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ARK has a team of Trustees whose combined skills offer a wealth of experience and contacts to support ARK in its activities. The Trustees meet regularly and contribute directly to the operations. They also demonstrate their commitment by ensuring, along with the Patrons, that all administrative costs are covered, so that 100% of all donations go directly to deliver ARK’s programmes for children.
Stanley Fink, Chairman
Stanley Fink is Chief Executive Officer of International Standard Asset Management (ISAM).Previous to this he was Non-executive Deputy Chairman of Man Group plc, the largest listed hedge fund manager in the world, managing close to US$80 billion of assets. Man is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index of leading UK shares.
Stanley joined Man in 1987 becoming Group Finance Director in 1992 and led the team responsible for the successful flotation of the Group in 1994. He was appointed Managing Director of Man Investments in 1996 and then Chairman in 2002. He became Group Chief Executive in March 2000 and was appointed Deputy Chairman in March 2007. The company had around US$1 billion of assets under management when he took up the appointment in 1996.
Stanley Fink studied at Manchester Grammar School and then Trinity Hall College, Cambridge, qualifying with an MA in Law in 1979. He then qualified as a chartered accountant with Arthur Andersen and has held positions at Mars and Citibank.
Arpad A. Busson, Founding Chairman
Arpad Busson is the Founder and Chairman of EIM, which manages assets for institutional investors and high net worth individuals in delegated investment management; a management approach based on the evaluation, selection and allocation of assets to the best specialist managers, both alternative and traditional investments, globally. As of 2010, EIM assets under management have surpassed USD $13 billion and since 1992, EIM has allocated on behalf of clients some $8.7 billion to third-party money managers. With over 150 employees worldwide, the group has offices in Geneva, Zurich, London, New York, Tokyo and Gibraltar.
In addition, Arpad is Chairman of the AAA Foundation, the Swiss foundation providing Swiss pension funds with access to investments in multi-manager products.
Paul Dunning
Paul Dunning has been in the hedge fund industry since 1992, when he was a part of the team that launched the Goldman Sachs Global Currency Fund. In 2009, he established Finsbury Capital Advisers Pty Ltd, a firm that advises Australian institutional investors on their hedge fund investments. Prior to that he was the CEO of two industry leading hedge fund of funds businesses; the founding CEO of HSBC Republic Investments Limited (HRIL) from 1995 until June 2005, a business which garnered in excess of US$5bn in assets under management, and from Nov 2005 until February 2009 he was the CEO of Financial Risk Management Limited a leading manager of hedge fund portfolios for institutional investors around the world with substantial assets under management.
Paul joined HRIL in 1995 after spending four years at Goldman Sachs Asset Management International where he was the Chief Operating Officer. He also had stints at Midland Bank International and at Chemical Bank. He holds a joint honours degree in Economics and Economic History from Leicester University.
Kevin Gundle
Kevin Gundle co-founded Aurum Fund Management in 1994 and has been involved in alternative investing for almost twenty years. Aurum is a privately owned investment management group that specialises in alternative investment strategies.
Aurum manages a range of fund of hedge funds, which provides access to some of the world’s best alternative investment managers. Aurum’s investment process is rigorous and is based on independent and objective research.
Kevin holds a Bachelor of Engineering Honours Degree in Computer and Control Engineering.
Paul Marshall
Paul Marshall is Chairman and CIO of Marshall Wace LLP, one of Europe’s leading hedge fund groups. The firm manages a number of award-winning funds including the Eureka Fund. He is also a member of the Hedge Fund Standards Board.
He is a founding Trustee of ARK, the children’s charity, and Chairman of ARK Schools. ARK Schools is one of the UK’s leading providers of academies and has also played a pioneering role in the development of training programmes for teachers who work in inner-city schools. ARK is also active in improving educational outcomes in India and is the largest provider of HIV treatment in South Africa
Mr Marshall is also Chairman of Centreforum, the Liberal think tank which was launched in 2005 and has rapidly gained prominence in the public policy sphere notably for its contribution to the debates on education, welfare and the economy. In 2007 Centreforum was named runner up in the Prospect Think-Tank of the year awards and in 2009 won the Prospect award for “Best Publication”.
Mr Marshall is author of “Tackling Educational Inequality” (2007) and co-author of “Aiming Higher: a better future for England’s schools” (2006). He was also co-author of “The Orange Book” (with David Laws, MP, 2005)
Jennifer Moses
Jennifer Moses has followed a successful career in investment banking with leadership roles in public policy. Most recently she has been a special adviser to the British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown. She was previously Chief Executive of the thinktank, Centreforum, following her banking career with Goldman Sachs. Ms Moses is a graduate of Brown University and Harvard Business School. She is a governor of King Solomon Academy in London and an ARK trustee. She is married with three children.
Michael Platt
Michael Platt, Chief Executive Officer and Head of Trading of BlueCrest Capital Management Guernsey, Geneva branch, co-founded BlueCrest Capital Management.
Prior to establishing BlueCrest in April 2000, he was a Managing Director at JP Morgan in London where, since February 1998, he was responsible for relative value proprietary trading. Michael joined JP Morgan in September 1991 and in April 1992, he assumed responsibility for developing its swaps business and subsequently its options trading business. In April 1996, he became Head of Trading for all swaps products relating to the eleven founder nations of the European single currency.
He holds a BSc (Hons) from the London School of Economics.
Blaine Tomlinson
Blaine Tomlinson is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Financial Risk Management (FRM), a global fund of hedge funds group with offices in London, New York, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Guernsey, Seoul and Sydney. As Chairman, Blaine focuses on business strategy development and investment opportunities and initiatives.
Previously, Blaine was director and a board member of AIG Financial Products Group, where he was responsible for establishing, building and managing the European business. He was also an executive director at Nomura International Limited, where he established a swap and structured products group.
Blaine holds a MBA and a degree in Economics (Hons) from the University of Cape Town, and a Bachelor of Economics from Rhodes University.
Ian Wace
Ian Wace, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Risk Officer is a founding partner of Marshall Wace LLP. As CEO, he has overseen the growth and development of the company since the launch of the Eureka strategy in 1997. Under his stewardship, the firm pioneered the development of TOPS and is now extending its manager-based product offering. Ian is closely involved with all aspects of the management of the firm across all three major geographical regions. As CRO, Ian has ultimate risk management responsibility across the full range of Marshall Wace funds.
Prior to founding Marshall Wace, Ian was Global Head of Equity and Derivative Trading at Deutsche Morgan Grenfell (‘DMG’), where he was responsible for Equity Sales Trading, Programme Trading, Proprietary Trading, Stock Lending and Balance Sheet Management. Prior to joining DMG in 1995, he worked for eleven years at SG Warburg, where in 1988, as the youngest ever Director, he was appointed head of European Equity Sales and in 1993, head of Proprietary Trading.