Ian joined Alchemy in 2006 to establish and manage the Alchemy Special Opportunities Fund. He was previously at Mizuho International where he co-founded the Global Special Situations Group focusing on a portfolio of distressed debt and special situations investments. Prior to this he co-managed a portfolio of proprietary distressed debt, high yield and special situation investments at Salomon Smith Barney and was the European Distressed Debt analyst for the secondary loan trading business at Citibank. Ian has over 14 years' experience in distressed investing.