Matthew J. Craston

Mr. Matthew J.
Craston is Head-Marketing & Client Services, Senior Adviser for High Yield & Alternative Strategies at ECM Asset Management Ltd. He joined ECM in January 2004 and has had over thirty years of experience in the credit markets.
He was appointed Head of Marketing in May 2013 having previously been Head of Alternatives, responsible for ECM’s loans, senior secured credit and special situations funds.
Prior to ECM, he was a Managing Director at UBS Investment Bank.
Between 1997 and 2003, he worked in UBS’s European Leveraged Finance Group, where he was responsible for arranging large senior and subordinated debt facilities for leveraged buyouts by private equity firms.
Before 1997, he worked in the Corporate Finance division of SBC Warburg, both executing and advising on transactions, including fund raisings and debt advisory mandates.
During the 1980s, he worked for the Chase Manhattan Bank in London in various roles, with work including large corporate debt-raising transactions and debt restructurings.
Mr. Craston is a graduate of Oxford University.