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Fund Placement - London
Liability Solutions Limited

Richard Watkins - Chief Executive Officer

With 30 years of institutional investment experience, Richard holds a B.Sc. in civil engineering and an MSI from the Securities Institute. He has worked in London, New York, Australia and Venezuela. In 2000 he co-founded Liability Solutions, a hedge fund marketing and fund of hedge funds advisory business, operating out of offices in London and New York. In 1992, he was co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of the LatInvest Group, a London and New York based Latin American investment bank, which subsequently became BBV LatInvest. Prior to establishing LatInvest, he was on the Schroders Group Executive Committee, responsible for Capital Markets and Securities.

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Richard Malpas

Richard has 30 years experience in investment banking. He joined the Chase Manhattan Bank in New York after receiving an MBA from the Wharton School. During his 18 years with Chase, Richard held numerous positions in New York and Latin America in corporate finance and debt capital markets. Richard joined ING in 1994 to head Corporate Finance for Latin America. Shortly after his 1995 move to London he became Global Head of the Debt Products Group for ING Barings. Richard joined Liability Solutions in June 2001.

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Philip O'Neill

Philip has over 20 years of institutional investment experience, and a degree in Economics and Politics and a postgraduate Marketing Diploma from Kingston University, Surrey. Beginning his City career with the London Commodity Exchange in 1984, he was an Associate Director at CAL Futures Ltd in London before leaving in 1990 to co-found as Marketing Director, Folkes Asset Management, a private advisory firm in non-traditional investments. Between 1994 and 2000 was responsible for institutional marketing at Union Group / World Invest. Philip joined Liability Solutions in October 2000.

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Alexis Pott

Alexis has previously worked for M Financial Group and Wells Fargo in the United States. Alexis has an MA in Art History from the Courtauld Institute of Art. She joined Liability Solutions in July 2004.

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Fund Placement - US
Liability Solutions 

Mike Finnell

Mike was CEO of MIT Associates, a highly regarded 3rd Party Marketing firm, from April 2002 until its merger with Liability Solutions in September 2008. During that period MIT raised $1.5 billion of capital for hedge fund clients across a range of strategies including distressed, L/S Equity, Global Macro and Fixed Income arbitrage. Prior to MIT Associates Mike worked for Bear Stearns, where he was Managing Director of Equity Capital Markets responsible for capital raising across a range of industries in the private, public and convertible markets. Prior to Bear Stearns, Mike had 11 years experience as a Managing Director in Equity Capiltal Markets at ING Barings (formerly Furman Selz) and UBS. He also has worked in Debt Capital Markets, Financial Institutions Innbestment Banking and Corporate Lending. Mike holds a BA in Political Science from St. Mary's College of California and a graduate degree in International Management from the American Graduate School of International Management in Arizona.
 

Drew Otocka           

Before its merger with Liability Soltuions in September 2008, Drew originally joined MIT Asset Management in 1999 as Managing Director and was a founding partner of MIT Associates, a Broker Dealer established in 2002. He was instrumental in that firm's successful asset raising activities among institutional investors. Prior to MIT Asset Management, Drew spent 14 years in a variety of senior marketing positions at both Citibank and Chase Manhattan Bank with an emphasis on relationship management. He also has extensive consumer marketing and sales experience. Drew holds a BA in Economics from Middlebury College and an MBA in International Business from the Wharton Graduate School University of Pennsylvania.

    
 

Peter Hamilton

Before its merger with Liability Solutions in September 2008, Peter joined MIT Associates as a Managing Director in June, 2006 from Hamilton Investment Partners, a firm specializing in hedge funds and private equity placements. Prior to Hamilton Investment Partners, he spent over 20 years at Morgan Stanley in the Fixed Income Department serving as a Managing Director and Head of Credit Derivative Sales and Marketing. Peter holds a BA from Amherst College and an MBA from the Columbia Graduate School of Business Administration.

    
 

Christine Dorvil

Christine joined Liability Solutions in September 2008 from MIT Associates where she worked as a Controller. Prior to MIT Associates she worked at Mars & Co., a management consulting firm in Greenwich, CT, where she was a Research Associate. Christine holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance from Iona College where she is also a candidate for an MBA in Finance.

 

Fund Placement - Geneva Branch
Liability Solutions International Limited

Jeannette Thurnherr

Jeannette has 20 years of experience in Private Banking. She joined the finance sector after her studies at the University of Lausanne. Jeannette worked for several well known banks in Geneva as a portfolio manager and as a coordinator for external managers. She joined Liability Solutions in July 2009 as Branch Office Manager in Geneva.