Senior Management Team
Guy Hands
Chief Executive Officer and Member of the Investment Advisory Committee
Guy Hands is Terra Firma Capital Partner’s Chief Executive Officer and Founder. Guy sits on the Investment Advisory Committee and General Partners’ boards.
Guy started his career with Goldman Sachs International where he went on to become Head of Eurobond Trading and then Head of Goldman Sachs’ Global Asset Structuring Group. Guy left Goldman’s in 1994 to establish the Principal Finance Group (PFG) at Nomura International plc which acquired 15 businesses with an aggregate enterprise value of €20 billion. Guy led the spin out of PFG to form Terra Firma in 2002.
Guy has an MA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Mansfield College, Oxford University. Guy was elected a Global Leader of Tomorrow of the World Economic Forum in 2000 in recognition of his achievements. Guy is also the President of “Access for Excellence”, a campaign based at Mansfield College, Oxford, which promotes the broadest possible access to higher education in the U.K. He is a Bancroft Fellow of Mansfield College, Oxford and a member of the University of Oxford Chancellor’s Court of Benefactors. Additionally, Guy is a Fellow of the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Scheme.
Guy is married with four children. His interests include photography, gardens and his family.