Our Team

Management Committee

Alistair Lumsden

Chief Executive Officer & Chief Investment Officer

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PRIOR EXPERIENCE

Chief Investment Officer of Asset Backed Securities, CQS, 2006-2012
Member of CQS Executive Committee & Risk Management Committee
Launched CQS ABS Fund in October 2006; Managed $3.2 billion AUM
Executive Director and Senior Asset Manager, Vehicle Management Group, Rabobank International, 2001-2006
Founding member of $10 billion Structured Investment Vehicle (Tango)
Managed $15 billion global mortgage business, Abbey National Treasury
Services, 1993-2001
Barclays, 1987-1989
BSc (Hons)1^stClass, Business and Management Studies, University of Bradford

Ken Towers

Chief Financial Officer

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PRIOR EXPERIENCE

European Head of Balance Sheet Management, Rabobank, 2000-2015
Bank nominated Trustee Director of Rabobank’s Employee Pension Fund
Founding member of $10 billion Structured Investment Vehicle (Tango)
Head of Risk Management & Treasury, Gordian Knot, 1997-1999
BSc (Hons) 1st Class, Computer Science, Swansea University

Quinn Fionda

Global Head of Business Development and Investor Relations

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PRIOR EXPERIENCE

Head of Business Development and Investor Relations, Isomer Partners, 2019-2022
Head of Business Development and Investor Relations, Scopia Capital, 2009-2019
Vice President, Highbridge Capital, 2007-2009
Investment Banking Associate, Morgan Stanley, 2003-2007
U.S. Navy SEAL, 1997-2003
MBA, Tuck School of Business (Dartmouth College)
Bachelor of Science with a Minor in Russian, United States Naval Academy

Julian Versteeg

General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer and MLRO

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PRIOR EXPERIENCE

Chief Operating Officer & Legal Counsel, Demica Finance Limited, 2018-2019
Senior Counsel, Chenavari Financial Group, 2014-2017
Vice President, Bank of New York Mellon, 2011-2014
Senior Associate, Standard Bank Plc, 2007-2011
Solicitor, Clifford Chance, 2000-2007
BA History, University of Birmingham

Portfolio Managers

Joshua Krasner

Portfolio Manager

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Aaron Malik

Portfolio Manager

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Rob Riley

Portfolio Manager

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Justin Ryan

Portfolio Manager

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Alistair Lumsden, Chief Executive Officer & Chief Investment Officer

Mr. Lumsden is the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer of East Lodge Capital Partners LLP (“ELC”). He chairs ELC’s Investment Committee and is a member of the firm’s Management Committee and Risk Management Committee. Mr. Lumsden has over 28 years of investment experience, and he is responsible for overseeing all investment decisions for the firm. Prior to founding ELC, Mr. Lumsden was the Chief Investment Officer of Asset Backed Securities at CQS and a member of CQS’ Executive Committee and Risk Management Committee. While at CQS, Mr. Lumsden established the firm’s global Asset Backed Securities business for which he built an 11-person team and oversaw $3.2 billion in assets, including the $2.3 billion CQS ABS Fund and ~$900 million in custom mandates for institutional investors. Prior to CQS, Mr. Lumsden was an Executive Director and Senior Asset Manager of the Vehicle Management Group at Rabobank International, where he was a founding member of a three-person management team responsible for structuring, launching and running a third party Structured Investment Vehicle called Tango. He helped grow Tango to a $10 billion business before leaving to join CQS in 2006. Mr. Lumsden began his career at Abbey National Treasury Services in 1993 where he was responsible for developing the firm’s US Subprime strategy, and later took over management of global mortgage products and other ABS strategies, a $15 billion business. Mr. Lumsden obtained a BSc (Hons) 1st Class in Business and Management Studies from the University of Bradford.

Ken Towers, Chief Financial Officer

Mr. Towers is Chief Financial Officer at ELC and is a member of the Firm’s Management Committee. He has over 26 years of experience in the financial services industry, over half of which has been in structured credit. Prior to joining ELC, Mr. Towers spent close to 14 years with Rabobank where he was most recently Managing Director, European Head of Balance Sheet Management (Treasury) and a bank nominated Trustee Director of Rabobank’s London employee pension fund. During his time at Rabobank, Mr. Towers was a founding member of a three-person management team responsible for structuring, launching and running a third party Structured Investment Vehicle called Tango, along with Mr. Lumsden. Mr. Towers also held positions within Treasury, Financial Markets and Corporate Banking at Rabobank, with responsibility for Balance Sheet Management, Liability Management, Portfolio Management, Structuring, and Governance. Previously, Mr. Towers spent 8 years at Gordian Knot, where he served initially as a systems designer before moving on to lead the Risk Management and Treasury functions. Mr. Towers holds a BSc (Hons) 1st Class in Computer Science from Swansea University.

Quinn Fionda, Global Head of Business Development and Investor Relations

Mr. Fionda is the Global Head of Business Development and Investor Relations at East Lodge Capital and a member of the Firm’s Management Committee. With over 25 years of financial and leadership experience, he is responsible for the Firm’s Business Development and Investor Relations business globally. Prior to joining ELC, he held the same role at Isomer Partners, an investment management firm focused on the Consumer and Technology sectors. From 2009 to 2019, Mr. Fionda was the Head of Business Development and Investor Relations at Scopia Capital Management where he led a team of five professionals and expanded the Firm’s product offerings and structuring, building the Firm into a multi-billion alternative asset manager. Before joining Scopia, he was a Vice President at Highbridge Capital Management where he focused on business and product development. From 2003 to 2007, Mr. Fionda worked at Morgan Stanley within the investment banking division. Prior to Morgan Stanley, Mr. Fionda served as a U.S. Navy SEAL for six years. He earned a Master of Business Administration from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and a Bachelor of Science and a Minor in Russian from the United States Naval Academy. He is a Life Member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a Board Member Emeritus of the Navy SEAL Foundation. He resides in Manhattan with his family.

Julian Versteeg, General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer and MLRO

Mr. Versteeg is General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer and MLRO at East Lodge Capital. Mr. Versteeg was admitted as a solicitor at Clifford Chance in 2002 and has spent over 20 years working in financial services and is a member of AIMA’s Securitization and Alternative Credit Working Groups. Mr. Versteeg left Clifford Chance as a Senior Associate to join Standard Bank’s emerging markets mortgage trading desk. He then joined BNYM, focusing predominantly on Lloyds TSB, Santander, Barclays, and RBS’s securitization and covered bond platforms and led their EMEA document standards project. For his activities, he received the global BNYM “above and award” firm award. At Chenavari, Mr. Versteeg held legal functional responsibility for the firm’s flagship fund (Toro Limited), the firm’s public CLO manager and private cash/synthetic loan trading platforms, the firm’s USD1.5bn Luxembourg securitization vehicle (Areo), and its commodity financings and consumer asset direct lending and private equity consumer finance investments. Before joining East Lodge Capital, Mr. Versteeg assisted Demica in building a new division providing an investment platform for a large global insurer. Mr. Versteeg is regulated by the Solicitors Regulatory Authority and is an Approved Person by the Financial Conduct Authority. Mr. Versteeg holds a BA in History from the University of Birmingham, was a 1996 ESU Capitol Hill Scholar and as part of the UN 2005 Year of Microfinance was a founding member the London Microfinance Club, now the UK’s Financial Inclusion Forum.

Joshua Krasner, Portfolio Manager

Portfolio Manager at ELC focusing on the firm’s private credit and specialty finance business, specifically on structuring and sourcing deals.
Mr. Krasner has 20 years of experience in structured finance and derivatives.
Prior to joining East Lodge, he worked at UBS AG for 15 years where he focused on de-risking the legacy portfolio of structured finance assets, including RMBS, CMBS and CDOs, as well as private credit and equity.
Prior to this he worked in the Derivatives group at Clifford Chance, based in London and New York.
LLB (Hons) in Law from University College London and is admitted both as a Solicitor in England & Wales and as a New York Attorney.

Aaron Malik, Portfolio Manager

Portfolio Manager at ELC focusing on European ABS markets.
Mr. Mailk has over 20 years experience in financial services, primarily in structured credit.
Prior to joining East Lodge, Mr. Malik spent 14 years at CQS as a Partner and Senior Portfolio Manager, responsible for US RMBS, US CLOs, European ABS portfolios as well as portfolio construction and hedging strategies.
Before this, Mr. Malik was a Quantitative Analyst at Fitch Ratings.
Mr. Malik started his career as an IT Risk Management Analyst for Dresdner Kleinwort Benson.
BSc -1st Class, Mathematics and Computer Science, Imperial College – MSc Distinction in Mathematics, Trading and Finance from Bayes Business School (formally Cass Business School)

Rob Riley, Portfolio Manager

Portfolio Manager at ELC focusing on European CMBS markets.
Mr. Riley has over 18 years of experience in the financial services industry.
Prior to joining East Lodge, Mr. Riley was a Portfolio Manager for CMBS and Commercial Real Estate debt investments at HSBC, responsible for managing a portfolio of $7 billion in UK, European and US CMBS bonds.
Before this, Mr. Riley was a CMBS Structured Finance Ratings Analyst at Standard & Poor’s in London.
Mr Riley started his career valuing commercial real estate at Colliers CRE, covering retail, shopping centres, offices and industrial distribution units.
BSc – 1^st Class (Hons), Valuation Surveying, Staffordshire University.
Fully qualified member of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors.

Justin Ryan, Portfolio Manager

Portfolio Manager at ELC focusing on US RMBS.
Mr. Ryan has over 14 years of experience in the financial services industry.
Prior to joining East Lodge, Mr. Ryan was an ABS Analyst at CQS, where he was responsible for analytics, model development, surveillance and trading of US Alt-A, pay-option ARM and subprime assets.
Before this, Mr. Ryan was in the Structured Finance Advisory Services group at EY in New York where he focused on residential mortgage loan file due diligence and cash flow modelling for RMBS-issuer clients.
BS, Applied Economics, Ithaca College.