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GLG key biographies
Karim Abdel-Motaal
Karim joined GLG in September 2008 from Morgan Stanley where he was the Global Co-Head of Emerging Markets. Before he moved to Morgan Stanley, Karim was a Portfolio Manager at Tudor Capital where he managed one of the firm's emerging markets trading books. Prior to Tudor, Karim was the Global Head of Emerging Local Markets Research at J.P. Morgan, and a member of the firm's Emerging Markets Management Committee. During this time, he was responsible for building J.P. Morgan's local currency research effort and developing a suite of models and indices that have become benchmarks for the asset class. Karim received a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University.
Jamil Baz
Jamil joined GLG Partners in 2008 as Chief Investment Strategist. Prior to this, he was an Executive Vice-President with PIMCO where he managed global portfolios. Jamil has also worked as a Managing Director in the Proprietary Trading Group of Goldman Sachs, as a Chief Investment Strategist of Deutsche Bank and as a Managing Director at Lehman Brothers. Jamil holds degrees from Ecole des Hautes Commerciales ("Diplôme"), the London School of Economics (MSc), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (SM) and Harvard University (AM, PhD). He also teaches Financial Economics at Oxford University.
Driss Ben-Brahim
Driss joined GLG Partners in 2008 from Goldman Sachs where he was a partner managing director. In his 15 year career at Goldman Sachs Driss has been responsible for several trading businesses including Options and Complex Derivatives trading, the Global Macro Proprietary trading group and the Emerging Markets trading business. Prior to joining Goldman Sachs, Driss worked in London with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Driss graduated as an engineer and applied mathematician from Ecole Centrale de Paris and earned an MBA from INSEAD in Fontainebleau.
Ben Funnell
Ben is a portfolio manager for long only and UCITS III global equity and mixed asset funds at GLG Partners, and is the firm's equity strategist. He is co-manager on the GLG Performance, EAFE, European Equity and Capital Appreciation funds, where he focuses on tactical asset allocation and country, sector and factor exposure from a top-down viewpoint. Previously he spent 11 years at Morgan Stanley, latterly as co-head of the highly-rated European Equity Strategy team, where he worked for 9 years. He started as a Transport analyst and worked on the IPOs of Copenhagen Airports, Vienna International Airport and Ryanair. Before that he was a graduate trainee in the Management Consultancy practice of Coopers & Lybrand. He was educated at Durham University, where he holds a 2.1 Joint Honours in Modern Languages. His views are occasionally published in the media, with recent articles on the looming political problem of income disparity, deficit and debt reduction and growth in a low-growth world.
Noam Gottesman
After completing his BA at Columbia University, New York, Noam worked at Goldman Sachs International for 10 years managing global equity portfolios. In 1995, he co-founded GLG Partners, a division of Lehman Brothers and in 2000 he co-founded GLG Partners LP, where he has overall responsibility for overseeing US equity.
Pierre Lagrange
Pierre has over 24 years of experience in portfolio management and investment research. In 1995 Pierre co-founded GLG Partners with overall responsibility for European and Global Equities, including sector long-short and long-only funds. Prior to that, Pierre worked at Goldman Sachs from 1990, where he had responsibility for managing global equity portfolios and at JP Morgan from 1985 where he worked in government bond trading. Pierre started his career at Exxon Chemicals. Pierre holds an MA in Engineering at Solvay Business School in Brussels.
Emmanuel Roman
Emmanuel Roman received an M.B.A. in Finance and Econometrics from the University of Chicago in 1987 and a bachelor's degree from the University of Paris in 1985. Emmanuel joined Goldman Sachs International Limited in 1987 where over the years he worked in the fixed income, investment banking and capital markets areas and in 1991 he become the co-head of Worldwide Equity Derivatives. In 1996 Emmanuel became a Managing Director of Goldman Sachs International Limited and in 1998 he was elected to partnership. In 2001 he was appointed co-head of Worldwide Global Securities Services and in 2003 he also became co-head of the European Equities Division. In September 2005, after 18 years at Goldman Sachs International Limited, Emmanuel joined the Investment Manager as a Managing Director where he will focus primarily on expanding the business, marketing, risk management, operations, technology and compliance.
Bart Turtelboom
Bart joined GLG in September 2008 from Morgan Stanley where he was the Global Co-Head of Emerging Markets. He joined Morgan Stanley in 2004 from Vega Asset Management where he was an emerging markets portfolio manager. Prior to this, he was a Director at Deutsche Bank in London from 1998 until 2003. Bart held a variety of positions at Deutsche Bank, culminating in his responsibility for coverage ofthe firm's largest emerging markets clients. Prior to Deutsche Bank, Bart was an economist for the International Monetary Fund in Washington D.C. from 1994 until 1997. Bart received a Ph.D. in Economics from Columbia University.
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