Dattels and Olds build new bridges with Newbridge

Newbridge Capital has appointed Tim Dattels as a managing director and John Olds as a senior advisor. The private equity group is the Asian JV between Texas Pacific Group and Blum Capital Partners and has been one of the biggest private equity investors in the region for a number of years.

Dattels is the ex-head of Asian investment banking at Goldman Sachs, a position he held from 1996-2000 when he went to Menlo Park to run Goldman's office there. He retired from Goldman in 2002. In 2003 he became a senior advisor to Newbridge in between cycling trips across British Columbia and expeditions to the Galapagos Islands and Africa.