H.I.G. Capital, a global alternative investment firm with more than $50 billion of capital under management, appointed Benjamin Charon to its capital formation group as a managing director, based New York.

Charon will be responsible for business development and capital raising across H.I.G.’s global private equity platform. With more than 10 years of private capital raising and institutional sales experience, Charon joined H.I.G. from Evercore, where he was a managing director in its private funds group and was responsible for capital raising and advising the firm’s clients across private equity, private credit and infrastructure asset classes.

“We are thrilled to welcome Ben to H.I.G. His background and tenure in capital formation spans a wide array of private equity strategies, and he brings with him a depth of experience and relationships,” Jordan Peer Griffin, executive managing director and global head of the capital formation group at H.I.G. Capital, said. “Ben is joining the firm at an exciting time, as we are seeing great opportunities across our entire global middle-market private equity platform.”