Tara Simmons

Team Assistant and Front of House

Tara has over 7 years of administrative experience within the finance industry, supporting teams at investment firms and financial institutions. Prior to joining SIGNAL, Tara worked with Bridgepoint and Arbuthnot Latham, providing high-level team assistance and front-of-house support. Tara assists the Partners with office administration, event coordination, and day-to-day operations.

William St Clair

Director

Investor Relations

William has over ten years’ experience in asset management, having worked in institutional sales and consultant relations at PGIM Fixed Income, as well as in investor relations at Pictet Asset Management and Walter Scott & Partners.

William read Law at the University of Glasgow, graduating with an LLB (Hons).

Corin Dunn

Associate

Investor Relations

Corin has 5 years of investor relations and fundraising experience and has raised capital for a broad range of strategies, specialising in special situations and credit. Most recently, he worked at Spartan Advisors, raising capital and managing fundraise projects for GPs and hedge funds on a global basis. He began his career raising for the Titanbay feeder fund.

Corin has a Masters degree in Management from the University of Nottingham.

Caera Butler

CLO Operations Manager

Ceara serves as CLO Operations Manager at SIGNAL, overseeing all aspects of the firm’s CLO operations. Prior to joining SIGNAL, she spent over six years at the Bank of New York Mellon as a Client Services Manager within Corporate Trust and Operations, where she supported 20 top-tier CLO managers.

Ceara began her career as a public official within an Irish government department and holds an LLB (Hons) in Law from South East Technological University, Ireland.

Will Scrivens

Associate

Real Estate Investments

Will joined SIGNAL from the European Real Estate team at Aviva Investors across their pan-European core-plus Funds. His responsibilities included both asset and fund management of the existing portfolio, underwriting through to execution of new fund investments, as well as assisting in multiple capital raising strategies.

Will graduated with a BA in Land Economy from the University of Cambridge in 2021 and is a CFA Level III candidate.

Piotr Ossowicz

Senior Analyst

Credit Investments

Prior to joining SIGNAL, Piotr was Head of Research, European Special Situations at Serone Capital, and previously a Senior Analyst at Ironshield Capital. Before moving to the buy-side, he worked in Leveraged Finance at Credit Suisse and began his career at the Boston Consulting Group (BCG).

Piotr holds an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School.

Natasha Bours

Compliance and Operations Associate

Natasha is responsible for compliance support and operations. Prior to joining SIGNAL, Natasha worked at Noe Group as Compliance and Corporate Officer and spent five years at Langham Hall as a Compliance Associate.

She holds a Law degree from HELMO Saint-Martin in Belgium and a Master’s in Humanities from the University of Liège.

Tim Waterson

General Counsel and Head of Investment Structuring

Tim serves as the firm’s General Counsel and oversees the investment structuring across the investment team. He is responsible for the oversight of all legal and compliance matters at the firm.

Tim started his career as a lawyer at Slaughter and May, before working at Kirkland & Ellis and then Shearman & Sterling for 8 years. Tim also spent eighteen months on secondment at Barclays investment bank assisting in the structuring and execution of numerous leveraged finance transactions. At Shearman & Sterling, Tim focused on legal structuring and execution, primarily in the leveraged finance and special situations space.

Tim graduated from Birmingham University with a BA in Political Economy before going on to achieve an MSc in Economic History from Oxford University.

Tuan Thai

Managing Director & Deputy PM

Leveraged Credit

Tuan has over 24 years of experience in financial markets, spanning investment management, insurance and commercial lending.

Previously, he was an Executive Director at Tikehau Capital, focusing on credit research for CLOs and high yield funds. He has also served as portfolio manager, trader and senior credit analyst at Pinebridge Investments; as Head of Credit Research at Chorus Capital, a credit fund specialising in risk transfer transactions; and as a senior credit analyst focusing on distressed debt at Longacre. Before moving to London, Tuan was a Prokurist (senior manager) at Allianz in Germany where he led bond issuances and managed multi-billion euro credit lines.

Tuan has an MBA in Finance from Wharton and an MA in International Studies/German from the Lauder Institute at the University of Pennsylvania. He also holds a BA in Economics and German from Vanderbilt University and is a CFA charterholder.

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Toyosi Aganga

Investor Relations & Communications Manager

Toyosi joined SIGNAL from a European focused private equity fund where she was responsible for investor relations and fundraising activities. Prior to this, Toyosi spent 4.5 years as an investment professional with a leading $14 billion AUM global growth market private equity investor. Toyosi, was responsible for analysing and executing new investments and working directly with portfolio companies to implement growth drivers.

Toyosi began her career at Ernst & Young in London, she is a Fellow Chartered and Certified Accountant (FCCA) and holds a BSc. from the University of Warwick.

Tom Seymour Mead

Chief Financial Officer

Tom oversees all aspects of the finance functions for the firm and funds.

Tom started his career at Smith and Williamson where he qualified as a Chartered Accountant. He then spent 6 years at BlueBay Asset Management across various finance roles, latterly running finance and operations for the Direct Lending business. Prior to joining SIGNAL he spent 8 years at a number of hedge funds as CFO/COO.

Tom is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. He holds a BEng in Chemical Engineering from the University of Birmingham.

Stephen Kennedy

Director

Real Estate Investments

Stephen is responsible for deal structuring and execution for real estate investments within SIGNAL. Prior to joining the firm, Stephen spent more than 3 years as an associate in the Restructuring and Special Situations team in Latham & Watkins LLP’s London office, where he specialised in complex multi-jurisdictional restructurings involving multiple stakeholder groups across the capital structure. Previously, Stephen was an associate in the restructuring teams of Sidley Austin LLP and Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP.

Stephen graduated from Trinity College Dublin with a B.A. (Hons) degree in history in 2012 and qualified as a solicitor (England and Wales) in 2016.

Tavneet Bakshi

Partner

COO and Head of Investor Relations & Marketing

Prior to joining SIGNAL, Tavneet was a Partner at FIRSTavenue, where she managed the firm’s European business and led many of the firm’s private credit and infrastructure fundraisings. Prior to this, Tavneet worked with Pioneer Alternative Investments (Hong Kong), part of a global fund of funds, where she was responsible for Asian manager research and allocations. Tavneet began her career with Morgan Stanley in London and subsequently Hong Kong.  

Tavneet holds a BSc (hons) in Economics from the London School of Economics.

Investment Committee Member

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Rajat Mittal

Partner

Leveraged Credit

Rajat joined Signal as Head of Leveraged Credit after 15 years at BlueBay Asset Management, where he managed approximately $8bn in European leveraged finance assets. He consistently delivered returns above benchmark while maintaining strong risk and volatility characteristics.

Rajat also served as lead portfolio manager for BlueBay’s CLO funds, helping launch the firm’s CLO platform from 2019 to 2022

Before BlueBay, he worked in the Tactical Research Group at Goldman Sachs. Rajat holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Management (PGDM) from IIM Ahmedabad.

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Parm Samra

Head of Structured Credit Operations

Parm joined SIGNAL from Lodbrok Capital, bringing close to a decade of buy-side experience. He spent three years at Lodbrok as an Operations Manager and previously served as Primary TA at Decca Capital. Prior to that, Parm was a Portfolio Operations Specialist at Varde Partners, supporting the European Distressed Credit team for over three years.

He holds an MSc in Financial Computing from University College London.

Nick Waring

Partner

Credit Investments

Nick joined SIGNAL in March 2020 , bringing over 16 years of experience at Deutsche Bank, where he held various senior trading  positions , most recently Global Head of Securitized Trading and Head of European Investment Grade and High Yield trading. Nick has extensive experience trading and managing European Securitizations including RMBS, CLOs & CMBS, which he has done since 2009.

Prior to joining Deutsche Bank, Nick qualified as a Chartered Accountant (ACA) with PricewaterhouseCoopers. Nick holds an M.A in Politics, Philosophy & Economics from Oxford University.

Maxime Gerard

Manager of Luxembourg Operations

Prior to joining SIGNAL, Maxime worked as a Senior Associate in PwC Luxembourg specialising in the Real Estate industry.

Maxime graduated with a Masters in Management from Neoma Business School of Reims in 2019 with a major in Real Estate.

Liudmila Kuzmina

Director of Luxembourg Operations

Prior to joining SIGNAL, Liudmila worked as an Audit Manager in Deloitte Luxembourg specialising in Private equity and Real Estate. Liudmila brought over 7 years of experience in external audit in Russia and Europe.

Liudmila has a diploma in Accounting, Auditing and Financial analysis. She is a qualified member of Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA, UK), and a current student of Master of Business Administration (MBA) programme in Luxembourg.

Martina Spencer

Executive Assistant

At SIGNAL, Martina is EA to the Partners and responsible for office management and HR administration. Martina has over 8 years of EA experience in the finance industry, working for Hedge Funds and Asset Management. Prior to this, Martina worked in Bristol as an EA in Property Consultancy and Real Estate.

Lorenz Kroeber

Managing Director

Credit Investments

Prior to joining SIGNAL, Lorenz worked in the Special Situations Group at BlueMountain Capital Management. Before that, he spent five years in the European Distressed Investing Group at Goldman Sachs in London, focusing on investment opportunities across public and private capital markets. He began his career in investment banking at Moelis & Co.

Joanne Bywater

Associate

Real Estate Investments

Prior to joining SIGNAL, Joanne worked for 3.5 years in the European Advisory team at The Townsend Group, where she advised institutional investors on direct and indirect real estate investments, underwrote new fund investments with a focus on pan-European debt strategies, monitored existing investments, led client education initiatives, and spearheaded the firm’s European ESG efforts.

Joanne is a CFA charterholder and holds a BSc (hons) in Geography with Economics from The London School of Economics.

Henry Gray

Vice President

Real Estate Investments

Prior to joining SIGNAL, Henry spent 4 years in the Capital Advisors department at global real estate consultancy CBRE.

During his time there, he rotated between the Loan Recovery and Corporate Finance teams, before becoming a Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS).

During his last two years at CBRE, Henry worked in the Investment Advisory department, where he was responsible for underwriting and structuring development loans into UK real estate projects on behalf of a range of public and private sector clients, as well as ground rent acquisitions on behalf of a UK Institution.

Henry graduated with a BSc in Investment and Finance in Property from the University of Reading in 2016.

Henco Van Der Meulen

Senior Manager of Luxembourg Legal

Henco brings over 13 years of expertise in corporate law and governance, with a strong international background spanning South Africa, Malta, and Luxembourg. Prior to joining SIGNAL, Henco was with Burstone Group Limited, where he managed corporate governance and administration for the company’s European subsidiaries and served on the boards of its Luxembourg entities.

Henco holds both an LLB and an LLM from the University of Pretoria and is a qualified solicitor in England and Wales, as well as an advocate of the High Court of South Africa.

Gad Caspy

Founding Partner

Real Estate Investments

Gad Caspy leads the firm’s real estate investments, overseeing sourcing, underwriting, and portfolio management. Prior to founding the Firm, Gad was Head of European Commercial Real Estate for Deutsche Bank in London from 2011 to 2015 where he managed a team of 30 professionals. In addition to this role, he held other senior positions at Deutsche Bank including Head of US Illiquid Trading, Structured Credit Products in New York. Gad joined Deutsche Bank in 2002.

Gad graduated from Harvard Business School and holds degrees from Tel Aviv University Berglas School of Economics and Recanati School of Management.

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Gareth Richardson

Director

Real Estate Investments

Prior to joining SIGNAL, Gareth worked at Sabal Financial as Senior Vice President of NPL and Distressed Real Estate Acquisitions. From 2012 to 2016, he was an Asset Manager at Kennedy Wilson Europe, one of the most active direct real estate and NPL investors in the UK and Ireland, where he focused on origination, execution, and ongoing management of NPL transactions.

Gareth holds a Master’s in Bioinformatics and a BSc in Pharmacology from The University of Glasgow

Elad Shraga

Founding Partner

Chief Investment Officer

Prior to founding the firm, Elad was Global Head of Structured Finance at Deutsche Bank from 2009 to 2015. Under his leadership, DB’s Structured Finance group became the street’s most profitable structured business and was the largest contributor to DB’s Investment Bank profitability during the years 2012-2015 As a global business head, his responsibilities spanned the US, Europe and Asia, with a focus on activities such as Commercial Real Estate, ABS, Illiquid Credit, Special Situations and Principal Distressed. In addition, from 2012 until his 2015 departure, Elad was Co-Chairman of Deutsche Bank’s Market Risk Committee, the bank’s most senior market risk body, responsible for risk oversight across all financial markets and jurisdictions.

Prior to that role, Elad held other positions at Deutsche Bank including Head of Credit Solutions Group (2007 to 2009), Head of North America Principle Finance (2003 to 2007), and Head Proprietary Trader in the Bank’s Tel Aviv office (2000 to 2003).

Elad has a B.Sc. in Statistics from the University of Toronto, Canada.

Investment Committee Member

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Frederik Metze

Partner

Credit Investments

Prior to joining SIGNAL in 2015, Fredrik spent 8.5 years with Fortress Investment Group across Frankfurt, New York and London, where he served as Managing Director of the Credit Funds, leading Fortress’s distressed credit investing business in Europe. Prior to Fortress, Fredrik was Vice President in the Financial Restructuring Group of Houlihan Lokey in London and Frankfurt, advising companies, creditors and equity investors on out-of-court restructuring and recapitalization transactions, insolvency proceedings, financings and divestitures and acquisitions. Fredrik began his career with Arthur Andersen in Germany, working in assurance, business advisory and corporate finance. Fredrik holds a degree in Business Administration from Philipps-University in Marburg, Germany and is qualified as a CPA in the State of Illinois.

Danilo Barreto

Director  

Leveraged Credit

Danilo joins from Credit Suisse where he was a Senior Associate in the Leveraged Finance team, focused on the underwriting of leveraged loans for LBO, M&A, and refinancing transactions across EMEA. Prior to Credit Suisse, Danilo worked in the Special Situations M&A team at FTI Consulting and the Corporate Sector Advisory (TMT coverage) and Restructuring teams at NatWest. He started his career as an Analyst in the Brazilian investment bank BTG Pactual.

Danilo holds a Master’s in Finance from London Business School and a Bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering from Universidade Federal da Bahia (Brazil). He is also a CFA charterholder.

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Carlos Aguyao Martin

Director

Real Estate Investments

Carlos Aguayo is responsible for SIGNAL Real Estate transactions in the Iberian Peninsula.

Prior to joining SIGNAL, Carlos worked for Mabel Capital, a Spanish private capital investment firm, where he led the Real Estate Division, being responsible of investments and asset management, focusing on opportunistic/value added class assets. Prior to this, Carlos worked in PWC in the Corporate Finance Real Estate team, providing M&A and transactions services. Before that he also worked for real estate consultancy firms such as Colliers, Catella or CBRE, where he gained deep experience in real estate investment and valuations, specifically in hotels and retail.

Carlos is a Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS). He holds a Business Administration degree by Universidad Complutense of Madrid and the Program in Management of Real Estate Companies from the Insituto de Empresa (IE).

Amalan Sri

Fund Controller

Amalan is responsible for the accounting, cash management, and overall control functions for the closed ended vehicles.

Amalan has over 10 years of experience in the finance industry and has held similar roles with firms including CBRE, M7 Real Estate, Tristan Capital Partners, and Fiera Real Estate UK.

Amalan is a CIMA qualified accountant and graduated from Brunel University with a BSc Hons in Financial Computing.

Colman McCarthy

Partner

Real Estate Investments

Colman co-leads the Firm’s Real Estate investments and is responsible for origination and management of investments in the key target markets.

Prior to joining SIGNAL in 2015, Colman spent 4 years as Head of NPL Investments at Kennedy Wilson Europe, one of the most active direct real estate and NPL investors in the UK & Ireland. Colman was responsible for the origination, execution and ongoing management of over €2.5bn of investments over this period.

Before this, Colman was Head of Non-core Real Estate at Bank of Ireland in the UK with responsibility for managing the workout of the bank's UK loan book and prior to this was at Barclays Capital where he was responsible for origination and execution of pan-European real estate debt transactions; investment, development, senior and mezzanine.

Colman holds a postgraduate degree in Management from Oxford University and an undergraduate degree in Business & Economics from Trinity College, Dublin.

Amit Jain

Founding Partner

Credit Investments

Amit Jain leads the Firm’s credit investments, responsible for overseeing sourcing, underwriting, and portfolio management. Prior to joining SIGNAL, Amit spent over a decade at Deutsche Bank, where he served as Global Head of Structured Credit Trading, overseeing principal risk activities in Corporate and FIG Special Situations and Illiquid Asset Trading. He also managed Emerging Markets credit special situations books and traded credit derivatives in the Global Credit Trading division.
Earlier in his career, Amit worked at Lazard Frères & Co. in M&A advisory.

Amit graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a degree in Computer Science.

Investment Committee Member

Adnan Bey

Director

Leveraged Credit

Adnan has over ten years of experience in leveraged finance and joins from Napier Park Global Capital where he was part of the European Credit team. Adnan started his career at HSBC, London in the Financial Sponsors Group (M&A), before joining their Leveraged Finance Team.

Adnan has a Bachelor of Management and a Master of Finance from Université Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris.

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