EMEA Capital, an independent asset manager with offices in the United Kingdom and Switzerland, has appointed Can Uran as managing partner and chief investment officer.
EMEA Capital, an independent asset manager with offices in the United Kingdom and Switzerland, has appointed Can Uran as managing partner and chief investment officer.
Uran will work alongside EMEA Capital's managing partner and chief executive officer, Osman Semerci, in the firm's London office.
He joins EMEA Capital from UBS where he was global co-head of emerging markets trading for three years, responsible for all credit, rates and foreign exchange products in Latin America, Central/Eastern Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia. He was also a member of the global fixed income, currencies and commodities executive committee.
Between 2007 and 2010, he worked at Merrill Lynch, latterly running emerging markets credit trading for Central/Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa.
Prior to Merrill Lynch, Uran spent 11 years at Goldman Sachs in buy-side and sell-side trading roles including head of capital structure trading, head of credit and convertibles trading for Asia, Japan and Australia and head of illiquid credit trading for Europe.