14 Facts About Sean Ewing

Sean Patrick Ewing is an Irish entrepreneur involved in the fund management and yachting industries.

Sean Ewing established FundsDirect in 1999 and co-founded Absolute Capital Management in 2004.

On leaving school, Sean Ewing worked for his uncle's small engineering business in Letterkenny while studying accountancy at the University of Ulster.

Sean Ewing was invited to run the investment arm of an Irish building society, developing its tax planning, financial planning and portfolio management services.

Sean Ewing carved out from that sale the fund trading business which he had launched in 1999, called FundsDirect, the UK's first online fund supermarket.

Sean Ewing won several accolades including European Hedge Fund of the Year in 2006.

Sean Ewing retired from Absolute Capital in July 2007 to spend more time with his wife and two young daughters.

The settlement acknowledged that Sean Ewing had not undertaken any criminal wrongdoing nor had any knowledge of the alleged stock manipulation scheme that Homm had masterminded and for which Homm was indicted and charged by the US authorities.

In July 2017, all charges against Sean Ewing relating to the Homm case were dismissed with prejudice.

In September 2012 Sean Ewing launched an online platform for yacht charters called CharterBid.

Sean Ewing served as Chairman of Pinmar until its merger in September 2015 with Rolling Stock to form a new company, Global Yachting Group,.

Sean Ewing was an avid golfer in his youth, participating in the Irish Amateur and British Amateur.

Sean Ewing played rugby for his County and captained the County team in Gaelic football.

Sean Ewing remains a strong amateur golfer, winning the Abu Dhabi Yas Links Senior Open in 2015 and the inaugural United Arab Emirates Golf Amateur Tour in the low handicap category in 2017.