Lightspeed Hires Elliott’s Isaac Kim in Technology Buyouts Push

Lightspeed Venture Partnershired Elliott Investment Management’s Isaac Kim as the venture capital firm plans a foray into technology-focused leveraged buyouts, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

Kim, most recently a senior managing director at Elliott, is set to join Lightspeed after a period of so-called gardening leave, said one of the people, all of whom requested anonymity to discuss confidential information. He joined Elliott in 2015 and worked on transactions including the firm’s buyouts of Citrix Systems, Nielsen Holdings, Gigamon Inc. and Athenahealth Inc., according to his LinkedIn profile. Before Elliott, Kim spent about nine years ...