Kurt Baker hires Horner from Elliott Advisors

Kurt Baker's new platform for hedge funds, Cranmore Capital Advisers, has found a chief operating officer in the form of Ben Horner. Horner was previously head of equity financing at hedge fund Elliott Advisors in Hong Kong, responsible for regulatory compliance and financing operations in Asia. He joins Baker, who was formerly Asian head of prime broking at Morgan Stanley before setting up Cranmore earlier in the summer. One of Horner's first jobs at Cranmore is to hunt down spacio…