Liontrust Asset Management PLC announced that Two new senior hires: Mark Hawtin - and his three-strong team - to join in May as Head of Global Growth Equities and Jeremy Roberts to join in April as Head of Global Distribution (ex-UK). Appointment of Kristian Cook as Head of UK Distribution and bringing single strategy and multi-asset distribution into one UK sales team. Mark Hawtin has 37 years of investment experience and is currently an Investment Director and leads the Global Growth Equity team at GAM Investments.

He is responsible for running global long only and long/short funds investing in disruptive growth and technology. Prior to joining GAM in 2008, Mark was a partner and portfolio manager with Marshall Wace Asset Management for eight years,including managing one of Europe's largest technology, media and telecoms hedge funds.David Goodman,Kevin Kruczynskiand Pieran Maru, who work for Mark at GAM Investments, will also be joining Liontrust. Jeremy Roberts was Global Head of Distribution at GAM Investments.

Prior to joining GAM in 2020, he was Co-Head of EMEA Retail Sales and Head of UK Retail Business at BlackRock. He has over 20 years of experience in the Investment Management industry and has worked extensively with clients across the UK, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. Jeremy will be responsible for further developing Global Distribution capability with an initial focus on Germany, Switzerland, Italy, the Nordics, Iberia and Latin America, Benelux and France.