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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 2007, EIM assets under management have surpassed USD $13 billion and since 1992, EIM has allocated on behalf of clients some $7 billion to third-party money managers. With over 90 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. Since then he has been the CEO of two industry leading hedge fund of funds businesses; he was the founder 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 subsequent to this from November 2005 until February 2009 he was the CEO of Financial Risk Management Limited (FRM) a specialist in managing hedge fund portfolios for institutional investors around the world with over US$10bn in assets under management.
Paul joined HRIL in 1995 after spending four years at Goldman Sachs Asset Management International (GSAM) 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.
David Gorton
In 1986 David Gorton began his trading career at Chemical Bank making markets in bonds and subsequently helped to build Chemical’s reputation and strength in forward rate agreements (FRA). He also helped to create and subsequently acted as joint head of Chemical’s Eurobond trading.
In 1989 David joined HSBC in London in charge of trading in FRA and short-dated bonds. In 1992 he was promoted to Chief Dealer for HSBC in the USA, where he was responsible for all interest rate risk. In May 1997 he joined the Chase Manhattan Bank to become Chief Investment Officer of London Diversified Fund Limited.
In 2002 David created London Diversified Fund Management (UK) Ltd to take over responsibility for managing London Diversified Fund Limited. The London Diversified Fund Management Group has since grown to 70 staff, has created another fund, London Select Fund, and has grown to assets in excess of $3.7 billion under management.
Kevin Gundle
Kevin Gundle co-founded Aurum Funds in 1994 and has been involved in alternative investing for almost twenty years. Aurum is a privately owned investment management group that specialises in alternative investment strategies.
Aurum manages a range of multi-manager investment vehicles, which provides access to some of the world’s best alternative investment managers. Aurum’s investment process is rigorous and is based on independent and objective research.
Kevin is also associated with a diverse group of business interests. This involvement in various aspects of investment, both in the financial markets and in direct equity investments, broadens the perspective in which the Aurum group makes investment decisions based upon long-term objectives.
Kevin holds a Bachelor of Engineering Honours Degree in Computer and Control Engineering.
Paul Marshall
Paul Marshall is a founding partner of Marshall Wace, one of Europe’s leading hedge fund groups. He was co-manager of the award winning Eureka (Euro) Fund from 1998-2004 with Ian Wace. Within his role as Chairman, Paul also has responsibility for business development, corporate governance and regulatory issues and as CIO for manager-led strategies he has overall responsibility for the development of this part of the firm’s business.
Paul is a Founder Trustee of the Hedge Funds Standards Board and Chairman of CentreForum, the liberal think tank. Paul was formerly a Director of Mercury Asset Management, where he was CIO for European Equities. At the time of his departure in 1997 he was responsible for a team of 15 managing US$ 12b in assets. Paul holds an MBA from INSEAD Business School and a BA Hons. from St. John’s College, Oxford, in History & Modern Languages.
He is the author of “Tackling Educational Inequality” (2006).
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, is co-founder of BlueCrest Capital Management Limited. BlueCrest is an alternative asset manager with offices in London, New York, Boston and Singapore and managing significant institutional assets across a number of strategies.
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 group chairman 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 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 (Euro) Fund in 1997. Marshall Wace employs over 160 personnel, and operates from offices in London, Greenwich, Connecticut and Hong Kong. Under his stewardship, the firm pioneered the development of TOPS and is now extending its manager-based product offering. The company is one of Europe’s largest privately-owned alternative asset managers, recognised for its robust infrastructure and investment processes. As CEO, Ian is closely involved with all aspects of the management of the firm and is instrumental in driving forward the broad range of initiatives which will take the company through its next phase of growth.
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.