Babson recruits distribution head

Babson Capital Europe, the London-headquartered CDO manager, has named Andrew Godson as head of distribution.

In this role he will be responsible for the firm’s global sales and distribution activities as well as distributing Babson products to European investors.

Godson joins from Citigroup, where he ran syndicate for CDOs and structured credit in Europe. While at Citi, he played a key role in growing the bank’s CLO franchise into one of the biggest in Europe. Prior to Citi, Godson spent three years working in the securitisation group at Nomura where he was involved in the structuring of CDOs and securitisation in esoteric asset classes.