Aquiline adds former E*TRADE exec as advisor

The financial services-focused firm has hired Mitchell Caplan, former chief executive of the online stock trading giant. Founded in 2005 as a joint venture between Venturion Capital and Jeffrey Greenberg, Aquiline is currently investing its debut $1.1bn fund.

Private equity firm Aquiline Capital Partners has hired former E*TRADE Financial chief executive Mitchell Caplan as an executive advisor.

Caplan will assist the financial services-focused firm in evaluating global opportunities in the retail financial services sector, according to a statement from New York-based Aquiline.

Caplan joined E*TRADE in 2000 when the online stock trading giant acquired Telebank, at the time one of the nation’s first pure-play internet banks.

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