People Moves
Goldman Sachs Man to Head Blackstone Alts London Office
Blackstone Alternative Asset Management, the fund of hedge
funds segment of the Blackstone Group with approximately $31
billion under management at the end of June 2008, has hired
Olivier Meyohas as a managing director to head its
London office and lead its business in
Europe, the
Middle East and
Africa.
Gideon Berger, who has led the firm’s
London office since the end of 2006, has been named chief risk
officer and will return to
New York.
Mr Meyohas will sit on BAAM’s executive and investment committees, reporting to Tomilson Hill, vice chairman of the Blackstone group and president and chief executive of BAAM.
Mr Meyohas has spent the last 16 years at
Goldman Sachs in
London, where he was a managing director; he most recently served
as co-head of the pension advisory group.
