Blackstone Names Berger To Be London FoHF Chief

The Blackstone Group’s fund of hedge funds unit has named a New York managing director to head its five-year-old London office.

Gideon Berger, a member of the Blackstone Alternative Asset Management investment team, will move to the U.K. at the beginning of next year, where he will lead its business in Europe, the Middle East and Asia. He has been with the firm for four years.