BNP Paribas has appointed Peter Albano as head of Investor Relationship Management for Hedge Funds and Institutions, Americas (IRM.) Peter is based in New York and reports locally to Chris Innes, head of Equity Sales, North America and Kip Testwuide, head of Fixed Income Origination and Distribution, Americas. He also reports globally to Talbot Stark, global head of Investor Relationship Management for Hedge Funds and Institutions.
Peter joins BNP Paribas with over twenty years of international capital markets experience, most recently with The Royal Bank of Scotland as head of Financial Institutions, Americas. Prior, he was with Bear Stearns for seventeen years where he held senior management roles in Fixed Income sales and trading, ultimately responsible for Credit Sales for the Americas and Emerging Markets Sales globally.
Robert Earl also joins BNP Paribas as a managing director focusing on Hedge Funds. He reports to Chris Lane, head of the Americas Hedge Fund relationship management team. Robert has 19 years of capital markets experience focusing on institutional client relationships. He began his career at Goldman Sachs before joining Barclays Capital and later co-launching Vernon Square Capital. Chantale Goyette also joins the IRM team as a relationship manager for Canada. She joined BNP Paribas in 2007 and has since served in Fixed Income rates and structured credit sales positions.
Commenting on the appointments, Talbot Stark said, "We look forward to further growing our client business in the global spectrum under the leadership of Peter and with the addition of Robert and Chantale. BNP Paribas' client business has benefited from its expanding international capabilities, financial strength and the 2008 purchase of Bank of America's prime brokerage unit."
BNP Paribas continues to experience strong global growth across its institutional and hedge fund client franchise. "We continue to invest in our Fixed Income, Equities and Commodity businesses in the Americas and an integral part of the client franchise is our Investor Relationship Management team," commented Ed Speal, Head of Global Equities and Commodity Derivatives. BNP Paribas has over twenty senior relationship management professional located in New York, Montreal, San Francisco, London, Paris, Hong Kong and Singapore serving the interests of its global hedge fund and institutional clients.
