Guy Hands

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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.

Contents 1 Career summary 2 Honours and appointments 3 See also 4 Trivia 5 References

[edit] Career summary

Educated at Ravenscroft School, Beckington, The Judd School, Tonbridge, and Mansfield College, Oxford, Hands started his career as a bond trader at Goldman Sachs. He left for Nomura in 1984 and made a fortune as Managing Director of its Principal Finance Group, with the purchase of a chain of UK pubs. In 2002, he founded Terra Firma Capital Partners, and has gained the reputation of being a "big hitter" in the city of London. Terra Firma has bought a big property portfolio in the UK and Germany (where they are the country's biggest landlord), ex UK Ministry of Defence residential housing and motorway service stations. It is also the largest owner of cinemas in Europe, having taken control of the United Cinemas International and Odeon Cinemas chains. Other acquisitions have been of the where there's muck there's brass variety, such as the waste water company Waste Recycling Group.

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

Hands is worth an estimated £200 million according to the The Sunday Times.^{[citation needed]}

Hands' friends include William Hague, who was best man at his wedding, while his house in Sevenoaks, Kent, England was once presented to Winston Churchill.

[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.

[edit] References

• Guy Hands at Terra Firma
• Hand Picked Hotels
• Mansfield College, Oxford
• Ravenscroft School