Guy Hands

Bio

Terra Firma's Chairman, Chief Investment Officer and Founder. Started his career with Goldman Sachs International where he went on to become Head of Eurobond Trading and then Head of Goldman Sachs’ Global Asset Structuring Group. Left Goldman’s in 1994 to establish the Principal Finance Group (PFG) at Nomura International plc which acquired 15 businesses with an aggregate enterprise value of €20 billion. Mr Hands led the spin-out of PFG to form Terra Firma in 2002. Elected a Global Leader of Tomorrow of the World Economic Forum in 2000 in recognition of his achievements. President of “Access for Excellence”, a campaign based at Mansfield College, Oxford, which promotes the broadest possible access to higher education in the UK He is a Bancroft Fellow of Mansfield College, Oxford and a member of the University of Oxford Chancellor’s Court of Benefactors. Additionally, is a Fellow of the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Scheme. MA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Mansfield College, Oxford University.