The endowment's timber manager, who joined in 2001, will retire from the $36bn management company later this year.
The search comes amid CDC's plans to extend the range of its activities to include direct equity investing and direct lending alongside its fund selection business.
Hancock Natural Resource Group has appointed Bill Peressini as chief executive and Wilfred Steiner as managing director and chief financial officer.
The new hire, Thor Talseth, is a seafood specialist who joined this month from Neptune Partners.
The new hire, Shane McIntyre, was appointed as the national director of rural & agribusiness and will based out of Colliers' Melbourne office.
Florida’s State Board of Administration is seeking to fill a newly-created position of portfolio manager in its strategic investment and private equity department, which includes timberland.
The agri-specialist PE firm will also reveal its first two investments within the next six months.
Heartland is based in Ohio, where agriculture is one of the US State's largest industries and ripe for small business lending.
Its infrastructure and timberland team is responsible for an A$8bn global portfolio, making it one of the largest infrastructure investors in the world.
John Rushen joins Insight from Aon Hewitt where he was head of EMEA investment services and has also held senior positions at BlackRock and Mercer.