Oak Hill Investment Management Names David Bizer Managing Partner

MENLO PARK, Calif., Feb. 17, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Oak Hill Investment Management (OHIM) today announced that David Bizer has joined the firm as a Managing Partner. Mr. Bizer is a respected industry veteran who was most recently Wholesale Chief Administrative Officer for Nomura. In his new role, Mr. Bizer will join the five current OHIM Managing Partners in leading all aspects of the firm's investment strategy and relationships with clients and counterparties.

"As OHIM continues to grow its scale and infrastructure, we are delighted to welcome Dave to the team. Dave is a consummate professional and creative solution provider, with extensive expertise in helping to lead organizations serving clients investing in a wide variety of asset classes.  We have known and worked very effectively with Dave for more than fifteen years," said Mark Wolfson, OHIM co-founder and Managing Partner.

Jamie Alexander, OHIM co-founder and Managing Partner, added, "We look forward to Dave joining us as we continue to improve the value proposition that we offer our clients. Dave has a wide range of experience and global perspectives that will complement and strengthen our senior leadership team."

Mr. Bizer commented, "Oak Hill Investment Management has a well-deserved reputation for excellence, and I look forward to working with Mark, Jamie and the rest of the Managing Partners as we continue to build a firm dedicated to achieving the highest standards of investment management services."  

Mr. Bizer joins from Nomura, where he was Wholesale Chief Administrative Officer and member of the Wholesale Executive Committee. He was previously Global Head of Fixed Income Sales at Nomura and Head of Global Market Sales for Europe.  Mr. Bizer joined Nomura in November 2008.  Prior to joining Nomura, he was Head of Fixed Income Sales for Europe and the Middle East at Lehman Brothers. He was responsible for sales of all fixed income products and managed the firm's fixed income sales organization in the region. Before that, he had managed the U.S. equity and European derivative sales organizations at Lehman Brothers.  He also co-managed Lehman's European equity sales group.

Prior to joining Lehman Brothers, he served on the Council of Economic Advisers under both Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush.  Additionally, Mr. Bizer was a visiting assistant professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and an assistant professor of Finance at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.  He has also published articles in the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, and the Journal of Monetary Economics, among other periodicals and publications.  

Mr. Bizer earned a B.A. from the University of Michigan.  He also holds an M.A. in Economics and a Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University.

About Oak Hill Investment Management

Oak Hill Investment Management is an investment management firm that provides highly customized, discretionary investment solutions for prominent Forbes 400 families and global institutional investors.  The firm evolved out of the Robert M. Bass family office and offers access to investment opportunities across a broad range of asset classes, including private equity, venture capital, hedge funds, real estate, natural resources, public equity and fixed income.

SOURCE Oak Hill Investment Management