Jill Cohen was named director of institutional sales by alternative investment manager Salient Partners.
The position is new. Ms. Cohen is based in the firm's New York office. She will focus on marketing to pension funds, foundations, endowments and institutional family offices, confirmed Rachael Fisher-Layne, a Salient spokeswoman, in an e-mail.
Ms. Cohen was a director and head of capital introductions team for the Americas in the prime brokerage department of Citigroup.
Salient Partners manages $18 billion for institutional and retail clients.