Alex Gitnik, PhD, Managing Director, joined the firm in 2017. Alex is a Client Portfolio Manager on the Fixed Income team, where he represents the broad range of the firm’s fixed income strategies in the institutional and intermediary marketplaces across the EMEA region. Prior to joining the firm, Alex worked at Standard Life Investments, where he was the Investment Director/Senior Global Investment Specialist for Fixed Income and Absolute Return. Before that, Alex was at Wellington Management working as a Portfolio Specialist for their Global Credit and Absolute Bond suite of strategies. He began his career in 1997, having spent time at a number of banks in a variety of Fixed Income roles. Alex earned an MBA from The Wharton School of Business and holds a PhD and MS in Economics from Saratov State Socio-Economic University.