Peter de Putron

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Peter de Putron
Born
Peter Nicholas de Putron [1]

(1963-10-15) October 15, 1963 (age 59)
Education Eton College
Alma mater
Occupation(s)Investor, hedge fund manager
Known forOwner of G-Research
SpouseCarolynne Hayley Salmon [3]
Children4 [1]

Peter Nicholas de Putron (born 15 October 1963 [1] ) is the founder of De Putron Fund Management, G-Research and associated companies. [4]

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Background

De Putron grew up in Guernsey, where his father was a local politician. [5] He attended Eton College. [4]

De Putron graduated from Jesus College, University of Oxford with a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts in Engineering Science. [2]

De Putron began his career in the corporate finance department of Royal Bank of Canada in 1985. From 1987 to 1990 he, worked at GNI, a brokerage firm where he traded derivatives. From 1990 to 1992, De Putron attended Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania graduating in 1992 with a Master of Business Administration in Finance and Entrepreneurial Management. He then worked at IFM, a London-based Hedge Fund where he specialized in market neutral solutions. [2]

De Putron founded De Putron Fund Management in 1997, which had seed money from George Soros. [2] [4] G-Research, a quantitative investment firm is part of the De Putron Fund Management Group.

De Putron is resident in Jersey. He is regarded as a very private individual. [4]

Political activities

De Putron is the brother-in-law of Andrea Leadsom, a British Conservative Party member of Parliament and financial services minister who was briefly a contender for the position of leader of the Conservative party and hence Prime Minister in July 2016. Leadsom also worked for De Putron Fund Management in the 1990s. [5] [6] [7] [8]

He has donated money to the Leadsom and the Conservative Party, as well as Eurosceptic think tanks. [9]

De Putron was one of those mentioned in the "Jersey files" which were leaked from Kleinwort Benson to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. [10]

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