Lehman Brothers today said that Mark Bourgeois will join the firm in May as managing director of its global institutional distribution unit, with a focus on alternative products.

Bourgeois will be based in New York and joins Eric Johnson, managing director, as co-head of global institutional distribution.

Most recently, Bourgeois led the UBS Private Funds Group for eight years.

“With Mark’s strong institutional relationships with limited and general partners, we are positioned to continue to aggressively build our diversified private equity, real estate, and hedge fund platform,” said Michael Odrich, managing director and global head of private equity.