Mr. Aaron Nieman, a senior managing director joined Blackstone from S.A.C. Capital Management, where he was a managing director in the Canvas Capital Management division. At S.A.C., Mr. Nieman created an investment team responsible for merger arbitrage and event-driven investments in the Asia Pacific region. Before that, Mr. Nieman was largely responsible for building Lehman Brothers’ global trading strategies division focusing on Asia Pacific investments.
Mr. Nieman began his career at Lehman Brothers in New York. Mr. Nieman has recruited an experienced and talented team of investment professionals to Altius, including Christopher Pesce as chief operating officer. Mr. Pesce was formerly global head of prime brokerage at Bank of America and, before that, with Goldman Sachs both in New York and Hong Kong.-B
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