Aligned Asset Managers, a portfolio company of private equity firm GTCR, has named R Barney Walker as director of institutional investments.
Walker will drive Aligned’s distribution and client service activities for its member firms.
Walker will focus on implementing Aligned’s strategic marketing plan across all institutional and retail distribution channels. Aligned expects to add additional resources to the distribution activity as it increases its member firms and products. Walker has extensive industry contacts in the institutional marketplace and will also assist Aligned in sourcing new potential investments.
Walker was previously a senior vice president and director of institutional investments at Artio Global Management, the former US institutional asset management arm of Julius Baer Holdings, where he joined in 2002 to help build an institutional asset management business.
Prior to Artio, Walker was a senior new business/client service manager at Ark Asset Management, where he started his career in 1996.
