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Gary Cressman was appointed to the Board in January 2009. A Fund Adviser with over 15 years experience in the emerging markets, Mr. Cressman has traveled, studied and traded in most emerging markets and has extensive experience of various distressed assets. Prior to joining Bridge Asset Management LLP, Mr. Cressman was one of the 2 founders of Argo Capital Management Limited and remained an owner of the business until May 2005. He was a fund adviser of The Argo Fund, an emerging markets fixed income and distressed debt fund, from its inception in 2000 until May 2005. Mr. Cressman was also involved in the creation of the Argo Global Special Situations Fund in 2004, a new fund established to exploit emerging markets convertible debt and equity investments. He has been privately investing since leaving Argo in 2005.
Prior to founding Argo in 2000 Mr. Cressman worked as head trader for Banco Santander de Negocios in London. This involved the secondary trading of sovereign and corporate bonds in Eastern Europe and the CIS as well as syndications and the origination of a Croatian Sovereign Peseta Bond.
From 1994 to 1997 Mr. Cressman was at Santander Investment Securities in New York trading the sovereign debt of Mexico, Ecuador, Panama and Peru. Between 1991 and 1994 he worked at Banco Santander de Negocios in Madrid on a proprietary desk concentrating on sovereign debt restructurings of both Latin American and Eastern European Debt.
Before graduating from MBA school at IESE in Barcelona in 1990, Mr.Cressman worked in fund management at Singer and Friedlander in London for two years. He holds a degree in Economics from Durham University (1986). | 