Co-head of hedge fund seeding leaves Blackstone

Greg Hall Greg Hall, who co-leads Blackstone Group LP's hedge fund seeding and stakes funds, called Strategic Alliance and Strategic Capital Holdings, is leaving the firm after 12 years"to try something new," he told Bloomberg News.

Scott Soussa, who co-runs the seeding and stakes funds, will become the sole head of strategies. Blackstone has taken stakes in hedgefund firms such as Magnetar Capital Partners, Solus Alternative Asset Management and Senator Investment Group, and provided seed money to managers such as Chris Rokos and Peter Muller.

Hires at Albert Bridge, Ironwall, Roxbury

Former Perella Weinberg Partners' partner Andrew Dickson launchedhis equities hedge fund firm called Albert Bridge Capital in Q1, and now has four employees, according to eFinancial Careers: Stu Bohart, the former co-head of Morgan Stanley's asset management business and president of Fortress Investment Group's hedge fund unit, and David Grant, a former Fidelity equity analyst joined as advisors. DorianaPavlicu joins as COO and Charles Hwang joins as a partner, both from Perella Weinberg.

London-based Ironwall Capital Management, formedlast summer by Paul Brunsden, formerly COO at Abydos Capital Management, is building up its team before launch, eFinancial Careers: Greg Gliner, who was formerly a trader at AQR Capital and ......................

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