Copenhagen-based Polaris Private Equity has appointed Michael Pontoppidan Frost as investment manager, starting in January 2013. 

Pontoppidan Frost joins from KKR where he was an associate for over three years. Prior to that he was an associate at Credit Suisse and was previously an analyst at Gudme Raashou. 

He holds a masters in finance, investments and accounting from Handelshøjskolen i København, a masters in finance from Harvard University and a BSc in economics and business administration from Handelshøjskolen i Århus.