Tom is a Senior Portfolio Manager within the Investment Grade team focusing on European non-sovereign debt. Thomas joined BlueBay in December 2005 as a tactical software developer in the IT team and joined the Investment Grade team as an assistant portfolio manager in July 2007. Thomas has been instrumental in driving the success of the European IG credit strategy in which he is a lead portfolio manager, as well as developing the growing buy-and-maintain strategies in recent years' During his time as a developer, Thomas wrote and implemented the profit and loss systems used in the hedge fund strategies across all asset classes at BlueBay. His knowledge and design of these systems has been one of the factors in the prolonged and successful track records of the absolute return and hedge fund strategies managed by the team.
Prior to BlueBay, he worked as a financial analyst at the UK head office of Schneider Electric and as a financial software consultant at Beicon Group. Tom holds a BSc degree in Mathematics from the University of Wales, Swansea, and is a CFA charterholder.