17Capital bolsters team with three hires

José Rojo
22 June 2015

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Preferred equity specialist 17Capital has announced it has strengthened its London team with the hires of Beate Pelz, Vjerana Spajić and Nicolo Colombo.

Pelz, who joins 17Capital as investor relations director, began her career at Deutsche Bank, where she focused on risk control and regulatory matters from 1997-1998. She left the bank to become an analyst at Lazard, before joining Halder as an investment manager until 2006.

Prior to 17Capital, Pelz's recent employers include Bridgepoint Capital, which appointed her as investment director, and Quartum Kapital, where she had been a senior adviser since January 2013.

Spajić, the firm's newest senior associate, started her career at Merrill Lynch and then became an analyst at CEEMarketWatch and the Croatian National Bank between 2008- 2010. After seven months at Rabobank and Rothschild's Food & Agriculture M&A joint venture, she was recruited by AlpInvest, which employed her successively as analyst, associate and senior associate.

Meanwhile, Colombo joins 17Capital as an associate. He was analyst and then associate at Crédit Suisse from August 2010 to October 2013. Colombo then worked in Adams Street Partners' secondaries team until May 2015.

The wave of recruitments takes place five months after 17Capital's third fund reached its €500m hard-cap following around six months of fundraising. Drawing 95% of its commitments from previous backers, 17Capital Fund 3 mirrors its predecessors' strategy as it provides preferred equity to liquidity-seeking LPs and GPs.