Stanley Fink, Baron Fink - Biography

Stanley Fink, Baron Fink (born 15 September 1957) is a British hedge fund manager, the former CEO and deputy chairman of the Man Group plc.

Educated at Manchester Grammar School and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, Fink worked for Citibank before the Man Group, where he rose to be CEO from 2000 to 2007. Fink has been described as the "godfather" of the UK hedge fund industry and has been credited with building the Man Group up to its current status as a FTSE 100 company and the largest listed hedge fund company in the world. He was ranked 698th in the Sunday Times Rich List 2008 with a personal fortune of £118 million. In September 2008 it was announced that Fink would come out of retirement to act as the chief executive of International Standard Asset Management (Isam) in a partnership with Lord Levy. In January 2009 he was appointed co-treasurer of the Conservative Party. In September 2009 he became chairman of the hedge fund-backed Academy sponsor Absolute Return for Kids.