Cathy Price
Head of Altum UK Trading
Cathy joined Altum in July 2012 as the Head of Altum UK, with 14 years of experience in the credit and structured credit markets. Prior to Altum, Cathy worked at RBS Asset Management, as the Portfolio Manager of a fund of credit hedge funds, with responsibilities also for all credit hedge fund investments. Upon the sale of RBS Asset Management, Cathy continued her role and responsibilities with the acquiring firm, Aberdeen Asset Management. Cathy began her career at Lehman Brothers in 1998 where she worked in the global structured credit products business until leaving in 2008. She initially worked in Lehman Brothers' Tokyo office, was transferred to New York in 2001 to focus on CDO structuring and then to London in 2005, where she ran European CLO structuring and origination. Cathy holds a PhD in Statistics (specializing in probability theory/stochastic calculus) and a BSc in Mathematics, both from the University of Warwick.
Alexei Kroujiline
Trading
Alexei joined Altum in September 2013 as a Senior Trader, with 11 years of experience in structured products. Prior to joining Altum, Alexei opened and headed a new European CLO trading desk at Citi London office from 2008, trading and making global daily markets in CLO bonds across the capital structure, and providing the related customer solution services. Alexei had joined the secondary global CDO trading desk at Citi in New York in 2004, where he traded cash and managed-synthetic CDOs across the asset types and
structures, including CLO, CBO, TRUPS CDO, SME CDO, CDO-squares and FoF vehicles. Alexei started his career in 2002, as a CDO research analyst at Salomon Smith Barney, providing investors with the post trade support and research publications. Alexei obtained an MA in Applied Math and Astrophysics from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and an MS in Economics from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.
Erik Suh, CFA
Trading Analysis
Erik joined Altum in September 2023 with three years of experience in quantitative consulting and business development. He is currently the firm’s Trading Desk Analyst. Prior to joining Altum, he worked as a Liquidity Associate on the Rates team at MarketAxess where he provided high frequency market participants strategy solutions for provision of liquidity. Erik holds an MBA with an Investment Analysis concentration and a BS in Finance from St. John’s University, and he is a CFA Charterholder.