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Deputy Chief Investment Officer
18 Years Experience | Located in London
Mr. Meier brings more than 18 years of investment experience to Gramercy. He is Deputy Chief Investment Officer responsible for Public Markets and Multi-Asset Strategies. Based out of the London office, Mr. Meier is also an integral part of expanding the firm’s coverage of CEEMEA and Asia and serves as a member of Gramercy’s Management Team, Global Investment Committee, Public Credit Investment Committee, Global Research Committee and Top-Down View Committee.
Prior to joining Gramercy, Mr. Meier spent nearly five years at Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM) where he was a senior member of the Emerging Markets Debt Portfolio Management Team. In addition to LGIM, Mr. Meier’s emerging markets credit experience includes time with AXA Investment Managers as Senior Portfolio Manager, Emerging Markets Fixed Income, in London. He began his emerging markets credit investing career with Deutsche Asset Management in Frankfurt.
Mr. Meier graduated from the European Business School in Germany and holds an MBA-equivalent (“Diplom-Kaufmann”) in Finance & Banking.
Managing Director | Portfolio Manager
Emerging Markets Debt Portfolio Manager
23 Years Exp. | Located in Greenwich
Ms. Hill has 23 years of investment and research experience. She is a Portfolio Manager for Gramercy’s long-only EMD strategies. Ms. Hill also serves as a member of Gramercy’s Global Investment Committee, Public Credit Investment Committee, Global Research Committee and Top-Down View Committee.
Prior to joining Gramercy, Ms. Hill spent three years as an Emerging Markets Analyst at Apollo Global Management. At Apollo, she analyzed sovereign, quasi-sovereign, and corporate issuers across all sectors and was also responsible for sourcing and evaluating new strategic initiatives and private opportunities. Prior to Apollo, Ms. Hill worked at Schroders Investment Management for two years as an Emerging Markets Corporate Credit Analyst. There she conducted fundamental research on investment grade and high yield credit across all sectors. She also provided various portfolio managers with value-add actionable trading recommendations for Latin America based on fundamental and relative value analysis. Ms. Hill also worked at HPP, PepsiCo and Credit Suisse.
Ms. Hill received her BA in Business Administration from Georgetown University where she graduated Cum Laude. Additionally, Ms. Hill is a CFA Charterholder.
Managing director
Chief Strategist
29 Years Exp. | Located in London
Mr. Quijano-Evans joined Gramercy in 2024 as Managing Director, Chief Strategist. He brings over 25 years of experience in emerging markets, macroeconomic analysis, and financial markets to Gramercy.
Prior to Gramercy, Mr. Quijano-Evans served as Chief Economist at Gemcorp Capital. Prior to that, he was LGIM’s EM Strategist. Mr. Quijano-Evans has also led research teams at ING, Commerzbank, Credit Agricole and UniCredit.
In addition, he has worked in investment promotion for the Thai Ministry of Industry and as an Economist at IIASA analyzing the macroeconomic effects of natural disasters.
Mr. Quijano-Evans holds a Doctorate in Economics from the University of Vienna and has written a book on Turkey.
Managing director
Head of Trading
27 Years Exp. | Located in Greenwich
Mr. De Natale has 27 years of industry experience. At Gramercy, Mr. De Natale runs the firms centralized trading desk, specializing in distressed and performing credit. He also assists with Gramery’s dynamic hedging program across all strategies.
Prior to joining Gramercy in September 2006, Mr. De Natale was the Manager for the U.S. Daily Fund Accounting Group for S.A.C. Capital Advisors, LLC, a multistrat hedge fund based in Stamford, CT where he was accountable for the proper and accurate reconciliation of the firm’s books and records. Previously, he worked as an operations analyst at S.A.C. Capital responsible for trade correction, corporate actions, margin and reconciliation for fixed income, U.S. equity and CDS products. From 2001 to 2003, Mr. De Natale was the Operations Manager for Hammond Inc., a private equity fund specializing in U.S. equities.
Mr. De Natale received a BA in Geography from the University of Delaware.
director | Co-Head of Sovereign Research
Region: Global
16 Years Exp. | Located in Greenwich
Mr. Atanasov has 16 years of industry experience and is responsible for the firm’s research coverage and trade idea generation with respect to global sovereigns. He also serves as a member of Gramercy’s Global Research Committee and Top-Down View Committee.
Prior to joining Gramercy, Mr. Atanasov was an Associate Analyst in the Sovereign Risk Group at Moody’s Investors Service. In that role, he authored research on developments impacting sovereign credit quality, oversaw data collection for Moody’s semi-annual Country Statistics Handbook, and participated in sovereign rating committees. Mr. Atanasov was also responsible for communicating sovereign risk group views in investor briefings and discussions with policymakers. Prior to Moody’s, Mr. Atanasov was an Emerging Markets Macroeconomic Analyst at Roubini Global Economics and an Associate at Ernst and Young LLP.
Mr. Atanasov received a dual MA in International Finance and Economics from Columbia University and Public Policy from National University of Singapore. He received a dual BA in Business, Organizations, and Society and International Politics from Franklin and Marshall College, where he graduated magna cum laude.
director | Co-Head of Sovereign Research
Region: Global
15 Years Exp. | Located in Greenwich
Ms. Exum has 15 years of industry experience and is responsible for the firm’s research coverage and trade idea generation with respect to global sovereigns. She also serves as a member of Gramercy’s Global Research Committee and Top-Down View Committee.
Prior to joining Gramercy, Ms. Exum was an Associate in Country Risk Management at J.P. Morgan. She was responsible for evaluating sovereign risks and internal credit ratings through macroeconomic and political analysis on a portfolio of countries. Ms. Exum also conducted robust in-country due diligence for annual internal sovereign ratings assessment. Additionally, she wrote, presented and distributed analytical research reports at a high frequency on economic and political events in the context of the potential impact on internal risk ratings, exposure, and limits.
Ms. Exum received a BA in Economics, with a double minor in Public Policy and Psychology, from Hobart and William Smith Colleges where she graduated magna cum laude. Ms. Exum has achieved the CFA Institute Certificate in ESG Investing.
director | DEPUTY PORTFOLIO MANAGER
Region: Global
Focus: Financials
18 Years Exp. | Located in London
Mr. Wright has 18 years of industry experience and serves as a Director, based out of Gramercy’s London Office. Mr. Wright is responsible for the firm’s research coverage and trade idea generation with respect to global financials. He also serves as member of the Global Research Committee.
Prior to Gramercy, Mr. Wright was at UBS as a Fixed Income Syndicate Manager and Barclays Investment Bank as Head of Financial Institutions Fixed Income Syndicate. After leaving Barclays Mr. Wright worked at S&P Global as a Credit Analyst responsible for ratings, credit analysis and relationship management of a portfolio of Financial Institutions. More recently, he was a Financials Credit Analyst, EMD with Aviva Investors responsible for CEEMEA and LATAM Financial Institutions coverage for Emerging Markets Debt funds.
Mr. Wright received a BA (Hons) in Business Economics from Durham University and a MSc in Global Central Banking and Financial Regulation from Warwick Business School (in association with the Bank of England).
Vice President | Latam Analyst
Region: LatAm
Focus: Generalist
10 Years Exp. | Located in London
Berta joined Gramercy in January 2025 as LatAm Analyst based in our London office. Berta is responsible for covering Latin American corporate credits and generating trade ideas for Gramercy’s EMD Team.
Prior to joining Gramercy, Berta was with AXA Investment Managers for four years as a buy-side emerging markets Analyst. During her tenure there, she closely monitored portfolio investments in corporate fixed income, analyzed new investment opportunities, wrote proprietary research on industries and companies, and assisted with coverage for Latin America, Turkey, and CEE. Berta also spent six years at Moody’s as an Associate Analyst. There, she conducted credit risk analysis for investment grade and high yield portfolios across the GCC, Turkey, Africa, and Europe.
Berta is a native Spanish speaker and holds a Master’s in Finance and Banking from Tilburg School of Economics and Management, as well as a Bachelor’s in Business Administration from ESADE Business School, Universidad Ramon Llull. Additionally, she is a CFA Charterholder.
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