Guy Hands

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Guy Hands (born 1959) is a financier and the current CEO of the private equity firm Terra Firma Capital Partners, which he founded in 2002. Previously he made a fortune as Managing Director of the Principal Finance Group at Nomura, with the purchase of a chain of UK pubs. He started his career as a bond trader at Goldman Sachs, leaving for Nomura in 1984 after 12 years. Reputed to be a "big hitter" in the city of London, other acquisitions have been of the "where there's muck there's brass" variety with the purchase of a waste water company.

Terra Firma has also bought a quantity of property in both the UK and Germany (where they are the country's biggest landlord), ex MOD residential housing and motorway service stations. Notably the private equity firm is also the largest owner of cinemas in Europe, having taken control of not only the UCI but the Odeon Cinemas chains as well. Hands is worth an estimated £200 million according to the The Sunday Times.^{[citation needed]}

Hands and his wife Julia also own the Hand Picked Hotels chain of 14 country-house properties, which is run by Julia Hands.

Educated at Ravenscroft School, Beckington, The Judd School, Tonbridge, and Mansfield College, Oxford, Hands's friends include William Hague, who was best man at his wedding, while his house in Sevenoaks, Kent, England was once presented to Winston Churchill. He has four children.

1 Honours and appointments
2 See also
3 Trivia
4 References

[edit] Honours and appointments

2000 - elected a Global Leader of Tomorrow of the World Economic Forum
President of Access for Excellence
Bancroft Fellow of Mansfield College, Oxford
Member of the University of Oxford Chancellor’s Court of Benefactors
Fellow of the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Scheme

[edit] See also

Waste Recycling Group

[edit] Trivia

As an undergraduate in the early 1980s, he held the office of Bursar of the Oxford Union Society.
In a Ravenscroft production of Macbeth in 1970, he played the part of Lady Macbeth opposite Christopher Newbury as Macbeth.