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William Salomon
William Salomon was born in London in 1957 and educated at the Lycée Français de Londres and Westminster. He went on to study Law at Magdalene College, Cambridge. Subsequently he trained at Brown Shipley & Co. in London and Brown Brothers Harriman, New York, during which period he continued his education, obtaining a Masters in Law at Cambridge.
Following a period in banking he studied at the Inns of Court School of Law and was called to the Bar as a member of the Inner Temple in the summer of 1986. He has been a director of a number of public companies in the UK and abroad whose activities include steel trading in Central Africa, production of bio-pharmaceuticals in Central Europe, and engineering in the UK. He has also sat on the board of a number of investment companies.
In 1999 he sold Rea Brothers to Close Brothers, whom he assisted with the transition, becoming Deputy Chairman of the asset management division. Subsequently he created Hansa Capital, a new fund management company emphasising strategic asset management.
He remains a director of Hansa Trust, a UK listed investment trust, Ocean Wilsons Holdings, a publicly listed company with significant maritime trading interests in Brazil; and is a director of a number of investment companies. He is also a director of Young Enterprise, the UK’s largest education charity, promoting business skills and entrepreneurship amongst students.
He is a German citizen as well as being British, and retains strong connection with his family's home city of Hamburg. Married with two children, he currently lives in West London and on the Dorset/Somerset borders. |
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