Ari Epstein

Ari Epstein joined Coopers & Lybrand in 1996 after gaining a degree in Management Sciences at UMIST. He relocated to their New York office in 1999 where he specialised in Financial Services. In 2000, he was hired by Salomon Brothers to join their High Yield and Leverage Finance Capital Markets Group back in London where he became a Vice President with responsibility for originating and structuring high yield bonds and leverage loans for corporate clients and private equity firms. In 2005 he resigned from Salomon Brothers (then Citigroup) and was hired by Millennium Capital Partners as a senior credit analyst responsible for analysing and trading non-investment grade fixed income products. He became a partner in 2007. He resigned in July 2008 to join Belvedere Investment Partners as a Partner and Portfolio Manager for Belvedere Credit Fund. He left Belvedere in March 2009 and together with Mervyn Hughes formed Berkeley Asset Management LLP to manage non-investment grade credit strategies.