Guy Hands: The private finance pioneer

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Fifty years of capital markets Jim Amine Samir Assaf Jean-Francois Astier Allegra Berman Mandy DeFilippo Jerry del Missier Bob Diamond Tyler Dickson Eric Dobkin Martin Egan Jim Esposito Peter Hancock Jeremy Isaacs Conor Killeen John McNiven Chris O’Malley Vikram Pandit Hans-Joerg Rudloff John St John Paul Tregidgo Matthew Westerman

Guy Hands began his career in Eurobond trading at Goldman Sachs in the early 1980s. He made his name at Nomura in the 1990s with the pioneering securitization deals of its Principal Finance Group.

Now he is head of Terra Firma, the leading private equity firm that has invested €17 billion in 34 businesses since 1994, with an aggregate enterprise value of over €48 billion.