Our Team
Meet the dedicated team at Lantana
George
George was born in Germany and educated at the University of Cape Town and Rhodes University before moving to London to begin his career as a Fixed Income Analyst at Goldman Sachs. He acquired further deal transaction experience through PWC and Accenture before moving to Fox Pitt Kelton as a European financials analyst. From 2012 to 2016, George worked on the EM Sales & Trading – Debt Capital Markets desk at EXOTIX Partners, where he led and helped build out coverage across equities, sovereign and corporate fixed income, and the NPL space centred primarily around the Greek sovereign crisis. More recently, George was Head of Trading & Capital Markets of a Geneva-based family office in London where he led sales & trading and provided investment advice and analysis for internal sovereign and distressed funds as well as private clients in the EM, distressed, HY fixed income, loans & claims and receivables universe. George is a qualified Chartered Accountant and Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. Outside of work he reads widely across history, politics and business and is a keen runner and competitive swimmer.
James
James has held senior PM and trading roles at credit funds over the last twenty years. Most recently, he was the co-founder and senior portfolio manager of the Horatius Fund investing in HY and emerging market credit. Prior to this, he was a director and senior PM of the KKR Credit Fund. James has a proven track record in both the UCITS and AIF spaces and across various market cycles, including the credit crisis of 2008. James has managed complex thematic, relative value and event driven opportunities utilizing dynamic hedging and has invested over both long and short term horizons. A graduate from the University of Bristol where he earned a BA in Philosophy (with Politics) and qualified as a lawyer at Clifford Chance working in their Hanoi office before moving into finance via project management in Mozambique. When not in the office or reading voraciously, James is indulging his passion for the outdoors through riding motorcycles, playing tennis and ski-touring.
Colin
Colin spent the first half of his career in operational roles, project management, and system design at BAML, Deutsche Bank, and VTB in London before moving to Moscow in 2008 to work in fixed income sales and DCM at Metropol Finance. Colin subsequently headed up European fixed income sales at Sberbank followed by building CIS fixed income sales and trading operations at BCS and Norvik Banka across Moscow, Riga, and London. More recently, Colin joined George as COO and provided compliance and management support at the Swiss family office. Colin reads widely across history, literature and business management, plays the guitar and enjoys watching ballet.
Chris
Chris began his career in finance by spending more than 10 years at Morgan Grenfell, mainly in the Emerging Market International Loans Department covering LATAM and Asia. From merchant banking, Chris moved to London Forfaiting where he spent more than a decade in various roles leading and covering a large variety of trade finance transactions across markets and through a number of global financial crises. Chris joined Exotix Partners, a specialist EM investment banking boutique, in 2003, where he led the loans and claims trading business, sourcing and placing transactions as diverse as Icelandic and Ukrainian assets. More recently, Chris was responsible for sourcing loans & claims and concluding trade finance transactions across emerging and other markets at the Swiss family office with George and Colin. Outside of work Chris is a keen gardener, countryside walker, and works with horses.
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