US hedge fund Aladdin Capital Holdings has appointed a former senior manager at Calyon, Neal Neilinger, as vice president and chief investment officer.

Mr Neilinger will be based in Aladdin’s

Stamford,
Connecticut headquarters and report directly to Amin Aladin (sic), chairman and chief executive of Aladdin.

Previously, Mr Neilinger was global head of credit sales, trading and syndicate in the

London office of Calyon, Crédit Agricole's corporate and investment banking entity. He was a founding partner at NSM Capital, an advisory and asset management business based in

Connecticut. In 1998, as a managing director at Deutsche Bank, he was responsible for the global credit activities of the bank.

In 2000, Mr Neilinger moved to Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, the investment banking arm of Dresdner Bank, where initially he was deputy head of the

Americas. In 2002, Mr Neilinger was transferred to

London, where he was a managing director in charge of the global debt syndication business for corporate clients. Earlier in his career, Mr Neilinger spent seven years with Lehman Brothers in
London as an executive director in charge of European credit trading and four years with Bear Stearns in

New York as a vice president.

Aladdin Capital Holdings has offices in North America,
Switzerland, the
UK,
Jersey,
Israel and

South Africa. The fund’s investment platform consists of teams with specialties including: high grade bonds, high yield bonds, leveraged bank loans, asset-backed securities, credit default swaps and structured credit investments.

The firm employs a group of 87 investment and support professionals globally through a product suite that includes credit-focused hedge funds, collateralized debt obligations and separate accounts totalling $16 billion in assets under management.