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Apollo Names Jaycee Pribulsky as Partner and Chief Sustainability Officer

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Pribulsky succeeds Dave Stangis, who will transition to a senior advisor role in 2026

NEW YORK, Oct. 01, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Apollo Global Management, Inc. (NYSE: APO) today announced that Jaycee Pribulsky has been named Partner and Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO), effective October 1. Pribulsky will lead Apollo’s established sustainability strategy, which aims to strengthen long-term value creation and enhance risk management across the firm’s integrated investment platform.

Stangis, who has served as Apollo’s inaugural CSO since 2021 and helped to design Apollo’s Sustainability organization as a robust and long-term management system, will work with Jaycee to support a seamless leadership succession plan. As part of his plans to retire, Stangis will transition into a senior advisor role beginning in 2026. Prior to building out Apollo’s sustainability strategy and capabilities, Stangis was the first CSO at The Campbell’s Company and served as the first Global Director of Corporate Responsibility at Intel Corporation.

Pribulsky brings more than 20 years of experience spanning sustainability, operations and innovation. Most recently, she was Chief Sustainability Officer at Nike, where she led the Nike, Inc. sustainability strategy across product, operations and the supply chain. She also oversaw sustainability governance and reputation management.

Prior to her CSO role, she led Nike’s global footwear sourcing and manufacturing teams. Earlier in her career, she held leadership roles at Bloomberg and Citigroup, focusing on corporate social responsibility, strategy and stakeholder engagement. Jaycee holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and a BA in French and Communications from American University.

“We thank Dave for his significant contributions to developing Apollo’s industry leading sustainability program and look forward to his continued partnership in an advisory capacity. Jaycee’s cross-sector experience and track record of building durable, business-aligned sustainability programs will continue to advance Apollo’s differentiated approach and competitive leadership,” said Scott Kleinman, Co-President of Apollo Asset Management.

Jaycee Pribulsky added, “Apollo is known for its scale, capabilities and focus on delivering performance and resilience for clients and portfolio companies. I am excited to build on that foundation working closely with colleagues and partners, using Apollo’s sustainability strategy as a practical tool for long-term value creation.”

Apollo’s sustainability strategy focuses on identifying material risks and opportunities across asset classes, while supporting performance, efficiency and innovation. This approach is fully integrated into Apollo’s investment and operating model, reflecting the firm’s emphasis on durability and value over time.

About Apollo
Apollo is a high-growth, global alternative asset manager. In our asset management business, we seek to provide our clients excess return at every point along the risk-reward spectrum from investment grade credit to private equity. For more than three decades, our investing expertise across our fully integrated platform has served the financial return needs of our clients and provided businesses with innovative capital solutions for growth. Through Athene, our retirement services business, we specialize in helping clients achieve financial security by providing a suite of retirement savings products and acting as a solutions provider to institutions. Our patient, creative, and knowledgeable approach to investing aligns our clients, businesses we invest in, our employees, and the communities we impact, to expand opportunity and achieve positive outcomes. As of June 30, 2025, Apollo had approximately $840 billion of assets under management. To learn more, please visit www.apollo.com.

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Noah Gunn
Global Head of Investor Relations
Apollo Global Management, Inc.
(212) 822-0540
IR@apollo.com

Joanna Rose
Global Head of Corporate Communications
Apollo Global Management, Inc.
(212) 822-0491
Communications@apollo.com

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GreenShift secures €2.35M in round by 4impact capital, The Footprint Firm and Rockstart

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GreenShift, an Amsterdam-based AI powered technology company revolutionizing sustainable cloud computing, has raised €2.35 million in a Convertible Loan Agreement (CLA) round. The investment was led by 4impact capital and The Footprint Firm with continued support from Rockstart.

The fresh capital will enable team growth and support GreenShift’s efforts to deepen enterprise partnerships, advancing its mission to become the operating system for sustainable cloud computing.

Tackling the urgent challenge of cloud emissions

The global cloud market is valued at over €900 billion and growing at a 21% CAGR. With cloud computing already generating more CO₂ emissions than the aviation industry, data centers are projected to account for up to 2.5 billion tons of CO₂ by 2030, nearly 40% of U.S. annual emissions. Today, cloud computing is estimated to account for roughly 2.5–3.7% of global greenhouse gas emissions. A significant share of this footprint is amplified by inefficiencies, such as idle provisioning, complex application deployment architectures that prevent easy cost and emissions attribution, and under-optimised application logic that reduce overall energy use effectiveness. This represents both a massive sustainability challenge and a strategic opportunity: without intervention, cloud and AI workloads will continue to drive unsustainable energy demand.

GreenShift’s solution: Full-stack visibility, real-time optimisation and carbon aware automation

Unlike existing solutions, many of which focus on infrastructure-level optimisation, GreenShift operates at the application layer, where most inefficiencies originate. GreenShift’s AI-powered platform reduces cloud application energy usage by up to 40%. By unifying cost, performance, and carbon into a single optimization engine, it enables organizations to lower emissions and significantly cut cloud costs while driving performance. Unlike traditional optimization initiatives that force a trade-off between cost and performance, GreenShift removes that compromise as well. The result is a step-change in cloud sustainability: lower costs, higher performance, and significantly reduced environmental impact.

Strategic investors supporting GreenShift’s growth

Omar Regoort and Leonid Borodaev, Co-CEOs of GreenShift, stated:

“Our vision is to lead the global shift to sustainable cloud computing. By building the operating system for sustainable cloud, we ensure digital growth is efficient, high-performing, and green by default. With 4impact, The Footprint Firm, and Rockstart as partners, we’re in a strong position to accelerate adoption and scale our impact globally.”

Ali Najafbagy, Founding Partner at 4impact capital, said:

“The rapid increase in cloud computing leads to vast inefficiencies, high energy consumption and high emissions. GreenShift tackles this head-on with a scalable, software-first solution that reduces energy use while enhancing performance. Omar, Leonid, and their team are uniquely positioned to build the global category leader in sustainable cloud computing, and we are proud to lead this round.”

Sofie Käll, CIO at The Footprint Firm, commented:

“We are excited to back GreenShift in addressing the critical and growing issue of costly, and emissions-heavy computing. Their solution delivers a powerful alignment of operational, economic and environmental value for Enterprises – exactly what’s needed to make sustainable technology truly scale. We’re betting on a future where AI serves, rather than strains, the planet, and we truly believe Omar and Leonid of Greenshift are the ones to help realize that vision”

Gem Kua, Investment Manager at Rockstart, added:

“Backing Omar and Leonid in GreenShift’s stealth phase was about more than investing in technology – it was about backing founders who could tackle the AI era’s compute and emissions challenge. Their early deployments have already demonstrated strong results across sustainability, cost, and performance metrics, and we’re proud to back them again as they are on track to lead the sustainable cloud computing category.”

The GreenShift investment benefits from support from the European Union under the InvestEU Fund.

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Onapsis Partners with Microsoft to Boost Enterprise Defense with End-to-End SAP Security Monitoring

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Onapsis Defend integration with Microsoft Sentinel Solution for SAP helps Security Operations teams strengthen SAP threat detection and response

 

BOSTON, MA., September 30, 2025 – Onapsis, a global leader in SAP cybersecurity and compliance, today announced the launch of a new integration between its flagship Onapsis Defend threat monitoring product and Microsoft Sentinel Solution for SAP, based on Microsoft’s AI-powered cloud-native Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) platform. The integration provides security operations centers (SOC) with unified visibility and threat detection and response capabilities for SAP security events.

SOC teams struggle with a profound visibility gap into activity happening in their mission-critical SAP landscapes, which commonly serve as foundational systems of record for enterprises. This gap includes identifying SAP threats, detecting SAP-targeted exploits and zero-day activity, suspicious user or insider behavior, sensitive data downloads, security control violations and more. The new integration provides organizations with a superior early warning system with proprietary exploit detection rules for business-critical SAP applications, enabling their security teams to detect exploit attacks on vulnerable SAP systems before patches are even released.

“The collaboration extends the power of Onapsis’ SAP-endorsed, industry-leading threat monitoring directly into Microsoft Sentinel Solution for SAP,” said Sadik Al-Abdulla, Onapsis Chief Product Officer. “By unifying Onapsis’ context-rich insights with Microsoft Sentinel’s Solution for SAP, enterprises can investigate and respond to SAP threats faster, meet strict disclosure requirements with confidence and strengthen their security posture across both on-prem, cloud and RISE with SAP environments.”

Key benefits of the integration include:

  • Specialized Exploit and Zero-Day Detection: The Microsoft Sentinel Solution for SAP offers advanced pre-patch exploit protection and early warning alerts against cyberattacks, enriched with threat intelligence from Onapsis Research Labs and their Global SAP Threat Intelligence Network. This collaboration enhances Microsoft Sentinel’s native SAP capabilities with specialized insights from one of the industry’s most trusted research teams.
  • Context-Rich Alerts, Designed for the SOC: SAP events are uniquely enriched with detailed explanations, mitigation guidance, and anomaly scoring from the SAP cybersecurity experts at the Onapsis Research Labs to accelerate investigations
  • AI-Powered Security Insights: The powerful Microsoft Sentinel Solution for SAP and Microsoft Security Copilot AI capabilities, combined with the security insights and threat intelligence from Onapsis, offer superior identification of sophisticated attacks affecting your SAP and broader environment.
  • Unified Security Operations: With market-leading SAP threat and exploit detection from Onapsis, organizations can push security events to Microsoft Sentinel Solution for SAP for correlation with broader enterprise events to streamline incident handling and reduce response times through a unified view of the overall threat landscape in the Microsoft Unified SecOps Platform.

“Microsoft takes a holistic approach to SAP security, moving beyond isolated conversations. By integrating threat intelligence across the enterprise, and Security Copilot into Microsoft Defender Portal, we demonstrate that security isn’t limited to SAP Applications or data – it is about the whole ecosystem,” said Martin Pankraz, Product Manager, SAP Security, Microsoft. “Onapsis complements that effort with their market-leading pre-breach capabilities such as SAP exploit and zero-day detection, SAP Vulnerability Management or ABAP Code Security. We’re delivering deeper protection for our customers’ SAP landscapes, empowering them to respond to SAP threats faster and keeping them far ahead of the latest SAP attacks and exploitation techniques from malicious threat actors.”

It has been a watershed year for defenders marked by a series of high-profile SAP vulnerabilities, zero-days and global attack campaigns that led to hundreds of enterprises being compromised. Despite SAP’s rapid patching, security practitioners are still faced with the ongoing challenge of protecting their business-critical applications in a sophisticated threat landscape. Considering the notable success of well-funded threat actor groups targeting SAP applications, directly combined with significantly stricter regulatory requirements under EU NIS2 and SEC rules in the US, and the looming deadline for migration to SAP S/4HANA through RISE with SAP, organizations find themselves under unprecedented pressure to better secure their SAP landscapes. The Onapsis integration with Microsoft Sentinel Solution for SAP directly addresses these challenges by giving SOC teams the visibility and control needed to rapidly respond to an increasing number of threats to critical SAP systems.

Availability

The Onapsis Defend for Microsoft Sentinel Solution for SAP integration is available today. Pricing and further details available through Onapsis sales representatives or authorized systems integrators. For more information, please visit the Microsoft Azure Marketplace.

About Onapsis

Onapsis is the global leader in SAP cybersecurity and compliance, trusted by the world’s leading organizations to securely accelerate their SAP cloud digital transformations with confidence. As the SAP-endorsed and most widely used solution to protect SAP, the Onapsis Platform empowers Cybersecurity and SAP teams with automated compliance, vulnerability management, threat detection, and secure development for their RISE with SAP, S/4HANA Cloud and hybrid SAP applications. Powered by threat insights from the Onapsis Research Labs, the world’s leading SAP cybersecurity experts, Onapsis provides unparalleled protection, ease of use, and rapid time to value, empowering SAP customers to innovate faster and securely. Connect with Onapsis on LinkedIn, X, or visit https://www.onapsis.com.

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Symphony Talent Earns Six Industry Honors for Employer Brand Excellence at the 2025 EBMAs

Stg Partners

Symphony Talent, a global leader in talent acquisition solutions, proudly announced its recognition at the 2025 Employer Brand Management Awards (EBMAs), taking home three Gold, one Silver, and two Bronze honors for The Studio at Symphony Talent’s innovative and impactful employer brand work with global clients bp and Standard Chartered.

“These awards reflect the powerful outcomes that can be achieved when innovative thinking meets strong client collaboration,” said Kermit Randa, CEO, Symphony Talent. “Employer brand is the thread that ties together every stage of a full-funnel talent acquisition strategy. Partnering with bp and Standard Chartered, we’ve shown how effectively activating that brand can accelerate hiring success, strengthen long-term talent strategies, and drive measurable impact.”

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BeSound: Diagnosing Masses for the Masses

Kindred Ventures

Our Investment in BeSound

Breast cancer screening is broken. Mammograms, invented in the 1950s, remain the dominant tool despite their limitations. They miss 40% of breast cancers in women with dense breast tissue. The process itself is slow and fragmented: book a doctor’s appointment, wait weeks, undergo a manual exam, then a screening image, then a diagnostic image. For many women, this means weeks of anxiety while answers remain out of reach. The FDA recently updated its guidelines requiring providers to notify women with dense breasts that mammograms may not be enough, sending 40 million women a letter that underscores the shortcomings of today’s system.

BeSound is building an alternative: AI-powered ultrasound that collapses weeks of steps into a single visit. By pairing FDA-approved photo-acoustic ultrasound machines with proprietary AI, BeSound delivers precise functional imaging tailored to each woman’s biology. Unlike mammograms, BeSound delivers answers in hours and has been shown in real-world studies to reduce unnecessary biopsies by up to 75%.

That vision is why we’re excited be co-leading BeSound’s $6.76 million seed alongside Overwater Ventures, Muse Capital, and Lux Capital.

Why We Invested

After an hour with Bailey Renger, we were immediately struck by her unusual background. Her technical expertise, knack for brand, and intuition for the changing shape of healthcare present a rare triple threat. Bailey began her career in science, working in an optics lab, at NASA, and at Harvard in quantum computing before starting a PhD in physics at Brown. But during that time, she faced a medical crisis: “I always wanted to be a physics professor… but when I started experiencing severe pain, my doctors told me it was just cramps. I pushed for an ultrasound, and they found a tumor in my ovary. Then I had to wait months for an MRI. That gap in care was the catalyst for me leaving my PhD to start this company.”

Her story underscores why she is so close to the problem. With one in eight women expected to face breast cancer, Bailey’s blend of scientific training and lived urgency gives BeSound a rare edge. The company is positioned to deliver fast, accurate, and scalable diagnostics—offering hope to millions.

Looking Ahead

BeSound is launching first in Los Angeles with its inaugural West Hollywood location, where women can book same day appointments starting at $349. The company is expanding rapidly, including New York in the coming months, bringing FDA approved technology, hospital grade precision, and expert reviewed results within 24 hours.

In the near future, breast cancer screening will shift from decades-old, one size fits all mammograms to AI-powered functional imaging that adapts to each woman’s biology. The future isn’t just about finding cancers earlier, it’s about giving women fast, precise answers, and building an experience that puts them at the center of care.

Join the waitlist at BeSound.

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Credo Acquires Hyperlume to Advance the Future of AI Connectivity

SOSV

Today, we’re excited to announce that our SOSV portfolio company and HAX startup development program graduate Hyperlume, a pioneer in MicroLED-based optical interconnect technology, has been acquired by Credo (NASDAQ: CRDO).

This marks a major step forward in delivering secure, high-speed connectivity solutions that are more reliable, energy efficient, and ready for the AI era.

Impact on the AI World

The explosion of AI and hyperscale data center workloads is pushing existing connectivity infrastructure to its limits. Traditional electronic interconnects face serious energy and bandwidth bottlenecks that slow scaling and increase costs.

GPU performance has improved ~40,000x since 2000. But the networks that connect those chips have only improved ~80x, creating a significant bottleneck. Today, most GPUs still transfer data via copper cables, an antiquated method that’s cheap but highly inefficient (it generates excessive heat and wastes energy). Laser-based optical cables exist, but they’re 5x more expensive than copper and don’t scale well within tightly packed racks where 40% of the interconnects live.

To keep pace with the exponential growth of data, the world needs a new class of connectivity.

That’s where Hyperlume’s breakthrough MicroLED technology comes in. By using high bandwidth, low latency, low power interconnects for AI data centers and high-performance computing systems, Hyperlume has created a new way to overcome the energy and bandwidth bottlenecks inherent in traditional electronic interconnects.

With this acquisition, Credo now offers one of the most comprehensive connectivity platforms in the industry and strengthens their ability to help customers scale massive AI networks more efficiently and sustainably.

Huge congratulations to Hyperlume co-founders Mohsen Asad (CEO) and Hossein Fariborzi (CTO). When they first joined HAX in 2023, as part of our ever-expanding thesis into next-gen compute and data centres power, their mix of deep technical expertise and conviction is why we invested early.

Read more in Credo’s press release announcing the acquisition here.

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Carlyle and BECON Investment Management Announce Strategic Distribution Partnership in Latin America and US Offshore Markets

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New York and Buenos Aires – September 30, 2025 – Global investment firm Carlyle (NASDAQ: CG) and BECON Investment Management (“BECON”) today announced a strategic distribution partnership focused on Latin America and the US offshore wealth market. This partnership brings together Carlyle’s global investment capabilities with BECON’s deep expertise in regional distribution and its strong understanding of the Latin American wealth ecosystem.

 

The partnership aims to meet the increasing demand for alternative investments among qualified and high-net-worth investors in the region. Distribution will cover select Latin American markets (excluding Brazil and Chile), and the broader US offshore market, with an emphasis on key wealth centers such as Miami, New York, Texas, and California. Through this partnership, BECON will distribute three of Carlyle’s most innovative semi-liquid vehicles via wealth management platforms, including broker-dealers, private banks, family offices, and multi-family offices.

 

This partnership represents a significant step in expanding access to institutional-quality private market strategies. Both firms are committed to delivering long-term value and innovation to investors seeking diversification, performance, and liquidity in today’s evolving market landscape.

 

“We are pleased to partner with BECON to bring Carlyle solutions to a broader range of qualified investors across Latin America,” said Shane Clifford, Head of Global Wealth at Carlyle. “The demand for alternative assets continues to accelerate in Latin America, yet access remains fragmented. By combining Carlyle’s capabilities with BECON’s strong relationships across the wealth channel, this partnership significantly expands the reach of our platform and helps democratize access to quality private strategies.”

 

“We are proud to work alongside Carlyle, one of the most respected names in global private markets,” said Fred Bates, Managing Director at BECON. “Through this alliance, we can offer differentiated, institutional-caliber strategies that respond to the evolving needs of our clients and their portfolios.”

 

As part of this collaboration, Carlyle and BECON will launch a series of initiatives to enhance financial literacy and strengthen advisor expertise. The program will feature webinars and live events, targeted educational content, and technical training to support wealth managers and financial advisors in navigating alternative assets.

 

“Our goal is not only to distribute products, but to foster knowledge and trust around alternative assets,” said Lucas Martins, Managing Director at BECON. “Education is key to building long-term relationships and helping advisors serve their clients better.”

 

“We see this partnership as a bridge between global innovation and regional opportunity. Empowering advisors with the right tools and insights is at the heart of our mission,” said Juan Fagotti, Managing Director at BECON.

 

About Carlyle

Carlyle (NASDAQ: CG) is a global investment firm with deep industry expertise that deploys private capital across its business and conducts its operations through three business segments: Global Private Equity, Global Credit, and Carlyle AlpInvest. With $465 billion of assets under management as of June 30, 2025, Carlyle’s purpose is to invest wisely and create value on behalf of its investors, portfolio companies, and the communities in which we live and invest. Carlyle employs more than 2,300 people in 27 offices across four continents. Further information is available at www.carlyle.com. Follow Carlyle on X @OneCarlyle and LinkedIn at The Carlyle Group.

 

About BECON Investment Management 

Becon Investment Management is an exclusive independent third party distributor focused on the US Offshore and Latin American markets. The team has operated in the Americas for decades, achieving market leadership status for some of the world’s leading investment managers. Becon operates in the following key markets: Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Chile, Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Panama, Caribbean, Mexico and US Offshore. The team has spent years building relationships with professional investors from a variety of backgrounds including institutional pension funds, private banks, brokerage houses, insurance providers, family offices, and independent financial advisors.

 

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CVC DIF to divest Portuguese highway concessions Norte Litoral and Algarve to Igneo Infrastructure Partners

CVC Capital Partners
  • During CVC DIF’s ownership, both concessions delivered stable performance and resilient cash flows, driven by active operational management by CVC DIF’s local investment team
  • The transaction reflects CVC DIF’s strong focus on realising value for its investors, supported by the expertise of its dedicated Divestments team

CVC DIF, the infrastructure strategy of leading global private markets manager CVC, is pleased to announce that it has agreed to sell its interests in the Portuguese highway concessions Norte Litoral and Algarve to Igneo Infrastructure Partners.

The Norte Litoral concession covers the A27 and A28 highways (113km) and runs until 2031, while the Algarve concession covers the A22 highway (133km) which expires in 2030. Both operate under availability-based public-private partnership models with a revenue-sharing component, providing predictable, inflation-linked cash flows.

CVC DIF first invested in these concessions in 2017, later consolidating its position in 2020. Under CVC DIF’s ownership, the projects delivered stable operational performance and resilient cash flows, further enhanced by active operational involvement through effective governance at board level. Portugal remains an attractive market for CVC DIF, which will continue to seek new investment opportunities in the country.

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This transaction is a strong example of CVC DIF’s differentiated exit capability – delivering value from mature concessions, in a market where successful realisations require selectivity, preparation and timing. It highlights our ability to match divestments with the right long-term owner while continuing to generate distributions for our investors.

Andrew FreemanPartner and Head of Divestments at CVC DIF

Closing of the transaction is subject to customary approvals. CVC DIF’s investments in  Norte Litoral and Algarve are held through the DIF Infrastructure IV, DIF Infrastructure VI funds and DIF IV co-investment vehicles.

CVC DIF was advised on the transaction by Santander (financial) and CS Associados (legal)

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Blackstone Credit & Insurance hires industry veteran Kimberly Kim to lead APAC insurance client coverage

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Hong Kong, September 30, 2025 – Blackstone (NYSE: BX) today announced that Kimberly Kim will join the firm as a Senior Managing Director and Head of APAC Insurance Institutional Client Solutions for Blackstone Credit & Insurance (“BXCI”).

This is a newly created role to support the continued expansion of the business in the APAC region. Kimberly brings over 20 years of experience in the APAC insurance market. Prior to Blackstone, she was with BlackRock as Head of Financial Institutions Coverage in APAC.

Tyler Dickson, Global Head of Client Relations for BXCI, said: “Kimberly will play an instrumental role as we continue to expand BXCI’s presence across APAC. She adds to Blackstone’s deep bench of talent in the region, which has been a key driver of our differentiation and success for more than two decades.”

Philip Sherrill, Global Head of Insurance for BXCI, added: “Kimberly’s appointment reflects our commitment to growing our world-class insurance platform and deepening our relationships in APAC. Building our international insurance capabilities is a key pillar of our BXCI strategy. We see a significant opportunity to serve more of this important client base in the region, delivering value for insurers and their underlying policyholders.”

Blackstone manages over $250 billion of insurance client capital across private credit, liquid credit, and other strategies, up 20% year-over-year, and $484 billion in corporate and real estate credit assets, making it the world’s largest third-party focused credit business.

BXCI continues to significantly scale its business in APAC. It has committed to more than 20 deals in the region over the last three years, expanded relationships with investors, including with some of the region’s largest insurers, and doubled its headcount with key hires across Sydney, Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Singapore.

About Blackstone Credit & Insurance
Blackstone Credit & Insurance (“BXCI”) is one of the world’s leading credit investors. Our investments span the credit markets, including private investment grade, asset-based lending, public investment grade and high yield, sustainable resources, infrastructure debt, collateralized loan obligations, direct lending, and opportunistic credit. We seek to generate attractive risk-adjusted returns for institutional and individual investors by offering companies the capital needed to strengthen and grow their businesses. BXCI is also a leading provider of investment management services for insurers, helping those companies better deliver for policyholders through our world-class capabilities in investment grade private credit.

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Wendy Lee
+852 9176 6179
Wendy.Lee@Blackstone.com

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Sportscape Group announces the appointment of Andy Anson as Group CEO

Bridgepoint

Sportscape Group, Europe’s leading e-commerce platform for sports and outdoor enthusiasts, today announced the appointment of Andy Anson as Group CEO.

Andy brings extensive leadership experience across sport, media, and global commerce. For the past six years, he has served as CEO of the British Olympic Association, or TeamGB as it has become known by many. Prior to that, Andy’s experience included leading Kitbag Ltd as CEO, where he oversaw its sale to Fanatics and subsequently became President of Fanatics International. He also held the role of Commercial Director at Manchester United, responsible for global sponsorships and partnerships, and currently serves on the boards of football clubs Red Star FC (Paris), Hertha Berlin and the premium sports nutrition business Science in Sport.

Andy joins Sportscape at an exciting stage in its evolution, following the merger and successful integration of PrivateSportShop and SportPursuit. The business now has a member community of over 25 million sports and outdoor enthusiasts and strong relationships with leading brands across Europe. With strong momentum, the Group is focused on accelerating growth across its core markets: the UK, France, Germany, Italy, and Spain.

Andy Anson commented: “I am thrilled to be joining Sportscape Group at such an exciting time in its journey. Sportscape has already established itself as a key player in the European sports e-commerce landscape, and I look forward to working with the team to unlock its next phase of growth.”

Andy Dawson, Managing Partner and Co-Founder of bd-capital, added: “We are delighted to welcome Andy to Sportscape Group. His deep experience in global sports commerce, coupled with a strong record of leading high-performing teams, makes him the ideal leader to take the business into its next chapter. Sportscape has strong momentum, and we are confident that under Andy’s leadership the Group will scale and strengthen its position as the go-to partner for sports and outdoor brands in Europe.”

Jean-Baptiste Salvin, Partner at Bridgepoint, said: “We are delighted to welcome Andy to Sportscape Group. His proven leadership in global sports and e-commerce makes him exceptionally well placed to guide the business through its next phase of growth. Sportscape has already established a strong position in a fast-growing market, and with Andy’s experience we are confident the Group will accelerate its development and strengthen its role as a leading partner for sports and outdoor brands across Europe. We look forward to working alongside Andy and our partners at bd-capital to support this exciting journey.”

Bridgepoint Group is one of the world’s leading quoted private asset growth investors, specialising in private equity, infrastructure and private credit.

With over $86 billion of assets under management and a strong local presence in Europe, North America and Asia, we combine global scale with local market insight and sector expertise, consistently delivering strong returns through cycles.

Bridgepoint Advisers Limited, a subsidiary of Bridgepoint Group plc, is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.

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