Andre Arpad Busson was born on 27 January 1963 and is a French financier.
23 Facts About Arpad Busson
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Arpad Busson is the founder and chairman of the EIM Group, a fund of funds company.
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Arpad Busson is active in a number of philanthropic causes around the globe.
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Arpad Busson's father, Pascal Busson, was a former French army officer and Algerian War veteran, who later turned financier.
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Arpad Busson's mother, Florence "Flockie" Harcourt-Smith, was an English former debutante.
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Arpad Busson's parents met in Paris and named their son after the Hungarian-born banker Arpad Plesch, who not only was Florence's step-father, but had been her step-grandfather.
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Some sources have suggested that, while growing up in France, Arpad Busson made early profits selling toothpicks door-to-door, but he was educated in France and at the Institut Le Rosey in Switzerland.
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Arpad Busson entered the world of hedge funds in 1986 working with Dubin Swieca.
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Arpad Busson was later employed as a marketing representative for Paul Tudor Jones's fund Tudor Investments.
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In 1991, Arpad Busson founded the EIM Group to provide fund-of-fund management services to the growing institutional market for hedge funds.
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In November 2001, EIM, an asset management company run by Arpad Busson, was asked by the FBI to help trace the finances of al-Qaida.
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In December 2013, Arpad Busson merged his EIM group with Swiss listed investment company Gottex Fund Management Holdings.
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In July 2015, Arpad Busson was named the next executive chairman of Gottex Fund Management for the interim, following Joachim Gottschalk stepping down from the position and finding a permanent executive chairman.
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Arpad Busson is a proponent of "venture philanthropy", which seeks to multiply the effectiveness of charitable pursuits by applying to them the same management practices which are used in business ventures.
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Arpad Busson is a founding trustee of the children's charity ARK and serves as chairman of its board of directors.
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Arpad Busson held the post of Chairman since the charity's inception.
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Arpad Busson stepped down from that position in 2009 but remains a member of the Board as founding chairman, and as chairman of ARK US.
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The annual Ark Dinner hosted by Arpad Busson sees a range of high-profile individuals attend the event to raise money for the charity.
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Arpad Busson is a patron of the Elton John AIDS Foundation and a founding member of Theodora Children's Trust, a charity which brings music, magic and laughter to children in hospital through visits from performers known as "Giggle Doctors".
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Arpad Busson began a relationship with Australian supermodel Elle Macpherson in 1996.
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Arpad Busson began dating American actress Uma Thurman in 2007 and they announced their engagement in June 2008.
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In January 2017, Thurman and Arpad Busson began a custody battle for their daughter.
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In 2012, Arpad Busson sold Andy Warhol's portrait Mao for $12 million at Phillips in New York.