Busson Arpad is a financier and philanthropist. Founder and chairman of the EIM Group hedge fund and ARK charity foundation. He is widely known for his successful financial career in the investment business and large-scale charitable activities. Busson's fortune is estimated at $ 150 million. Popular media persona, playboy and showman. He gained great media fame thanks to his relationship with Hollywood stars of the first magnitude - Uma Thurman, Christine Scott Thomas and the Australian model El MacPherson.
Busson Arpad: biography
Arpad Arki Busson was born on January 27, 1963 in France, in Boulogne-Billancourt - the western suburbs of Paris. Arpad's father, Pascal Busson, is a soldier in the French army and a veteran of the Algerian war. Arpad graduated from Institut Le Rosey (Rolle, Switzerland). He worked as a nurse in the French army. He later said that strict army discipline brought him the character of a winner.
After demobilization, he first lands on the front pages of the yellow French press thanks to a widely circulated novel with the popular American actress Farrah Fossett. In 1981 he emigrated to the United States. He works in New York as a real estate broker. In 1986, he began to engage in investment funds. Arpad Busson has three children - two sons from their first marriage with an Australian model and actress Elle Macpherson and a daughter from marriage with Uma Thurman.
EIM Group
In 1991, Busson Arpad founded the EIM Group, which began to grow rapidly and develop. So, in 1995, the Busson Foundation had only 7 employees with a capitalization of $ 100 million, but already in 2005 the EIM Group staff consisted of 153 people working in seven different countries, including Hong Kong (China).
In December 2006, the fund had ten billion dollars worth of assets under the management of Mr. Busson. In 2013, due to crises in the financial market, EIM Group was merging with the Swiss investment company Gottex Fund Management Holdings.
ARK
The second professional aspect of a millionaire is charity. Busson Arpad is the founder and trustee of the Children's Charity Fund ARK (Absolute Return for Kids). It provides charitable support to children affected by violence, abuse, disability, disease and poverty.
ARK Charity Fund finances and manages projects in the field of education and healthcare aimed at improving the lives of children in Eastern Europe, South Africa and the UK. In 2001, Prince William and Kate Middleton, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, attended a charity dinner in honor of the tenth anniversary of the ARK Foundation . The dinner party welcomed over 1,000 guests. The fund managed to raise £ 18 million that day.
Popularity
Below in the photo - Arpad Busson with Uma Thurman, a solemn engagement and a loud divorce process with which thundered the whole world of show business. A born lover is a regular in the socialites. His dizzying affair with Australian model El MacPherson and his fast-moving relationship with Christine Scott Thomas hit the front pages of western tabloids.
A photo of the cheerful, energetic handsome Busson next to the first beauties of the planet graced the front pages of world-famous newspapers and magazines. In 2006, according to Tatler magazine, Arpad Busson was named the seventh most popular media person at a party in the United Kingdom.
Now the millionaire, along with his new passion Christine Scott Thomas, lives in London and cannot imagine his life without this woman and this city. Rumor has it that Christine is like two drops of water like Busson's mother - Florence Flockie Busson, and the capital of England - his heart and home. The man says the following: “London for me is a real place of power, some incredible mystical affection ... I don’t know the reason why I could leave here.”