial Sponsors at RBS and previously as an Investment Manager at Sovereign Capital and Associate Director on the M&A team at Ernst & Young.

The firm has created two new roles to enhance its capital markets and marketing activities. Anne-Claire de Pompignan has been appointed Director of Banking & Investor Relations joining Lyceum Capital after nine years at European Capital as Investment Director in the Private Debt team. Regina Malzburg-Collins has been appointed as Lyceum’s first Head of Marketing, joining from outside the private equity industry with over 15 years’ experience in the financial services sector at electronic trading solutions provider Ullink, and interdealer broker Tradition.

Further additions to the investment team include Anne SofieStaunsbaek who joins from Advent International as an Investment Manager responsible for sourcing and executing investments and Tom Maizels joining as an Investment Executive, following four years at Spayne Lindsay as an M&A adviser.

Mike Driscoll has joined Lyceum’s operations team as an Executive to help support Lyceum’s portfolio companies. Previously Mike worked at Lyceum’s portfolio company Bellrock and before that at Serco Consulting.

Commenting on the appointments, Jeremy Hand, Managing Partner said:

“We’re delighted to welcome Luke, Anne-Claire, Anne Sofie, Regina, Tom and Mike to the Lyceum team. Each of them brings a wealth of experience and expertise and together they add greatly to Lyceum’s bench strength.”