Leadership

Blantyre Capital has a diverse and experienced senior leadership team with an average of 20 years of investment experience through multiple market cycles.
Mubashir Mukadam
Managing Partner & Chief Investment Officer
Mubashir Mukadam
Managing Partner & Chief Investment Officer

Mubashir founded Blantyre in 2016. As the Founding Partner & Chief Investment Officer, Mubashir is responsible for the firm’s overall direction including establishing the firm’s vision, culture and investment approach.  Before founding Blantyre, Mubashir was Head of KKR’s European Special Situations business. At KKR he successfully built and scaled the business in Europe, from hiring and training a team of 10, sourcing interesting public and private investment opportunities amounting to approximately USD3.5bn invested, and innovating and developing a successful investment track record for the business in Europe. He also founded and scaled Pillarstone, a European loans platform that launched with approximately EUR1bn in 2015. Prior to KKR, Mubashir was a Managing Director at York Capital, where he helped establish the group’s European credit business, growing it to approximately USD2bn at the time of his departure. Prior to York, Mubashir worked at Deutsche Bank overseeing various special situations investments. Mubashir started his career in 1996 at Bankers Trust/Deutsche Bank.

 

Mubashir has a B.Sc. (Hons) in Business Administration from the University of Bath. He also holds an MBA with Honours from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Mubashir is a guest speaker on European special situations investing in the MBA programme at the London Business School.

Fernando de Santiago
Partner & Head of Investments
Fernando de Santiago
Partner & Head of Investments

Fernando joined Blantyre in early 2018.  As Partner & Head of Investments, Fernando is responsible for overseeing Blantyre’s investment activities and leading the investment team.  He is also a voting member of Blantyre’s Investment Committee.  Prior to joining Blantyre, Fernando was a Principal in Special Situations at KKR Credit, focusing on special situations transactions across various industries in Europe. He also held several board positions in portfolio companies in the consumer, building materials, capital goods and paper sectors. Previously, Fernando was an Associate in the Financial Restructuring Group at Houlihan Lokey. He started his career in Corporate Finance at Deutsche Bank, focusing on the Industrials sector.

 

Fernando has a double degree in Law and Business with a Major in Finance from Universidad Pontificia de Comillas (ICADE). He speaks English and Spanish.

Heloisa Chaney
Managing Partner, COO & Deputy CCO
Heloisa Chaney
Managing Partner, COO & Deputy CCO

Heloisa joined Blantyre in early 2018. As Managing Partner & Chief Operating Officer, she is responsible for all internal and external reporting, all financial and operational aspects of investment structuring, execution and valuation as well as tax, legal and compliance.  Heloisa is also a voting member on Blantyre’s Investment Committee. Heloisa Chaney has over 20 years of experience in the finance industry, including over 14 years of experience in management roles in the alternative investment management industry having founded, built, and managed investment firms at a senior level. She has extensive experience overseeing a variety of private and complex credit instruments across multiple investment vehicles.  Prior to joining Blantyre, she was a founding partner and COO of 400 Capital Management LLC (“400 Capital”), a structured credit asset management firm. She founded the firm in 2008 with her partners and was responsible for developing and managing the firm’s trading and asset management operations, legal, compliance, accounting, tax, HR, and systems management. She served as a member of the Investment and Operating Committees. Prior to joining 400 Capital, Heloisa was a principal at Paramax Capital Group responsible for raising, investing and managing capital across three funds, which focused on structured finance transactions, including equity in cash and synthetic CDOs and CDOs-squared and Expected Loss Notes. Heloisa was responsible for developing and implementing valuation, risk management and surveillance systems, investment and valuation policies, operational activities, portfolio management processes, and quantitative analytics. Heloisa began her career in investment banking at J.P. Morgan.

 

Heloisa received a Masters in Financial Engineering at Columbia University, in which she focused on engineering methodologies and quantitative methods for pricing credit and equity derivatives and options. Heloisa received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of São Paulo, Brazil.

Robert Patterson
Partner & Head of Operations
Robert Patterson
Partner & Head of Operations

Rob joined Blantyre in early 2019, and was promoted to Partner in 2022. As Head of Operations, Rob is focused on operational aspects of investment execution, tax structuring, financing, valuations, risk management, and reporting across the portfolio. Prior to joining Blantyre, he spent several years as an analyst at Alchemy Special Opportunities, working on a wide range of European distressed credit, special situations, and private equity transactions. Previously he was part of the in-house legal team at Duet Asset Management, and began his career in legal practice, specialising in financial services.

 

Rob has MA (Hons) in Politics from the University of Edinburgh, a Graduate Diploma in Law and the Legal Practice Certificate from BPP Law School. He is a CAIA Charterholder.

Simon Mullaly
Partner & Investment Executive
Simon Mullaly
Partner & Investment Executive

Simon joined Blantyre in early 2023, initially as a Senior Advisor and then as an employee and Senior Investment Executive in July 2023. He has over 25 years of capital markets experience, focused on leverage credit, restructurings and special situations trading and investing. Simon has executed transactions globally having worked in both London and New York for international banks, global institutions as well as founding his own independent niche fixed-income brokerage business. Simon commenced his Wall Street career in New York at Goldman Sachs in leverage finance structuring and origination. Thereafter he worked as a desk credit analyst before being asked to manage and trade the desk's capital. Simon relocated to London in 1999 and participated in the growth of the nascent European credit markets initially at Lehman Brothers as head of high yield credit trading before moving in 2001 to Deutsche Bank where he led special situations trading and analytics. After the Global Financial Crisis Simon founded and operated Yorvik Partners, a FCA regulated institutional broker that specialized in the sourcing, analysis and distribution of European special situations credits. In 2014 Yorvik Partners was sold to Stifel Nicolaus. Most recently Simon worked for Guggenheim Partners USA as Head of Credit Sales and Trading.

 

Simon earned an MBA from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. He also obtained a BSc (Hons) from Nottingham Trent University, England. Prior to business school Simon was a qualified Chartered Surveyor in the UK and worked for a variety of real estate developers and institutional advisors.

Investment Team

Blantyre Capital’s investment team is responsible for sourcing and underwriting investment opportunities and monitoring active investments. The team members have prior experience working across Europe and are fluent in several languages, which enable them to effectively cover many jurisdictions.
Johann Scheid
Investment Director
Johann Scheid
Investment Director

Prior to joining Blantyre, Johann was an Associate at Moelis & Company focusing on Financial Restructuring, M&A and Capital Markets Advisory across EMEA covering various sectors. Previously, he was an Analyst in the Leveraged Finance Team at UniCredit covering European Financial Sponsor backed buy-outs across various industries as well as add-on financings. He also worked at Lazard and IKB in investment banking. Prior to this he founded and exited three start-ups. Johann served in the German Military and was part of the Close Protection Team assuring the security of high military and Government officials.

 

Johann holds an MSc in Finance from the European Business School, Oestrich-Winkel (EBS), an MSc in Real Estate from The University of Hong Kong (HKU) and a BA in Business from Lauder Business School, Vienna. He speaks English and German.

Miguel Cebrian
Investment Director
Miguel Cebrian
Investment Director

Miguel joined Blantyre in September 2019 after completing his MBA programme. Prior to joining Blantyre as a Summer Intern, Miguel was an associate in the Restructuring Team at Goldman Sachs, focusing on restructuring advisory and stressed new capital opportunities across various industries in EMEA. He started his career in the Credit Risk Management and Advisory Group at Goldman Sachs.

 

Miguel was part of the 2019 MBA Class at The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, is a CFA charterholder and has a double degree in Law and Business with a Major in Finance from Universidad Pontificia de Comillas (ICADE). He speaks English and Spanish.

Daniele Lania
Investment Executive
Daniele Lania
Investment Executive

Daniele joined Blantyre in January 2019 on a six-month secondment from KPMG’s Rome office where he was a Senior Consultant in Restructuring and decided to join Blantyre full time in January 2020. He has worked on several Italian debt restructuring projects across various sectors. He also specializes in analysing and identifying stressed and distressed companies. Prior to KPMG, he worked within the commercial department, as a business analyst, at Grandi Stazioni Retail.

 

Daniele holds a M.Sc. (Hons) in Business Administration from LUISS Guido Carli University of Rome and a B.Sc. in Business Administration from Federico II University of Naples. He speaks English and Italian.

Henry Wright
Investment Executive
Henry Wright
Investment Executive

Henry joined Blantyre in September 2022. Prior to joining Blantyre, Henry worked at OpCapita where he was a private equity associate for two and a half years focussed on turning around operationally underperforming businesses in the European consumer, retail, and leisure sectors. Henry started his career at in the London office of Evercore where he covered FIG and Energy M&A for five years.

 

Henry holds a BEng degree in Engineering Design (Mechanical) from the University of Bristol. During his course at Bristol, he worked as a Nuclear Engineering Consultant for a year.

Rob Pell
Investment Executive
Rob Pell
Investment Executive

Rob joined Blantyre in March 2022 as an intern on the investment team and was hired as an employee in February 2023. Prior to that, he spent two years as an Associate in the Financial Sponsors team at Investec, focusing on European mid-market M&A. He started his career within audit at EY before moving to the Transaction Advisory department at Grant Thornton, advising on M&A, restructurings, and capital raising. During this period, he was also seconded to ITV Plc, INTU Plc, and RWE, offering c-suite financial advisory.

 

Rob holds an MBA from London Business School, graduating on the Dean’s List, and is a chartered accountant (ICAS), qualifying as a national prizewinner. He holds a Master of Mathematics (Mmath) from the University of East Anglia.

James Wright
Investment Executive
James Wright
Investment Executive

James joined Blantyre in June 2023 as an Investment Executive. Prior to joining Blantyre, James worked at Lazard for six years as an Associate in the Restructuring Group, where he advised companies and creditor groups in restructurings, M&A and broader capital structure solutions. In addition, he spent a year on secondment to UK Government Investments within the Special Situations Group, where he advised ministers and Whitehall departments.

 

James holds a BSc in Physics from Durham University.

David Januario
Investment Executive
David Januario
Investment Executive

David joined Blantyre in September 2023 after completing his MBA program. Prior to joining Blantyre as a summer intern, David was an Assistant Vice President in the real estate investment team at GIC, where he worked on several private equity and credit transactions in Latin America. Prior to that, he was an analyst in the Investment Banking team at Morgan Stanley, providing M&A and capital markets advisory across industries.

 

David was part of the 2023 MBA Class at The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and has an undergraduate degree in Economics from Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). He speaks Portuguese, English, French and Spanish.

Senior Non-Investment Team

Ramesh Parameswar
Head of Business Development
Ramesh Parameswar
Head of Business Development

Ramesh joined Blantyre in January 2024. Ramesh oversees the business development and capital formation activities for Blantyre Capital. Ramesh has over two decades of experience in senior leadership roles within the asset management industry across institutional marketing, product management and business development. Previously, Ramesh was at Artist Capital, a boutique merchant bank in New York. Prior to that he headed business development for Trend Capital, and was a Partner heading Marketing & Investor Relations at Moon Capital Management. Ramesh started his career at Citi, with 15 years in various roles across the organization. His last role was Managing Director at Citi Alternative Investments in New York, where he was responsible for global product development, marketing and investor relations for Citigroup’s single manager hedge fund and leveraged loan business. Ramesh graduated from the College of Engineering in Madras in Electrical Engineering and received his MBA from the Faculty of Management Studies at the University of Delhi. He is CAIA certified.

Tim Atkinson
Head of Investor Partnerships
Tim Atkinson
Head of Investor Partnerships

Tim joined Blantyre in June 2020 as Head of Investor Partnerships and is responsible for Blantyre’s capital formation and investor relations initiatives.    Prior to joining Blantyre, Tim was a Managing Principal/Research Consultant with Meketa Investment Group. He joined Meketa in 2008 and upon leaving was overseeing the research and evaluation a wide variety of public and private credit investment strategies globally. He worked with various investor types including pension, corporate, insurance company and family office. His work included the development of portfolio strategy, as well as working with clients to build bespoke credit programs and accounts. In 2015 Tim relocated to the U.K. to help the firm launch their London office. Tim has more than fifteen years of experience in the investment industry and has prior experience working at Commonwealth Financial Network and Federal Street Advisors.

Tim holds a B.S. from Northeastern University.

Katrina West
General Counsel & Chief Compliance Officer
Katrina West
General Counsel & Chief Compliance Officer

Katrina joined Blantyre in May 2021 has over 13 years of experience advising private fund managers on the establishment, structuring and maintenance of investment funds as well as on legal, compliance and regulatory matters.  As Blantyre’s General Counsel & Chief Compliance Officer, Katrina is responsible for legal and compliance matters related to Blantyre Capital and the funds it manages.  Prior to joining Blantyre, Katrina was the General Counsel of Horizon Asset LLP and before that, she served as legal counsel at Brevan Howard Asset Management LLP.  Katrina started her career at Simmons & Simmons LLP, specialising in financial services, in particular, private funds.  During her career, she has spent time working in the Middle East as well as London.

Katrina holds a Master of Arts in History from the University of East Anglia and has completed a Graduate Diploma in Law and the Legal Practice Course at Nottingham Law School.

Brian Barry
US General Counsel
Brian Barry
US General Counsel

Brian has over 20 years of legal and securities regulatory experience. Most recently, he served as the General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer of Trend Capital Management since 2014, and previously as the Chief Compliance Officer of Bayview Asset Management LLC. Brian also held Senior Counsel and Senior Trial Counsel positions at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (Division of Enforcement). He started his legal career in the corporate and litigation groups of Weil, Gotshal Manges LLP. Brian received his J.D. from the University of Miami School of Law and Bachelor of Science from the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York.

Sam Young
Chief Financial Officer
Sam Young
Chief Financial Officer

Sam joined Blantyre in February 2020 as Finance Director. Sam was promoted to Chief Financial Officer later the same year, and is responsible for accounting and financial management for the Blantyre funds and management company.  Sam has more than 20 years of experience in asset management, primarily in alternative investments and has worked in investment firms covering a variety of asset classes as Chief Financial Officer. Sam started his career in the Investment Management Group at Ernst & Young. Sam holds a BA in geography from the University of Sheffield.

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