The international investment office has added to its funds and direct private investment teams.

Stanhope Capital, the global investment office, has appointed Edward Clive, a senior director in its investment research department, to the role of head of private funds.

Clive previously worked at Lazard and Vantage Group; he has worked at Stanhope for five years.

Additionally, Jerome Sibony has been named head of direct investments. Sibony, who has over 15 years of experience in direct private equity, joins Stanhope Capital from Neo Investment Partners. There, he was the senior principal on the firm's €300 million ($317.6 million) Small/Mid Cap PE Fund, which specialised in international roll-outs of consumer brands. Prior to that role, he was an executive director and head of investments at GE Capital’s private equity division in London. He has also held positions at Activa Capital and Atlas Venture in Paris and London, Stanhope said in a statement yesterday.

Last September Stanhope Capital created a real estate advisory board, to be led by its chief investment officer, Jonathan Bell.