Gottex Fund Management Holdings Limited has announced that Debra Rothman has joined Gottex as Managing Director, Head of North American Sales and Marketing and Mark Oestergaard has joined Gottex as Marketing Director in Europe.

At Gottex Debra Rothman will be based in Boston and play an active and leading
role in marketing and business development in North America. She has a background in consulting relations, sales, and product development and most recently was Head of Business Development at SCS Financial, leading the expansion of their fund of hedge funds effort. During her 25 year career, she has held senior roles with Robeco Investment Management, Putnam Investments and Price Waterhouse.

Mark Oestergaard will be based in London focused on sourcing and servicing Northern-European opportunities. He has over 15 years of experience serving the institutional investor marketplace as an institutional sales professional and was most recently with asset management company London and Capital, where he worked closely with the Nordic institutions. Prior to this Mr. Oestergaard spent four years in the institutional investment business with HSH Nordbanks Nordic brokerage arm heading up the institutional business on the equity cash side.

“Hiring marketing professionals of the highest calibre is vital to our continued success.” commented Max Gottschalk, Global Head of Marketing of Gottex. “We are delighted to welcome Debra and Mark to Gottex. With their extensive marketing and relationship management experience, they will augment an already strong team.”

Dr Bill Landes, Senior Managing Director of Gottex based in Boston, commented: “We are very pleased to welcome Debra and Mark to Gottex, who, with their broad marketing expertise, will be essential to our growth plans in North-America and Europe.”