Mr. Fish will be based in Aladdin’s Stamford Connecticut headquarters and report directly to Neal Neilinger, Vice-Chairman and Chief Investment Officer of Aladdin. According to Mr. Neilinger:

“Aladdin is systematically taking steps to expand its platform for what we see are new opportunities in the marketplace. Bill Fish is a well known, highly respected loan market veteran with an impeccable track record and we see this as a very significant hire for Aladdin”.

Previously, Mr. Fish was with Dresdner Kleinwort as Head of Global Loans and Transaction Services and a member of the Executive Committee. In this role, Mr. Fish oversaw all international lending, leverage finance, loan syndications, loan sales and trading, trade finance, correspondent banking, and international cash management. Mr. Fish moved to Dresdner Kleinwort in 2001 from Citigroup where he was a Managing Director and Head of Loan Sales and Syndications. Mr. Fish spent 15 years at Citigroup holding a number of senior positions in Citigroup’s loan syndications business on a variation of assignments in Los Angeles and New York.