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People: Mehmet Dalman joins Toscafund as Vice Chairman and Partner, Dr. Guido Bolliger now Co-CIO at Olympia Capital Management, UK hedge fund Ermitage adds pension fund specialist John Rushen as director, 3A Alternative Investments hires Claire Locher as SVP

Friday, June 20, 2008

Mehmet Dalman joins Toscafund as Vice Chairman and Partner Toscafund has appointed Mehmet Dalman as Vice Chairman. He will also become a director of Old Oak Holdings, Toscafund's parent company, joining Martin Hughes, Michael Kerr-Dineen, Sir George Mathewson and John McFarlane on the company's board.

Mehmet Dalman is CEO of the WMG Group, which he founded in 2004. Previously he was head of Investment Banking and a member of the board of managing directors of Commerzbank AG.

Dr. Guido Bolliger now Co-CIO at Olympia Capital Management Dr. Guido Bolliger has been appointed as Co-CIO of Olympia Capital Management. He reports to Marc L. Landeau, founder and CIO.

Guido joined Olympia from Julius Baer (Zurich) in January 2006 as Head of Risk. In 2007 he took over the responsibility for all the Quantitative Analysis and was subsequently promoted to Deputy CIO where he focused on portfolio construction. Kostas Iordanidis, former Co-CIO will be leaving the Group effective August 31st 2008.

Founded in 1989, Olympia Capital Management is an independent fund of hedge funds manager with $6 billion under management. Olympia Capital Management has an international presence, with over 80 people in Paris, New York, London, Zurich and Hong Kong and an investment team composed of over 20 professionals with more than 10 years of experience on average. In addition to its flagship fund, Olympia Star I with a 17-year track record, Olympia offers inv......................

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