Crossbridge Capital, the London-based boutique that launched in 2008, has named Manish Singh as director and head of investment services.

In his new role Singh will oversee the firm’s investment services arm, which includes discretionary and advisory portfolios for high and ultra high net worth clients. He reports to Tarek Khlat, the firm’s chief executive.

Singh was most recently investment director at Société Generale Private Banking Hambros Bank, a role in which he managed some $400 million in bespoke and advisory portfolios covering multi-asset classes, alternative investments and structured products. Before this he was head of the structured products solutions team at SGPB Hambros and a quantitative equity analyst at SocGen Corporate and Investment Banking, having previously worked for UBS Investment Bank in London and Hong Kong.

Crossbridge focuses in particular on entrepreneurial clients, which the firm says are increasingly coming from emerging markets such as the Middle East, India, Russia, Turkey and South East Asia. Since its launch, the firm has grown from six to thirty employees.