PORTLAND — Blackstone Accelerates Growth, a statewide initiative involving the Maine Technology Institute, the Maine Center for Entrepreneurial Development and the University of Maine, recently announced the completion of its national executive search and the hiring of John Voltz as its executive director.

A resident of Cape Elizabeth, Voltz joins the initiative from Jane Capital Partners, a San Francisco-based corporate advisory and merchant banking firm, where as a principal, he spent the past decade advising entrepreneurs launching and expanding their businesses, and multi-national corporations seeking investment and partnership opportunities.

Voltz has a B.A. in biology from Grinnell College and a M.B.A. in finance and marketing from the UCLA Anderson School of Management.