The latest moves around the Asia-Pacific wealth management industry.

Cocoon Capital
Asia-based venture firm Cocoon Capital has appointed Martin Roll as external senior advisor. Roll will advise the firm, which is located out of Singapore on strategy, global expansion, branding and marketing. 

Roll is the chief executive of Martin Roll Company and brings with him more than 25 years of board and C-suite counselling experience. He teaches MBA, EMBA and Executive Education programmes at Nanyang Business School (Singapore), and is a frequent guest lecturer at INSEAD and other business schools, the firm said in a statement. 

Cocoon Capital, a $7 million venture firm, targets early-stage tech investments across Southeast Asia with a preference for business-to-business focused software-as-a-service, fintech, ecommerce and other tech businesses. It invests up to USD750,000 per company and works with the founding teams till the next funding round. Cocoon's portfolio includes Hapz.com. Poundit.com and Hiip.asia.

Backers of the firm include successful entrepreneurs and family offices from the US, Europe and Asia. Cocoon Capital has strategic partnerships with Amazon Web Services and Amadeus Next, the incubation arm of travel giant Amadeus. More at cocooncap.com

HarbourVest Partners
HarbourVest Partners, a global private markets asset manager, has appointed Simon Jennings as a managing director, the firm said in a statement.

Based in London, Jennings will focus on business development with distribution partners in Europe and Asia to help their private wealth clients achieve their private markets objectives.

He has nearly 30 years of experience in the financial sector. Prior to joining HarbourVest, he was the global head of private equity at HSBC, where he was responsible for creating, structuring, and accessing private equity investment opportunities for private and institutional clients.
 

Odyssey
Hong Kong-based Odyssey Capital Group, which also has offices in Sydney, Vietnam and London, has appointed Max Martirani, a former portfolio manager at the firm Symmetry Investments, to take on the role of asset management head.

At Symmetry Martirani worked in areas such as Global macro, Asia, foreign exchange, interest rates, equities, commodities and options. Martirani left Symmetry early this year after working there for more than two years. Prior to this, he was an executive member and PM at Graham Capital for 3 years and portfolio manager at Citadel for 2 years.

The newly-minted firm, which received its asset management from Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission in September, recently launched the NZ Focused Fund, a property and liquidity fund concentrating, as its name suggests, on the New Zealand market.

Odyssey said in a statement it is launching two further alternative investment funds, with one of them called Asian Senior Secured Private Debt Fund. The other fund is an Australian-focused alternative lending fund.