Audax Group has hired two DWS Group executives to help build out a new strategy to invest in secondhand stakes of private equity assets, according to people familiar with the matter.

Kumber Husain, managing director and head of Americas for the private-equity secondary business at DWS, and Daniel Green, managing director and head of the firm’s Europe, Middle East and Africa regions, are joining the Boston-based private equity firm, the people said. Audax has made several other offers to build out the team, these people said.