Stamford, Connecticut – Monday 6th July 2009: Commensurate with the firm’s continued expansion, Aladdin Capital Holdings LLC (“Aladdin”) today announces the appointment of Carlyle Peake as Chief Operating Officer (“COO”) of Aladdin Capital LLC and Global Head of Syndicate for the firm. Mr. Peake joins Aladdin from Merrill Lynch where he was Managing Director and Head of Emerging Markets Syndicate.

Mr. Peake will be based in Aladdin’s Stamford, Connecticut offices and report directly to Neal Neilinger, Vice-Chairman and Chief Investment Officer of Aladdin and Steve Mandella, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer of Aladdin Capital Holdings.  

According to Mr. Neilinger:
“We are delighted Carlyle has joined the team. His depth of experience will be an invaluable asset to Aladdin as we build out the sales and trading division of our business and help position us for sustained and scalable growth.”

Mr. Peake added, “Aladdin has an extremely impressive, diverse and growing platform of products and services globally. I am looking forward to helping the firm and its clients utilize this platform to capitalize on attractive market opportunities and growth.”

Previously, Mr. Peake was at Dresdner Kleinwort from 2004-2007 as Managing Director and Global Head of Syndicate where he was responsible for the origination, structuring, marketing, pricing and execution of all investment grade, corporate, financial, high yield and emerging market issuance. Mr. Peake started his career at Merrill Lynch in 1993 on the Emerging Market Syndicate desk and has held a variety of senior capital markets roles and functions globally including senior posts in London, New York, Hong Kong and Los Angeles. Mr. Peake has a B.A. in Economics from Harvard University.