Galia Velimukhametova

Galia Velimukhametova joined GLG in June 2008 as a Portfolio Manager working alongside Steve Roth on the GLG Market Neutral Fund. She joined GLG from King Street Capital where she was a Managing Director and a Member of the Investment Committee and responsible for investment selection and portfolio composition. She was also responsible for launching the European Office of the 15bn multi-strategy U.S. based hedge fund. Prior to this, Galia was at JPMorgan for almost 7 years and spent the latter half of her time there working as a Debt/Equity and Capital Structure Arbitrage Trader, where she managed a proprietary trading book and analysed and invested in distressed situations (with experience restructuring financial distressed credit). Prior to JPMorgan, Galia held positions in the Emerging Markets Groups at Baring Asset Management and Rothschild Asset Management. Galia received an MBA from Washington University, St Louis in 1995 and an Honours degree in Economics from Moscow.