US asset manager Neuberger Berman has hired Matt Pumo the newly-created role of senior vice-president of European consultant relations and UK institutional clients. Pumo will report locally to Ed Jones, managing director and head of UK institutional for the firm, and will be part of the global consultant relations team run by Alison Bush Delgado in New York. He was previously at Gartmore Investment Management, where he was head of consultant relations and UK business development.