People Moves

Fund-of-hedge funds firm Tremont Capital Management has hired Barry Tannen as director of sales for U.S. financial institutions. Tannen will report to Robert Rosenbaum, a senior vice president and director of the investment advisor group.

Brad Briner has joined Morgan Creek Capital Management as a principal after working as an independent consultant since the firm opened in July 2004. Mike Hennessy, managing partner, said Briner worked with the firm's founders at the University of North Carolina. The firm was formed by Mark Yusko, former cio of the university.

The Managed Funds Association has hired Lisa McGreevy as executive vice president and chief operating officer, a new position. McGreevy joins the hedge fund industry association from The Financial Services Roundtable, where she was executive vice president of external affairs and president of the government affairs council.

Lynn MacDonald has been named global head of institutional marketing at Deutsche Asset Management. MacDonald, previously managing director for institutional marketing at Alliance Capital Management, will be responsible for developing a coordinated strategy for marketing the firm's worldwide platform. She will report to Roelfien Kuijpers, global head of institutional business and global head of marketing for the firm.

Ronald Klotter was named principal and senior consultant at Chicago-based consulting firm Ellwood Associates. Klotter, previously director of equity product management at Wellington Management Company and director of marketing at INVESCO, will work with new and existing clients at the firm and also provide research on non-traditional managers.

GSC Partners has appointed Michael Lynch as senior managing director. Lynch has been a member of GSC's Board of Advisors since March 2005 and will continue to serve as the chairman of the firm's Strategic Initiatives Committee, as well as an Investment Committee member for the GSC Credit Strategies Fund and the GSC European mezzanine funds.

Before joining GSC, Lynch spent approximately 30 years with Goldman, Sachs & Co., where he served as a member of that firm's investment banking division and was elected partner in 1986.

New York-based private equity firm Castle Harlan has promoted Justin Wender to the role of president of the firm. He succeeds Leonard Harlan, who will continue to serve as chairman of the newly-formed executive committee.

In June 2004, Wender was named chief investment officer and a senior managing director. He has been with Castle Harlan since 1993, during which time the firm invested three funds totaling approximately $2 billion.

Financial firm Jefferies & Company has hired Mark O'Donnell to the newly-created position of head of structured products within the firm's equities department. O'Donnell will work closely with Alex Wohl, who recently joined the firm as head of equity derivatives trading from Goldman Sachs. The pair has been tasked with building up Jefferies' structured products offerings, including equity swaps and over-the-counter options, equity-linked investment products and other structured products related to hedge funds.

Private equity firm The Riverside Company has hired Jeff Tobin and Matt Schafer as operating partners. The two will join the firm's micro-cap strategy team and will report to Ron Sansom, senior operating partner.

In their new roles, Tobin and Schafer will provide strategic and operational support to micro-cap companies during Riverside's period of ownership.

Quantitative hedge fund shop Copernicus International has spent the last few months building up its investment team, recently adding to its ranks with the hire of Chief Risk Officer Neil Kochen, who previously held the same position for ING, where he was responsible for $160 billion in assets. Copernicus is also ramping up efforts to increase assets in its market neutral product, one of three hedge funds it manages.