EQT has announced the appointment of James Yu, who joined EQT in 2013 and most recently served as global head of EQT Capital Markets, as head of client relations and capital raising. The role brings together responsibility for two of EQT’s key client-facing teams — client relations and capital raising as well as debt and equity capital markets.
Yu will be the eighth member of EQT’s executive committee, alongside CEO Per Franzén; Christina Drews, COO; Kim Henriksson, CFO; Gustav Segerberg, head of business development and CEO office; Jean Salata, Asia chairperson and head of private capital Asia; Lennart Blecher, deputy managing partner and chairperson of real assets; and Masoud Homayoun, head of infrastructure.
Chief commercial officer Suzanne Donohoe, along with Bahare Haghshenas, head of sustainable transformation, and Ricardo Reyes, head of communications and external affairs, have stepped off the executive committee. Donohoe will remain involved to support s
