LONDON-Tristan Capital Partners, an investment management firmbased here, has hired six executives to boost the company’s serviceacross the United Kingdom and Europe. Chief Executive Ric Lewistells GlobeSt.com that the time is right to seek out more businessas other companies are in disarray due to the economicdownturn.

Lewis formed Tristan 18 months ago with COO Ian Laming. Lewisand a few of the new executives were the founders of Curzon GlobalPartners and partners with AEW, which partners on Tristan funds.Tristan manages two pan-European opportunity funds with $3 billionof assets under management. Lewis is also executive portfoliomanager for European Property Investors and European PropertyInvestors Special Opportunities; he launches these funds when hewas CEO at Curzon

The hires include Rui Tereso, head of portfolio and assetmanagement; Monica O’Neill, head of client services and marketing;Cameron Spry, head of investments; Simon Martin, head of researchand strategy; Ben Newman, managing director of portfolio/assetmanagement and Sameer Godbole, director of investments. Many of theexecutives worked with Lewis either with Curzon or with AEW.